The Wildlife News

February 2008

  • Idaho environmental pioneer Ernie Day dies

    Ralph Maughan

    This from Rocky Barker’s blog today, Idaho environmental pioneer Day dies.. I’m sad to learn of the passing of Ernie Day. Ernie taught me that premature compromise with the resource extraction industry never protected anything. I remember his anger when he found us sitting around in one of the early, and of course unproductive meetings…

  • Idaho Conservation League scolds Otter for bighorn sheep policy

    Ralph Maughan

    ICL scolds Otter for bighorn sheep policy. Environmental group calls it a ‘top down approach’. By Matt Christensen Times-News writer. The governor’s bighorn sheep policy is supposed by announced Feb. 15.

  • Wildlife showing strains of winter [in south central Idaho]

    Ralph Maughan

    This is surly true a lot of other places too with the deep snows, . . . and we should remember the vast wildfires that burned not just summer range, but winter range as well last year. Wildlife showing strains of winter. Deep snows are pushing big-game species into harm’s way. By Jason Kauffman. Idaho…

  • Sublette County, WY supports Green River dam

    Ralph Maughan

    A stupid program designed to help a tiny number of people in a vain attempt to “help to safeguard the County’s economic and cultural viability” (the purpose, according to the County Commissiors). If these people wanted to safeguard their economic and cultural viability, they should have opposed the massive natural gas industrialization of Sublette County.…

  • Wolf Tales (in the rural West)

    Ralph Maughan

    Felice Pace argues that fear of predators in the rural West is real due to constant propaganda. Wolf Tales. Goat, a High Country News blog. I think Pace is right. Based on my long experience in Idaho, while there are those who stand out in any community, faint-heartedness seems to be the norm in many…

  • When Grizzlies Ruin Eden, Moose Take to the Road

    Ralph Maughan

    Dr. Joel Berger has become notable for his research on Greater Yellowstone moose. In this interview with the New York Times he talks about how the growing presence of grizzly bears in the Grand Teton NP area is related to, may result in moose moving closer to roads to escape grizzly bear predation on their…

  • Wyoming Stock Growers Association backs bill to prevent Wyoming Game and Fish from holding grazing leases

    Ralph Maughan

    This is another attempt by this powerful livestock interest group to lock Wyoming Game and Fish into their awful feeding regime, keeping Wyoming elk like livestock in during the winter months. Story in Wyomingfile Network. By Brodie Farquhar. Note that Wyomingfile is a new experiment in news coverage in Wyoming. It looks like an important…

  • Little sign of wolves in Lower Michigan

    Ralph Maughan

    Michigan has a fairly large recovered wolf population (over 500 wolves), but essentially all live in the UP, that part of the state which, geographically speaking, is upper Wisconsin. Despite reports of wolves in Lower Michigan, the Michigan DNR finds them so scattered they are stopping intensive monitoring for wolves in that part of the…

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