The Wildlife News

March 7, 2008

  • Montana biologist revokes his claim that white-tailed jackrabbits have disappeared from Greater Yellowstone

    Ralph Maughan

    Montana biologist revokes his claim that white-tailed jackrabbits have disappeared from Greater Yellowstone. Casper Star Tribune. By Matthew Brown. According the the article, Dr. Jim Halfpenny of Gardiner has reported a lot of jackrabbit sign inside Yellowstone Park on the northern range. Five other biologists also reportedly contacted Dr. Joel Berger who had made the…

  • The True Cost of Brucellosis

    Ralph Maughan

    Robert Hoskins has a very good guest column in New West today (Feb. 7, 2008). The True Cost of Brucellosis. I fixed the link. RM

  • Wyoming budgets $2.5 million for wolf management

    Ralph Maughan

    It’s just amazing from a benefit/cost standpoint (assuming wolves have no benefits). Wolves do maybe $200,000 damage and state appropriates more than ten times that to monitor them, collar them and kill them, and of course give oh so generous reimbursement (7x) to livestock operators who are lucky enough to have a wolf kill a…

  • Rocky Barker: Federal predator-killing agency faces new attacks

    Ralph Maughan

    Barker thinks cutting funds to Wildlife Services (WS) is “low hanging fruit.” I don’t think it will be that easy. They have been very resilient in the past 80 years. He also argues that in the Southwest, WS is viewed as a barrier to wolf recovery not just by wolf conservationists, but by state wildlife…

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