April 2008

  • Many Montana landowners trying to lock out public hunting, while private hunting continues.

    Ralph Maughan

    I like this editorial in the Great Falls Tribune, namely that if you post your land “no hunting,” that should mean no hunting, period. It should not mean “no hunting for the general public, but hunting for those who pay the landowner. Landowners absolutely do not own the wildlife that live on or cross their…

  • Bush's recent climate speech, annotated

    Ralph Maughan

    President Bush recently gave a speech announcing a new and friendlier Administration policy on climate change, or at least it was presented that way. Closer analysis shows the speech had a lot of problems. The [Annotated] Climate Speech. By Andrew C. Revkin. New York Times. Dan Froomkin of the Washington Post was not impressed either.…

  • Deal could limit killing of park bison

    Ralph Maughan

    Deal could limit killing of park bison. Purchase of grazing rights from CUT ranch would create corridor for migrating animals. By Matthew Brown. Associated Press. Finally! This is a good thing. The questions is, is it a little bit good or really good?

  • 3 initiatives proposed in Montana to protect public wildlife

    Ralph Maughan

    We have to wish this follow good luck on these. It is very difficult to get an initiative on the ballot without paid signature gatherers, although no impossible. About 4 years ago, a Montana ballot initiative did successfully do away with the notorious elk shooting enclosures so common in adjacent Idaho. It also strongly reduced…

  • No Charges Filed in Wolf Killing Near Ashton, Idaho

    Ralph Maughan

    No Charges Filed in Wolf Killing Near Ashton, Idaho. LocalNews8 Update: The first Man to Legally Shoot a Wolf Tells His Story. LocalNews8 What this means is that Idaho’s wolves are not much better protected than Wyoming’s. This all came from the law slippped through the Idaho legislature on the very day of delisting, Feb.…

  • Important Bison News release

    Ralph Maughan

    Maybe Montana’s governor is going to finally do something. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 CONTACT: Sarah Elliott 406-444-9725 MEDIA ADVISORY Governor, Yellowstone Park Superintendent to Make Announcement about Interagency Bison Management Plan – Tomorrow at Gallatin Airport (HELENA) – Governor Brian Schweitzer and Yellowstone Park Superintendent Suzanne Lewis will make a historic announcement…

  • Fernie, B.C. opposes massive development just north of Montana border

    Ralph Maughan

    Here is some good news. Back to the long-running controversy over massive coal and coal methane development just north of the Montana border in the wild country of British Columbia near Glacier National and Waterton National Parks . . . Fernie, B.C. officials pass resolution opposing methane development. By Susan Gallagher. AP.

  • Time to CUT a deal [on bison]

    Ralph Maughan

    Time to CUT a deal. For hordes of Yellowstone bison, the difference between life and death is a herd of cattle on land owned by the Church Universal and Triumphant. Buying out the church’s interests might just let the buffalo roam. By: Patrick Klemz.  Missoula Independent. This is about the proposed deal with the Church…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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