June 2008
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Good for this basically Republican group, the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership. News release from TRCP. “TRCP Sues Interior Department over Mismanaged Wyoming Energy Project. Multiple violations of federal law drive sportsmen’s group to action on Pinedale Anticline, currently targeted for greatly expanded drilling and development” Matthew Brown’s AP story. Group sues to block drilling.
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Project seeks peace among sheep and wolves. Diverse group says collaboration could be a model for other wolf-occupied areas. By Jason Kauffman. Idaho Mountain Express Staff Writer. This high profile project is a semi-official attempt to keep both sheep and the very popular Phantom Hill wolf pack alive. The pack’s territory is mostly in the…
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Below are the most recent reports put out by Idaho Fish and Game and Montana, Fish, Wildlife and Parks. Idaho- IDAHO WOLF MANAGEMENT BI-WEEKLY PROGRESS REPORT To: Idaho Fish and Game Staff and Cooperators From: IDFG Wolf Program Coordinator, Steve Nadeau Subject: Status of Gray Wolf Management, Week of May 31 – June 14, 2008…
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The land needs to rest from cattle grazing for several seasons after a range fire, but here they are on the tablelands above Jackpot, Nevada, grazing part of the Murphy burn. The sagebrush area is unburned, the rest is obviously burned. Grazing a burn weakens the newly sprouted perennial grasses — the good grasses —…
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Wikipedia : Pygmy Rabbit
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Some would say it was the massive bad karma from killing more than 1,600 of the nation’s last wild buffalo by state and federal agents—the largest bison slaughter since the white man’s extinction of the millions-strong herds that once roamed the Great Plains. Or maybe it was the on-going and vicious political struggle between Gov.…
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I’m back from the backcountry. I saw a lot of interesting things near the Idaho/Nevada border, especially on the edge of the Owyhee, part of where the giant Murphy fire burned 13 months ago. Lupine in bloom, NW of Devil Creek in the Owyhee country. June 16, 2008. Copyright © Ralph Maughan. This photo was…
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Brucellosis again in Wyoming, and, surprise, surprise, most likely from the nearby elk winter feedlot. Brucellosis in Montana too, for the first time in a long while. it came from either elk or other cattle. So what’s the government’s brucellosis policy directed toward? — killing thousands of bison. Story in the Casper Star Tribune (with usual the…