The Wildlife News

December 2008

  • Industry likes Salazar at Obama Interior, not greens

    Ralph Maughan

    Daniel Patterson’s blog has found a lot of quotes about Ken Salazar- Industry likes Salazar at Obama Interior, not greens. Daniel’s News and Notes. – – – – – So probably (I hope Buffaloed is right, another trial ballon)  a bad Secretary of Interior, and an EPA chief whose toxics record was so bad she…

  • Greens Send Obama Quick Fix List

    Ralph Maughan

    A list of things that can be done quickly- A lot of these are easy and are on my list. The reception these items get will tell us a lot, after what looks like a “just fair” and maybe pretty poor choice for Interior. Greens Send Obama Quick Fix List. By Bill Schneider. New West

  • Howl boxes help tracking wolves in Selkirk Mountains [Washington State]

    Ralph Maughan

    Howl boxes’ help tracking wolves in Selkirk Mountains. By Becky Kramer, The Spokesman-Review

  • Audio: A BLM insider speaks

    Ralph Maughan

    Bush’s national recreation director tells why he quit- Audio: A BLM insider speaks. Rodger Schmitt talks about why he resigned his position as national recreation director. December 12, 2008 by Emily Steinmetz and Marty Durlin. High Country News. Schmitt confirms your worst fears about how the Bushies ran the agency.

  • Wolves draw fans to Yellowstone in winter

    Ralph Maughan

    Wolf watching generates winter tourism- Wolves draw fans to Yellowstone in the winter. AP

  • Report: ESA decisions were all tainted for five years

    Ralph Maughan

    Julie MacDonald interfered with every ESA decision for political reasons- A high-ranking Interior Department official tainted nearly every decision made on the protection of endangered species over five years, a new inspector general report finds, concluding she exerted improper political interference on many more rulings than previously thought. Julie MacDonald was deputy assistant secretary of…

  • N. Idaho timberland eyed for luxury homes

    Ralph Maughan

    Proposal is one of many showing developers have learned nothing- Although this won’t fly in the current economy, developers around the country are still proposing more of the same for the future when the economy improves. Where I live (Pocatello, Idaho) the local developers are making a big effort to gut the new county land…

  • Obama picks Salazar as Interior secretary

    Ralph Maughan

    Salazar was not first choice of conservationists- I guess I didn’t really need to write that. On the other hand, he is far better than Bush’s secretaries Gale Norton and Dirk Kempthorne, both the absolute bottom of the barrel. We’ll now see if he gets a free hand to choose the assistant secretaries  in DOI…

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Edward Abbey

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

Jim Fowler

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