The Wildlife News

December 2008

  • Interior Update ~ Salazar: Cows AND Condos and oil & guns in parks & big ag …

    Brian Ertz

    The recent rumors that rancher Ken Salazar is a shoe-in at Interior have flipped on its head many of Obama’s most fervent western supporters’ idea of what the President-elect’s campaign promise for big-‘C’ “Change” might mean.  That campaign slogan’s broad-sweeping allegation had many hopeful that a new outlook, an outlook responsive to Obama’s supporters on…

  • The 2nd delisting of wolves may take place this week

    Ralph Maughan

    Here goes nothing again? Nothing except a brief opportunity to slaughter wolves again? Story: Wolves may be delisted — again — this week.  By Chris Merrill. Casper Star-Tribune environment reporter

  • Environmental groups, scientists cheer Obama appointments

    Ralph Maughan

    The cheer in the story is for the Energy, Climate Change, EPA nominations- Environmental groups, scientists cheer Obama appointments. LA Times. By Jim Tankersley and Tom Hamburger

  • PEER says Obama's EPA pick is no good

    Ralph Maughan

    Bush’s EPA criticized Obama’s new EPA choice for her bad record in New Jersey on toxic waste- Likely EPA pick hit for Jersey record. Politico “In a report released this summer, the EPA’s inspector general slammed New Jersey’s failure to clean up several toxic waste sites in a timely manner, and accused the state’s environmental…

  • Did Raum Emanuel Scuttle Grijalva's Nomination?

    Ralph Maughan

    Grijalva didn’t raise enough campaign money for the House Democrats? Did Emanuel Scuttle Grijalva’s Nomination? Daily Kos

  • It looks a lot like Ken Salazar as Secretary of Interior

    Ralph Maughan

    He has cancelled events today, Tuesday and Wednesday- He is a pretty traditional Democratic Party kind of nomination (assuming it is him).  He is a Democratic US Senator from Colorado, but Democrats won’t lose the seat because the Democratic governor has the power to appoint a replacement. Salazar is Hispanic, satisfying a category that was…

  • Grijalva steps up to bat on another Bush Interior ‘midnight regulation’

    Brian Ertz

    Grijalva steps up to the plate and goes to bat against another Bush Interior “midnight regulation” aimed at looting sacred water for the Peabody Western Coal Company while tribes perform spiritual ceremonies. Dang, if you listen close – that sounds like a John Prine endorsement to me !

  • Impacts have hunters howling

    Ralph Maughan

    Articles like this spread misperception- Impacts have hunters howling. Rapid growth of packs, observers say, mirror decline in deer numbers. By Jim Mann, Northwest Daily InterLake. In fact the number of wolves in Montana, including this area are down this year. The number of wolves in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming is no longer growing. For…

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Edward Abbey

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Jim Fowler

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