The Wildlife News

November 3, 2009

  • Report: Barbed Wire Fences Deadly To Sage Grouse

    Brian Ertz

    The impact to sage grouse numbers appears to be very large The thousands and thousands of miles of barbed wire fence chopping up lands throughout the west is bad for wildlife for many reasons. Now, the impact that this installation for livestock production on public lands has to sage grouse is demonstrated in a study…

  • Bear kills militants in Kashmir

    Ralph Maughan

    They were making pudding in the bear’s cave- The bear population is up Kashmir, and it seems for the good. Bear kills militants in Kashmir. By Altaf Hussain. BBC News, Srinagar

  • Senator Tester Betrays Montana Wilderness

    Ken Cole

    Brian Peck Excoriates Senator Tester’s “Wilderness” Bill And The “Environmental” Groups Who Support It. He explains that the “bill would set aside just over 600,000 acres of Wilderness, withdraw current protection from nearly 250,000 acres, and require that 100,000 acres be made available for logging and roading in an already fractured landscape.” Senator Tester Betrays…

  • US House passes amendment banning measurement of livestock-related global warming gases

    Brian Ertz

    We’ve talked about how despite Hamburgers being the ‘Hummers’ of Food in Global Warming, and How Meat, Especially Beef Contributes to Global Warming, big agribusiness and the livestock industry flex their political muscle and are exempted from Meating the Truth every time (like on the Climate Bill). Now, a bill has just passed the U.S.…

  • Wolf supporters dominate Seattle, WA meeting

    Ralph Maughan

    Most favored alternative 3 in the state’s wolf plan- While there seems to be no newspaper story on-line, I have heard from someone who attended the Seattle meeting on the Washington wolf plan. Wolf supporters dominated the meeting. Most of them favored alternative three, which is generally thought to be the alternative most favorable to…

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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.”

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