November 2009

  • First Idaho wolf hunt zone closes as quota is reached

    Ralph Maughan

    Quota of five wolves has been filled for the Upper Snake wolf hunting area- This is in Eastern Idaho, in the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem. The wolves killed may or may not have wolves that usually inhabit Yellowstone Park. Here is the Idaho wolf quota area map. Nov. 3. E. Idaho wolf zone closed as hunters…

  • Grizzlies home on range – again

    Ralph Maughan

    For all those discouraged folks out there, I think this f- – – – ing wonderful! Grizzlies home on range – again. By Karl Puckett. Great Falls Tribune Staff Writer. Is anyone interested that grizzlies are abundant enough and northern Montana empty enough that grizzlies are spilling out onto the plains?

  • Video of "ecofriendly" wind power

    Ralph Maughan

  • Utah: Nuclear power water rights protests triggers public hearing

    Ralph Maughan

    Are local people waking up to the fact that energy development in the remote West lacks the water necessary- The attitude of many interior Western politicians is, and generally has been, that they are happy to be a colony for the rest of the country as long as they can be glorified for a few…

  • Albino black bear moved to Glacier National Park

    Ralph Maughan

    Move was to protect it during the general hunting season- Albino bear moved. Bozeman Chronicle.

  • October was a bad month for grizzly bears in NW Montana

    Ralph Maughan

    October is always bad; this year worse. Even so,  NW Montana grizzly mortality is low compared to that in Greater Yellowstone. It’s pretty clear to me that the Yellowstone grizzly needed to be put back on the list, just as Judge Molloy did. Fortunately, grizzly deaths are down this year in the Greater Yellowstone. Grizzly…

  • Shooting of collared wolves impacts research

    Ralph Maughan

    Game managers may make changes in hunting season for next year- Wow! The stories about the shooting of the Park wolves who happened to be just north of the Park keep coming. This is another one. This one today is by Brett French in the Billings Gazette. Actually we don’t know that this hasn’t happened…

  • Montana: Landowners increasingly shut access to popular spots

    Ralph Maughan

    I see it as a way for our western “royalty” to try to coerce Montana FWP into supporting wildife and fish-harmful plans- The land barons are trying to use hunters to pressure FWP into policies that are harmful to wildlife, but friendly to their private interests. The article says that for access, lots of these…

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