The Wildlife News

November 2009

  • Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team — raise GYE grizzly mortality limits?

    Ralph Maughan

    IGBC has hard time understanding Judge Molloy ruled against them not because of grizzly mortality, but lack of food for grizzly in the area- Perhaps the bear population could withstand more deaths; and, hey why not acquiesce with what is already happening? Bear bureaucrats could call that “adaptive management.” However, Judge Molloy didn’t relist the…

  • Schneider’s updates on Tester’s Wilderness bill

    Ralph Maughan

    Over at New West you can follow the Montana Wilderness controversy closely- Yesterday Ken Cole posted Senator Tester Betrays Montana Wilderness, a sharply critical opinion piece written by Brian Peck. Bill Schneider has been following Montana’s 30 year Wilderness controversy for some time in his columns at New West. His many updates give folks a…

  • Wyoming legislation might require GYE backcountry users to have bear spray

    Ralph Maughan

    Spike in unhappy grizzly encounters in Greater Yellowstone could result in bill- While pepper spray isn’t always the answer in an encounter with a grizzly, most often it is with lots of benefits to humans and bears. Bear spray bill on the way. Proposal would require permitted backcountry users in griz country to carry pepper…

  • 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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