January 2010

  • Great White: Rare worm vs. farmers

    Ken Cole

    The giant Palouse earthworm can’t be found—yet it’s dividing the Palouse An interesting article about an earthworm that hasn’t been seen more than 4 times in the last 100 years. The Palouse is a region of Northern Idaho and Eastern Washington which was predominated by prairie but is now predominated by winter wheat and other…

  • Oregon biologists fear small moose herd may be infected with deadly parasite

    Ken Cole

    Carotid artery worm is one of the suspects The worm is thought to be behind the declines in Wyoming moose populations as well. Oregon biologists fear small moose herd may be infected with deadly parasite By Richard Cockle, The Oregonian

  • Wildlife Services Releases Strategic Plan

    Ken Cole

    Inadequate funding, lack of understanding and support cited in report The agency that touts that it “provides Federal leadership and expertise to resolve wildlife conflicts and create a balance that allows people and wildlife to coexist peacefully“ has released its Strategic Plan for 2010 – 2014. They have a list of “Key Challenges” where they…

  • Landowner group tries to block wind development in Northern Laramie Range

    Ralph Maughan

    Conflicting landowner positions on wind development is scrambling Wyoming politics– If you look at a wind map of the U.S., the Laramie Mountains are perhaps the best wind area in the United States. That doesn’t mean wind gets to override property rights, however. Landowner group tries to block wind development in Northern Laramie Range. By…

  • Montana gets first statewide bighorn sheep plan

    Ralph Maughan

    Montana gets first statewide bighorn sheep plan. AP Here is the plan: Bighorn Sheep Conservation Strategy

  • Bison after rationality about brucellosis. Restoration?

    Ralph Maughan

    The decreasing belief that Yellowstone bison are inherently brucellosis spreaders might open way for plains restoration- Today there is an optimistic article about bison by Daniel Person the Bozeman Chronicle. The bison cause brucellosis in cattle story has been under attack here and many other places now for a long time, and it is clear…

  • Grizzlies in central Idaho is a politically difficult thing

    Ralph Maughan

    Evidence is grizzly restoration would be much easier if some would just migrate in as opposed to reintroduction- This article covers a lot of topics about grizzly recovery, bear tracking, restoration, and politics. Grizzlies in the Bitterroot Mountains politically thorny. By Rob Cheney.  Missoulian

  • Wolf sightings rise in Oregon Cascades!

    Ralph Maughan

    Incredible good news! Wolf sightings on rise in Oregon Cascades. By The Associated Press Note, I updated the link to a longer version of the story.  Ken

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

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

Jim Fowler

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