The Wildlife News

January 2010

  • Wyoming relocated 22 grizzlies in 2009

    Ralph Maughan

    22 were moved, 4 killed, and three put in zoos- State relocates 22 grizzlies. By Gib Mathers. Powell Tribune as reproduced in the Casper Star-Tribune

  • Salazar gets White House OK for run

    Ken Cole

    Interior Secretary Ken Salazar may leave his post to run for Colorado Governor’s post Salazar gets White House OK for run By Michael Riley The Denver Post

  • University of Idaho clears itself of pesky "scientific misconduct" charges

    Brian Ertz

    University of Idaho attempts to save face – instead, loses it further UI professor cleared of “scientific misconduct” – Idaho Statesman Update 1-9-2010. U of I ruling on sheep researcher’s ethics isn’t credible. Opinion of the Magic Valley Times News. It’s probably safe to say Marie Bulgin didn’t kill Kennedy either … but that’s it…

  • WWP & Wolf Recovery Foundation Litigates Big to Protect Wolves in Central Idaho

    Brian Ertz

    ~ by Jon Marvel Friends, On December 31, 2009 Western Watersheds Project and the Wolf Recovery Foundation welcomed the New Year by filing litigation in federal court challenging the federal government’s mismanagement of public lands and wolves in Central Idaho. Read the Associated Press article : Groups Sue to End Idaho wilderness copter landings –…

  • Group launches initiative to ban trapping in Montana

    Ralph Maughan

    Montana Trap-Free Public Lands gathers signatures for ballot initiative- Group launches initiative to ban trapping in Montana. New West Unfiltered By Anja Heister and Connie Poten

  • Wilderness. Wild and free, or to be a surveillance zone?

    Ralph Maughan

    Idaho Fish and Game Proposal defeats the purpose of Wilderness- What could more opposite, animals and people roaming freely in the great outdoors; or struggling through rough country under the never sleeping watch of souless technology, subject to summary execution from the air on the order of distant bureaucrats? That’s what is a stake in…

  • Your average winter day at Cooke City — dead snowmobiler

    Ralph Maughan

    A lot of people snowmobile the high country near Cooke City, MT. This happens every winter, usually more than once- There is no real reason for this story except to remind people of the obvious. Avalanches and dead snowmobilers near Cooke City are as predictable as Old Faithful. The only question is what will the…

  • 2010. Year of the grouse?

    Ralph Maughan

    Yes, the sage grouse is likely to get protection under the Endangered Species Act- Wyoming waits anxiously for federal decision on bird. Year of the grouse? By Dustin Bleizeffer. Casper Star-Tribune energy reporter. . . .  an amazing quote! “Industry and conservation leaders alike seem to agree that the restrictions of such a listing would…

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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

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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