The Wildlife News

June 2010

  • Wolf delisting hearing stalled after attorney faints in courtroom

    Ralph Maughan

    85 protesters show up at courthouse- Wolf delisting hearing stalled after attorney faints in courtroom. KBZK.com

  • Clinton-Era Secretary Blasts Interior; Scientists Say Salazar Should Quit

    Brian Ertz

    Scientists & Conservation Groups: Time for Salazar to step down Clinton-Era Secretary Blasts Interior; Scientists Say Salazar Should Quit featured in the New York Times Read the letter The Gulf Coast disaster is a cataclysmic failure. It’s a failure of insatiable industrial greed. But to leave it at that – to blame BP and demand…

  • Idaho Fish and Game/Wildlife Services targets wolf and her 7 pups 8 months after last depredation.

    Ken Cole

    Blue Bunch Pack near McCall and New Meadows hasn’t killed livestock since October and all other members have been killed It has been nearly 8 months since any member of southwest Idaho’s Blue Bunch Pack killed any livestock yet, on March, 16, members of the Blue Bunch Pack were killed by Wildlife Services under an…

  • Wickiup Wolves?

    Ken Cole

    Are there wolves in the Cascades of Oregon? This story came up in a Google Alert today and the first half of the article talks about radio tagging salmon, an interesting story but the second part of the article talks about an entirely different subject: wolves in the Oregon Cascades. Over the last few years…

  • Crowds expected Tuesday as wolves return to court in Missoula

    Ralph Maughan

    Tomorrow is the big day before Judge Molloy- “”People simplify things,”[Ed] Bangs said. “They’ll say 300 wolves is not enough for recovery, but that’s not the recovery goal. That’s bogus. Or they’ll say the Service promised there’d never be more than 300 wolves. That’s not true either.” Rest of the story in the Missoulian.

  • Stop Alberta oil expansion

    Ralph Maughan

    Stop the slow motion “gulf disaster” of Alberta tar sands oil- Stop Alberta oil expansion. Guest column by Tom Woodbury. Western Watersheds Project. Montana Office. It’s bad news for Idaho and Montana highways, but much more for Montana the world at large.

  • Have you seen interesting wildife news? June 3, 2010

    Ralph Maughan

    Note that this replaces the 10th edition. That edition will now move slowly into the depths of the blog. Please don’t post entire articles here, just the link, title and your comments about the article. Most of these violate copyright law. They also take up too much space.

  • The Ethics of Killing Large Carnivores

    Ken Cole

    Is “bagging a trophy” really an amoral choice? This is a very interesting article that discusses the very core of issues we discuss on this blog.  I thoroughly recommend that you read it as I think it represents how I feel about wildlife, and more specifically large carnivore, management today.  The proponents of trophy hunting…

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