The Wildlife News

September 2010

  • Tone down the rhetoric: Ranchers will still get money for livestock losses

    Ralph Maughan

    Defenders of Wildlife answers Butch Otter’s “political grandstanding”- The writer of the Defender’s response is Rodger Schlickeisen, president of Defenders of Wildlife. Ranchers will still get money for livestock losses. Rodger Schlickeisen guest editorial in the Idaho Statesman. I can’t help but compare Otter’s red-faced response on this relatively small amount of money to his…

  • The awful Spread Creek Dam in Grand Teton NP to be removed

    Ralph Maughan

    Gradual purchase of private lands made the dam pointless- You have probably crossed Spread Creek if you visited Grand Teton National Park. It is a broad swath of gravel with a tiny stream running through the sun-baked rocks. I didn’t know the cause of this for many years. Finally I was shown the crumbling old…

  • State scrambling to revive wolf hunt

    Ken Cole

    …..and GUT the Endangered Species Act. The details of the overreach. The States are asking their congressional delegations to GUT the Endangered Species Act by changing the language of the Act so that it would allow species to be delisted based on state boundaries. In other words, it would allow the USFWS to use arbitrary,…

  • Cow Country: The Rise of the CAFO in Idaho

    Ken Cole

    As mega-dairies and feedlots make up more of Idaho’s dairy industry, the conflicts between people and cattle are increasing Guess what.  There’s shit in the air and water around these facilities and people are getting sick. “High nitrate levels in water can cause brain damage in infants and has been associated with reproductive problems and…

  • Pilot and two biologists killed in helicopter crash in Kamiah

    Ken Cole

    They had been conducting salmon redd counts on the Selway River Sad news. I met Larry once or twice while working for IDFG. My condolences. Pilot and two biologists killed in helicopter crash in Kamiah KREM 2 News

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