The Wildlife News

October 7, 2010

  • Outdoor recreation: Two-wheeled off-road safer than ATVs

    Ralph Maughan

    Review shows ATV crashes much more likely to kill or injure than dirt bikes- This is probably a big surprise. It is to me. I broke my collarbone on a dirt bike way back in ’84.  I didn’t ride them again. Surprise: Two Wheels Safer Than Four in Off-Road Riding and Racing, Study Finds. ScienceDaily.

  • Wildlife Services Exterminates Over 4.1 Million Animals in 2009

    Brian Ertz

    Agency’s Budget Shrouded from Public     WildEarth Guardians has assembled and is making public statistics regarding “Wildlife Service’s” wildlife slaughter last year. WildEarth Guardians Press Release 10/7/10 WASHINGTON, DC – According to records released today by WildEarth Guardians, “Wildlife Services,” the ironically-named branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, killed more than four million…

  • Wyoming Gray Wolf Recovery Status Report. 9-27 through 10-1

    Ralph Maughan

    Latest report shows NO association between number of wolves in Wyoming and the number of livestock depredations- Wyoming Gray Wolf Recovery Status Report. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Sept. 27 through Oct. 1, 2010 Although the report makes no mention of this, the report includes detailed graphs of wolf population and livestock losses to wolves…

  • Intermountain Forest Association to shut its doors

    Ralph Maughan

    Once powerful Idaho timber lobby calls it quits after 75 years- I remember when this interest group held enormous power, rivaling the livestock associations, although they were not rivals, of course. Timber association will disband after 75 years. By Becky Kramer. Spokesman-Review.

  • Suzanne Lewis, Yellowstone superintendent, to retire

    Ralph Maughan

    Dan Wenk, former interim director of the National Park Service, to oversee Yellowstone- A new superintendent of Yellowstone Park is always an event of major conservation importance. The Park’s super for the last 8 years has been Suzanne Lewis, a person not particularly favored by conservationists. She is retiring. High-ranking park official to take Yellowstone…

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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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