The Wildlife News

November 2010

  • Hunting and Predators–does it work?

    Ralph Maughan

    George Wuerthner questions whether hunting predators solves human conflicts with them- Wuerthner argues that a lot of the arguments in favor of hunting predators fail to take into account the contradictory effects of sport hunting them, such as fewer wolves than before the hunt but distributed in more (but smaller) wolf packs might kill more…

  • Idaho business group backs plan to move oversized loads on U.S. Highway 12

    Ralph Maughan

    “Business Group?”  You can bet this group is pure astroturf! Stung by grassroots opposition in North Idaho and Montana to turning U.S. Highway 12 into an industrial highway to haul oversized oil equipment to Canada, a so-called business group has been formed. If you go to their web site, it seems to be associated with…

  • Wyoming Water Development Commission against proposed Green River dam

    Ralph Maughan

    Commission calls it “too expensive, unnecessary and bad for recreation and the environment”- This proposal is so obnoxious I couldn’t believe it was real the first time I heard about it. This is a world class fishing river and the reservoir would cut off the famed pronghorn migration route from the Red Desert to Grand…

  • In Canada Sage grouse on Path to Extinction

    Brian Ertz

    The Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan are losing sage grouse fast.  So fast, that the birds may disappear entirely from the Canadian landscape. Industry blamed for bird’s demise – Sage grouse on path to extinction – Edmonton Journal Unrestrained gas development in southern Alberta could drive the sage grouse to extinction in this province…

  • Coral, Marine-Life Devastation Near BP Oil Spill Indicates Much Worse Long-Term Damage Than Feds Had Admitted

    Ken Cole

    Profound changes to the entire ecology of the Gulf This is part of what makes Obama/Salazar appear tone deaf to what occurred during the Gulf Oil Spill and I think it played a big part in people’s loss of faith in his administration and big losses seen in the Congress by Democrats. Rather than using…

  • Feds delay decision on Idaho wolf killing

    Ken Cole

    Predetermined outcome? Brian Kelly, the new director of the USFWS office in Boise, states that Idaho’s Lolo Zone 10(j) wolf killing proposal has been put on hold so that the agency can conduct a NEPA review. This is good news but I’m betting that they will try to figure out how to get out of…

  • Proposed bill would strip feds of wolf authority within Montana

    Ken Cole

    Another temper tantrum from the reactionaries in Montana. State Sen. Joe Balyeat, R-Bozeman is planning on reintroducing a bill which claims that the Federal government has no right to manage wolves in Montana. This contradicts numerous court rulings and would most certainly cause the state its present ability to manage wolves and further put any…

  • The snowmobile issue in Yellowstone Park has died down

    Ralph Maughan

    It’s still there, but rules have changed, use patterns changed and the economy too- In a feature article in New West, journalist Brodie Farquhar looks at the changes over times. Snowmobiling in Yellowstone: Past and Present

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Edward Abbey

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Jim Fowler

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