The Wildlife News

February 2011

  • Dangerous snow: Is foot rot taking hold at the National Elk Refuge?

    Ralph Maughan

    Rot is caused by freeze-thaw cycles in unsanitary snow- We just have to keep pointing out that persistant winter feeding of elk breeds disease. Now 23 elk have been put down for what is thought to be foot rot. No doubt more will die. Foot rot suspected in elk deaths on refuge. By Cory Hatch.…

  • Bighorn get safe highway passage near Hoover Dam

    Ralph Maughan

    Former bighorn death zone, now safe? If you have tried to visit Hoover Dam the last decade, you know it has been one huge traffic jam. However, the dam by-pass and a widened U.S. 93 is now complete and with what looks like great benefits to the desert bighorn sheep the inhabit the very rugged…

  • With Whaling Ships Under Attack, Japan Will Recall Fleet

    Ralph Maughan

    Victory !! “Japan will cut short this year’s annual whale hunt in the Antarctic Ocean after obstruction by an environmental group largely prevented its ships from killing whales, the government said Friday.” Read about in in the New York Times. By Martin Fackler. – – – – – Earlier in this blog. 11/30/10.  Has the…

  • Nevada Views: Energy development poses challenge to [Nevada] wildlife habitat

    Ralph Maughan

    Wind and solar development could be very destructive to Nevada’s wildlife- Energy development poses challenge to wildlife habitat. By Larry Johnson. Las Vegas Review-Journal. And unsaid is the continuing bad idea of centralized energy generation, even if it is said to be renewable.

  • Rare photo shows 8 cougars on Washington state game trail

    Ralph Maughan

    Unusual proximity of so many mountain lions probably possible because of familial relationships- Several factors probably explain how 8 cougars, very territorial animals, came together to feed on a dead cow on a cliff near Soap Lake, Washington.  The first is that it is winter. Prey are concentrated into a small area and in this…

  • Judge overturns BLM grazing decision

    Ken Cole

    This is what WWP calls “low hanging fruit” For the last several years I have been appealing grazing decision issued by the Ely District of the BLM and, over and over again, the District only considers alternatives which maintain the status quo even when they have identified problems on the allotments that are either caused…

  • Jim Beer's speech in Boise. Anti-wolf, tea party, nullificationist

    Ralph Maughan

    Notes on his speech- I guess by now Beers needs no introduction, but the themes he expresses show the anti-wolf folks are really just part of tea party eruption with their efforts to nullify the laws of the United States. He would make the Southern Confederates of Civil War days proud, IMO. The notes below…

  • Skinned corpse of wolf discovered in Washington State

    Ken Cole

    State won’t say from which pack This is bad news for Washington’s small wolf population but it sounds like the the case of a previous poaching incident from 2009 is still open and progressing. We’ve heard rumors that charges may be filed soon in the poaching of wolves from the Lookout Pack in north central…

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