Author: Ralph Maughan
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Red-tailed’s kee-eeeee-arr is used to represent all raptors, and more- “Cry like an eagle” . . . you can just imagine it as you read the phrase. It must be bold. Maybe it should be the title of a song or a novel. The Colbert Report doesn’t use a real eagle cry. It would be a…
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If 53 are now trapped in “The Hole,” how many will survive? The Jackson Hole News and Guide has reported that 53 pronghorn antelope have been spotted on the National Elk Refuge well after the herd normally migrates out of cold and snowy Jackson Hole, over the Gros Ventre Mountains, and then down southward to…
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Already 6 dogs caught and one grizzly bear- There is probably even more by catch than reported below in Montana’s second wolf trapping season, which just began. In addition to last year’s by catch, wolf traps took a tremendous toll on Yellowstone Park wolves that wandered across the Park’s straight line border. Not reported, it…
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Four-year old grizzly steps in trap on Rocky Mountain Front, Montana- Last year’s wolf trapping season in Idaho and Montana had a horrible by-catch ratio — animals other than wolves were trapped and many of them were injured or died. Anti-wolf mania, as some would call it, continues. Now the first grizzly bear, a bear close…
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Marv Hoyt of Idaho Falls cited for illegally killing 2 elk and wasting the meat- Editorial I must have known Marv Hoyt for over 30 years, and sometimes worked with him on Greater Yellowstone issues. He has always been an avid fly fisher. I knew he hunted too. He was an early volunteer for the…
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About a million nationwide and over a hundred thousand from the Pacific Northwest- The Pacific Wolf Coalition, composed of 29 wildlife conservation, education and protection organizations in California, Oregon and Washington has issued a news release saying they have submitted “101,416 comments to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today favoring continued wolf protections.” In…
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There are a lot of wildlife related stories. Washington Post and Wildlife Services- There have been many efforts to raise public perception of the depredations of the misnamed federal agency “Wildlife Services,” which might have been named that so that folks will confuse it with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service or a state fish…
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