Ralph Maughan

  • Efforts to sell or give away federal public lands is a freedom issue

    Ralph Maughan

    Privatization or transfer to states would be a massive loss of personal freedom- In politics, it is common to hear that adoption of this or that policy would be a great loss (or gain) for freedom or liberty. Very often such policies do involve economic liberty for some group or business. Other times the policy…

  • Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission mulls delisting Oregon’s small wolf population

    Ralph Maughan

    Action shows fragile nature of state level wolf recovery? Friday in Bend, OR the state’s wildlife and fish commissioners launched a process to delist wolves from Oregon’s State Endangered Species Act. Oregon only has about 80-90 wolves (77 at the end of 2014), but the state rule for delisting wolves mandates the consideration of delisting when the goal…

  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service abandons plan to give ESA protection to bi-state sage grouse

    Ralph Maughan

    Was it political expediency? News release RENO, Nev. – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today abandoned its plan to give Endangered Species Act protection to Mono Basin sage grouse, a small and isolated population of prairie birds in Nevada and California that remain under threat from grazing, habitat loss and mining development. The agency’s decision…

  • Isle Royale wolves down to just three

    Ralph Maughan

    Did winter ice allow most of the wolves to walk off the island, or did they die? For a second winter season in a row Lake Superior froze around Isle Royale National Park. This potentially allows wolves and other land animals to walk over to the island or leave the island. Most winters there is no…

  • Do you have some interesting wildlife news. April 18, 2015

    Ralph Maughan

    It is time to create a new page of “Interesting Wildlife News.”   Please put your wildlife news in the comments below. Do not post copyrighted material, and here is the link to the “old” news of March 24, 2015.

  • States are acting on drones used in hunting

    Ralph Maughan

    A number of states have banned use of drones- Whether by passing a new law or the state wildlife agency making a new rule, the use of drones in hunting is being shot down in the states. Low cost drones continue to infiltrate our lives and the economy, and hunting is no exception. A common…

  • Cruz tries to win the West by taking our public lands

    Ralph Maughan

    Koch Bros. will smile at his attempt to auction off our lands- Ted Cruz has jumped on the billionaire’s land grab wagon by offering a bill requiring the federal government to give away or sell off what he terms “excess lands,” whether they be our national parks, national forests, national wildlife refuges or BLM lands.…

  • Conservationists sue over ‘incidental take’ of grizzlies in Grand Teton N. P.

    Ralph Maughan

    Western Watersheds and Sierra Club say the ‘incidental take’ of 4 bears is wrongly based on an “arbitrary and capricious” analysis by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service- News Release Washington, DC – Conservation groups have filed a legal challenge against two federal agencies for approving the killing of four grizzly bears, a threatened species,…

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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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