Ralph Maughan
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The days of Disney-like wildlife film documentaries may be over- Better equipment (that means digital) and perhaps a new breed of wildlife cinematographers are serving to make what the public sees more real. This is very hard because real might not look realistic to audiences raised on special effects. Cinematographers also depend on a number of…
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Is there any real news in this story, or is it speculation over a minor matter? There is a journalistic adage, “if it bleeds, it leads.” And near Jospeph, Oregon, in the NE corner of the state, we learn from the Oregonian newspaper on the other side of the state that a mule might have bled.…
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The next bloody bag of “mystery meat” from overseas could contain a virus that will ravage our native wildlife population or indeed ravage us- “Bush meat” is the name euphemistically given for things killed in the (generally African) “bush,” and consumed by hard pressed natives who either don’t care or can’t be choosy about what…
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Narrow focused Chief of Alaska Fish and Game Wildlife Chief’s resignation cause for rejoicing among many- Corey Rossi is the kind of guy wildlife biologists don’t like. He had a narrow focus on big game hunting and what he thought would result in the maximum production of moose, caribou and a handful of other hunted…
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Like so many alternative energies, the negative side effects are enormous- People are getting wise to corn ethanol for fuel. It depletes the food supply both directly by using corn for energy fuel and indirectly by raising the price of corn and so increasing the demand for corn substitutes and their price too. It increases…
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Most people know the inspiring story of the salmon. Hatched in the gravel of a rushing mountain stream, the smolts are pulled by the waters downstream past logjams, lethal crevices in the rock, and sometimes into side pools from which there is no escape. Mile-after-mile, sometimes many hundreds of miles, the river grows but nowadays…
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More than 90 percent white-tail deer suddenly dead along a 100-mile stretch of the Milk River- Carried by biting midges, EHD kills within a couple days. This epidemic began in late summer. The organism also kills Mule deer, bighorn sheep, elk and pronghorn. White-tailed deer are hit the worst, however. Local outfitters and officials says it…
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Finding where the mackinaw spawn via transmitter should help zero in on them- We recently ran a story on the need for more money for Yellowstone Park to get ahead in their battle against the non-native, illegally planted lake trout that have all but wiped out cutthroat trout from Yellowstone Lake. One of the most…