Ralph Maughan
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Inevitable result of using private donations to make up for congressional funding shortfalls? Tossing empty water bottles into the Grand Canyon is just the kind of thing people hate to see, but it happens all the time anyway. About a third of the trash is empty convenience water bottles. As a result, the Park began…
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October 2011 update on the Oregon Wolf Program- There is an excitement about the recovery of wolves in Oregon, much as it was in the early day of Idaho and Montana before local reporters found it easier to write a story about a dead cow than the restoration of our wildlife and wild country. In…
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Trio of alleged poachers will have to make a high bail- Tasmanians? !! They are thought to have been doing this kind of thing for some time. It’s just that the elk incident got them arrested. More charges might follow. “Down under poaching suspects arrested, jailed.” By Evin Oneale. The Idaho Department of Fish and…
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People just won’t be quiet about this oil company slash at the planet and America- Developing the Alberta tar sands keeps getting more and more controversial. First it was the pits and the megaloads, but now the anger has shifted to the Keystone XL pipeline that would bring the said-to-be toxic syncrude from Alberta to…
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Highway 12 application is not abandoned, but might be dead for practical purposes- Imperial oil, which is the Canadian version of Exxon-Mobil, has underscored what may be their abandonment of their controversial efforts to truck gigantic loads (hence “megaload”) up the scenic, narrow Clearwater and Lochsa River canyons into Montana and from there a controversial…
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Will either side win the hearing? The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission will discuss the proposed state wolf plan and hold a public hearing. The state plan calls for 15 breeding pairs of wolves in the state for 3 years running before a state delisting can happen. About 2/3 of the land area in Washington…
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Niemeyer’s Memoir Wolfer Addresses The Societal Hatred Of Lobos- Among those who follow the wolf controversy most are now familiar with the name “Carter Niemeyer.” He is one of the few who walks right down the middle, which nowadays likely means he gets it from both sides. Todd Wilkinson produces the Wildlife Art Journal has…
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Latest chapter in a thick book of controversy over hunt is being written- The inclusion of most of the area inside Grand Teton National Park (the valley portion) happened after a long and bitter controversy. The present boundary of the Park was established in 1950 after significant concessions to the usual opponents of change in…