Jonathan Ratner

  • Book Recommendations

    Jonathan Ratner

    Two book recommendations have come in: SAGEBRUSH EMPIRE: How a Remote Utah County Became the Battlefront of American Public Lands by Jonathan P. Thompson San Juan County, Utah, contains some of the most spectacular landscapes in the world, rich in culture and history. But it’s also long been plagued with racism, bitterness, and politics as…

  • The Wildlife News Wants to Hear From You!

    Jonathan Ratner

    If you have come across an excellent book or very important article or study on a topic of interest to readers of The Wildlife News, send us your review of the book with your photo, or a link to the article or study. The Editor

  • Time for some truth on the BLM’s ‘conservation’ rule

    Jonathan Ratner

    Editor’s Note: For those of you not in Montana, you may not be familiar with the editorials of George Ochenski. George Ochenski was an environmental and tribal lobbyist at the Montana legislature for 22 years and and wrote, funded and passed many of the significant environmental bills in Montana during those decades. He is Montana’s…

  • I = P x T x E – Part 1

    Jonathan Ratner

    Impacts are Equal to Population multiplied by Tools multiplied by Energy available to drive those Tools Editors Note: The Wildlife News has a history of tackling difficult and sometimes uncomfortable or disturbing topics. This may be one for you… For those of us who care about our public lands and wildlife, we need to pull…

  • Chronic illness is depressing bighorn sheep numbers, new study suggests

    Jonathan Ratner

    Paper from University of Wyoming PHd student sheds fresh light on a question that’s vexed biologists for decades. By Christine Peterson, WyoFile.com Wandering through the rolling foothills of the Wind River Range near Dubois, lives a bighorn sheep herd famous for both its abundance and scarcity.  A herd that once helped reseed bighorn sheep populations…

  • A Wyoming mule deer herd is so riddled with CWD it could nearly vanish

    Jonathan Ratner

    Editor’s note: The following is republished from WyoFile, an excellent source of in-depth reporting on Wyoming issues. by Mike Koshmrl of www.WyoFile.com June 24, 2024 Preliminary findings have biologists worried for superinfected deer herd. There’s hope research could help guide chronic wasting disease management — if the public lets it happen. WIND RIVER VALLEY—Biologists Tucker…

  • Invasion of the Pinyon – Juniper: Part II

    Jonathan Ratner

    I had a few minutes to polish and varnish a group of new samples I had collected on my last trip down to southern Utah, so I though I would provide a few examples, for those of you who run around P-J habitat. These three examples are from San Juan County, UT. This little pinyon…

  • The Invasion of the Pinyon Juniper

    Jonathan Ratner

    Back in 2017, the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, the supposed ‘crown jewel’ of the BLM’s National Landscape Conservation System proposed a massive pinyon-juniper (P-J) removal project in the Skutumpah area. The BLM announced that the project’s purpose was to remove post-European settlement ‘invading’ P-J and create sage grouse habitat. Given my experience that virtually…

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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.”

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