Politics

  • Rex Rammell gets fairly easy sentence for elk poaching conviction

    Ralph Maughan

    Serving as his own attorney, Rammell is convicted by a jury of his peers- After many months and after getting charged with jury tampering (yet to go to trial), former Republican gubernatorial candidate Rex Rammell was convicted of poaching an elk. He was fined $1000 (after the judge suspended $500) and will serve 5 days…

  • Daniel Ashe confirmed by U.S. Senate as the new Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

    Ralph Maughan

    Career professional in agency to assume duties immediately after a long series of Republican “holds” on his nomination- The Fish and Wildlife Service has been led since January 2009 Acting Director Rowan Gould. “Holds” in the U.S. Senate on bills and nominations have become a kind of one-person filibuster. It is becoming difficult for any…

  • New Idaho wolf hunt likely to propose no limit on number of wolves killed

    Ralph Maughan

    No quotas (limits) are expected for hunt except along part of the Idaho/Montana border- Idaho to offer looser wolf hunt rules. By John Miller and Matthew Brown. Associated Press Ever since Butch Otter became Idaho’s governor, it was clear to me and the conservation groups that understand Idaho politics that at some point this would…

  • Idaho Statesman: How to get wildlife watchers to pay?

    Ralph Maughan

    Here is an editorial from the Idaho Statesman on the failure of license fees and game tags to generate enough revenue to manage fish and wildlife in Idaho, especially with the coming cuts in federal aid. Brian Ertz earlier posted a related article and there has already been quite a bit of discussion in this…

  • Did NRA Kill “Guns and Critters” amendment ?

    Brian Ertz

    Lines between Livestock, Sporting and Gun Groups Continue to Blur John Campbell (R-CA), Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Gary Peters (D-MI) co-sponsored the bipartisan Lethal Predator Control Amendment, an amendment t0 H.R. 2112 (the Agriculture appropriations bill), which would have cut Wildlife Service’s $11 million appropriation used for a program that kills predators on behalf of…

  • DeFazio on wildlife service funding

    Brian Ertz

    The Campbell-DeFazio amendment, which would have cut Wildlife Services’ “Livestock Protection” program by $11 Million, failed 132-287. Only 30 Republican’s voted for it.

  • Group urges calls now to defund Wildlife Services

    Ralph Maughan

    Politicians scramble to find cuts. Now said to be chance to gut widely reviled program- Using federal dollars to kill our native wildlife. Economic hard times would say stop that kind of funding. But will it be stopped? Predator Defense knows these federal poisoners and gunners have nine lives, unlike the bobcats and cougar they…

  • White House highlights Desert Tortoise website as ‘government waste’

    Brian Ertz

    Obama willing to waste billions of dollars to destroy the natural environment, less willing to spend a pittance to conserve it In a recent email from Vice President Joe Biden, the White House chose, among the umpteen thousand examples of government waste, a federally funded Desert Tortoise website as its whipping-boy to highlight what it…

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