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  • New law pits guns vs. grizzlies in national parks

    Ken Cole

    Are we going to see a spike in grizzly deaths due to this new law? The new gun law which allows people to carry guns in National Parks will be put to the test this year as people take to the backcountry of Yellowstone, Grand Teton, and Glacier. Will there be an increase in grizzly…

  • Colorado scraps effort on sheepherder wages

    Ken Cole

    Looking for a great career? Do you want a sheepherder’s job? Look for yourself and you can make a whopping $650 – $750 a month! No, that’s right now, not some time in the future like 1950! Type in the word “sheepherder” on the Idaho Works job search page and see for yourself: https://labor.idaho.gov/idahoworks/es/jobsearch/default.aspx It’s…

  • Alaska Board of Game nominee cites Bible as he skins a wolf

    Ralph Maughan

    (VIDEO): Legislature To Vote On Confirmation April 9- I’m on vacation, but this item on Huffington Post was too good to pass up. It is just pathetic that a person like this could rise to a position of overseeing wildlife management in such an important place as Alaska. Story on Al Barette. Huffington Post.

  • The Privatization of Wildlife

    Ken Cole

    How Ted Turner Scored Yellowstone’s Bison Herd A good overview of the buffalo issue and how they continue to be persecuted by Montana’s livestock industry and how the buffalo from the quarantine feasibility study ended up going to Ted Turner. The Privatization of Wildlife: How Ted Turner Scored Yellowstone’s Bison Herd AlterNet / By Joshua…

  • Judge scolds WA for allowing grazing in state wildlife management areas

    Ralph Maughan

    WWP wins again as state judge can find not one benefit for wildlife in state cow grazing of state wildlife areas- We have written a number of times about the recent politically inspired introduction of livestock into the Eastern Washington state wildlife areas purchased specifically to help wildlife and water quality. The livestock interests get…

  • At U.S. dinner tables, food may be a fraud

    Ralph Maughan

    Food and Drug Administration pressured to combat rising ‘food fraud’- This is a little bit marginal to what we usually discuss (well maybe not), but it is certainly irritating to the consumer. Fraud also puts pressure on the honest producer to cut corners or worse. “Organic foods” are also of no guarantee if fraud is…

  • Boise, Idaho residents may approve more money to conserve The Foothills

    Ralph Maughan

    Despite recession, protecting Foothills is popular- Time for new levy? Many Boiseans are ready, again, to pay for Foothills open space. By Cynthia Sewell. Idaho Statesman.-

  • All Idahoans should shoulder costs of wildlife

    Ralph Maughan

    Idaho Mountain Express says hunters and fishermen need to help in paying the expenses- This editorial certainly makes sense to me. However, I think we will find opposition to this plan from two interesting forces — wildlife watchers and hunters.  The first is easiest to explain. An unknown number, but probably quite a few watchers,…

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Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

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