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  • Hoskins on brucellosis

    Ralph Maughan

    Robert Hoskins, one of the best informed people who post to this web site, is, of course, active writing in many publications. Recently he had a good LTE to the Billings Gazette. Brucellosis management has utterly failed. In Google News comments, he follows up on the Montana brucellosis in great detail. There Is No Scientific…

  • More welfare for livestock operators

    Ralph Maughan

    Read this. You can find it at Thomas http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:s3211: Ralph Maughan – – – – – – – S. 3211 To amend the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans’ Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007, to clarify eligibility for livestock indemnity payments. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES June 26, 2008 Mr. BAUCUS…

  • Focus on elk as disease [brucellosis] persists near Yellowstone

    Ralph Maughan

    What an outrage! The officials who speak for this special interest group need to be put in their place. This should be a national campaign issue. Focus on elk as brucellosis persists near Yellowstone. By Matthew Brown, Associated Press Writer. They will have to kill every elk in the Greater Yellowstone, and, of course, every…

  • [Mexican] Wolf recovery can succeed

    Brian Ertz

    Benjamin Tuggle, Southwest regional director of U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) has published an Op-Ed in the Arizona Republic: Wolf recovery can succeed The Op-Ed is released, likely to smooth things over, amidst recent controversy in response to inaction on the part of FWS including at least 2 lawsuits and a recent poll demonstrating…

  • State vets plan to eliminate brucellosis in Yellowstone bison

    Ralph Maughan

    State vets plan to elminate brucellosis in Yellowstone bison. By Alden Downing, Channel 8 television. Billings, MT How f–king stupid can you be and hold an office like this!!?? I debated the Idaho State vet once (a different person than the current one). The guy was dumb as mud, and I’ve not bragging about my…

  • Wyoming's Game and Fish chief doesn't agree with the state vets on brucellosis

    Ralph Maughan

    Brucellosis eradication from Greater Yellowstone currently impossible says Terry Cleveland. By Chris Merrill. Casper Star Tribune. He doesn’t agree with conservation organizations either — closing elk feedlots won’t work.

  • Three-state talks focus on brucellosis strategy. State veterinarians to meet

    Ralph Maughan

    Three-state talks focus on brucellosis strategy. Veterinarians from Montana, Wyoming, Idaho meeting Friday in Helena. By The Associated Press This is a chance for a big change, but where are the wildlife people?  My experience with the state vets is that they are beholden to the cattle industrye. Therefore, they have a very narrow perspective.…

  • Tailpipes, cows expand Idaho's carbon footprint

    Ralph Maughan

    Tailpipes, cows expand Idaho’s carbon footprint. Greenhouse gas emissions grew 30% from 1990 to 2005, thanks mainly to dairy expansion. Idaho Statesman. By Rocky Barker. Part of this “increase” is an accounting change — to include methane gas as well as carbon dioxide. Methane is a very potent greenhouse gas and cattle operations, especially CAFOs…

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