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  • Ranchers say they are being squeezed out on Bighorn National Forest

    Ralph Maughan

    This came from the Billings Gazette and was republished today in Casper Star Tribune. Ranchers say they are being squeezed. It is true the Western Watersheds Project is trying to establish the rule of law on the Bighorn National Forest, and if you have have read the posts of Robert Hoskins about the defective nature…

  • Battle over bighorns: State seeks solutions to domestic vs. wild sheep conflict

    Ralph Maughan

    Here is another story on effort by the woolgrowers to take over and divert bighorn sheep management in Idaho. It is on the front page of the Magic Valley Times News today. I’d judge the article to be just fair in its accuracy. Battle over bighorns. State seeks solutions to domestic vs. wild sheep conflict.…

  • Pneumonia strikes Montana bighorn sheep

    Ralph Maughan

    The entire herd in the Elkhorn Mountains near Helena might die. Once again the suspect is domestic sheep (this is according to the article below). Pneumonia strikes bighorn sheep. By Eve Byron. Helena Independent Record.

  • Salt Lake Tribune: Sayonara cyanide: Poison land mines should be banned

    Ralph Maughan

    This is today’s SLC Tribune editorial against continuing use of ranchers getting to use cyanide and 1080.

  • Battle over Bighorn, part II

    Ralph Maughan

    Battle over Bighorn: Opposing views on disease and economics. This is part II. By Sven Berg. South Idaho Press – – – – – – I posted part I earlier. Here is it again. Battle over Bighorn, part I. – – – – – – There is more on this on the Western Watersheds Project…

  • Battle over Bighorn

    Ralph Maughan

    Battle over Bighorn. By Sven Berg. South Idaho Press. The first in a 2 part series. These bighorn issue should be noted by all those who write about predators and hunting because it shows the ranchers are not just anti-wolf, but against any wildlife they think hurts their bottom line. I recall an old bumper…

  • Survival of bighorns in Tetons a mystery

    Ralph Maughan

    This is from the Jackson Hole News and Guide. It’s about how 100 bighorn sheep struggle to survive in the heights of the Tetons. It is a marginal existence, but the destruction of the bighorns of the Snake River Range and other mountain chains to the south and southeast, which would provide better habitat is…

  • Rocky Barker: Bighorn-domestic sheep conflict could blow up soon in Idaho

    Ralph Maughan

    Barker has an amazing story this morning . . . the “Cassia County Board of Commissioners voted to ask [Butch] Otter to relocate bighorn sheep from the South Hills near Twin Falls because of conflicts with domestic sheep.” Of course, Otter can’t legally order this. The Idaho Fish and Game Commission can. They are supposed…

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