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  • The Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund wants to kill thousands of Yellowstone area bison and elk

    Ralph Maughan

    The powerful livestock organization R-CALF has written to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture urging that a program be implemented to rid the Greater Yellowstone area of brucellosis. This includes Yellowstone Park. The means they suggest for doing this are draconian. According to a story today by Brodie Farquhar in the Casper Star Tribune they include:…

  • Preserving park bison gene pool a tough job

    Ralph Maughan

    This is a laudatory story on the operation and intent of bison quarantine facility a few miles north of Yellowstone Park at Corwin Springs, Montana. Preserving park bison gene pool a tough job. By Scott McMillion. Bozeman Chronicle.

  • Bacterial? infection fells 2000 mallards in southern Idaho

    Ralph Maughan

    2500 mallards die south of Burley. Bacterial infection is suspected cause of death. By Steve Benson, Idaho Mountain Express.

  • Judge orders new 3-state in dispute over grizzly habitat

    Ralph Maughan

    This is a big victory for those trying to protect the imperiled grizzly bear populations in extreme NW Montana (the Cabinet-Yaak population) and in the Panhandle of Idaho and NE Washington State (the Selkirk grizzly population). Story. By Perry Backus in the Missoulian

  • Wyoming cougars dead of plague

    Ralph Maughan

    Bob Caesar called my attention to this story story in the Jackson Hole News and Guide. Cougars die from Plague by Cory Hatch. A mother cougar and her kitten died of plague. Two other cougars were found dead of the plague. This is rare in Wyoming, plague being more of a threat in the Southwest,…

  • New Forest Plan Rule Nukes NEPA

    Ralph Maughan

    Perhaps the most important environmental decisions the Forest Service makes is the 15-year (on the average) forest plans for each of national forests. The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) has always been at the core of the forest plans. NFMA, the National Forest Management Act, requires the forest plans and their updating, but it’s NEPA…

  • Wild Bill says Rocky Mountain Front has not been saved

    Ralph Maughan

    Stopping the oil and gas leasing is not enough,  Bill Schneider. New West. The Forest Service is not protecting the area from off-road vehicles and parts of the Front could fill up with trophy homes. An ominus sign on the Rocky Mountain Front. Montanans will recognize that is not “Buffalo Hill,” but famous landmark Haystack…

  • Wisconsin DNR: 9 Wolves Shot & Killed During Deer Hunting Season

    Ralph Maughan

    Story AP. The Great Lakes states have been much more tolerant of the recovering wolf population than the Western States. It may be cultural and it may also be due to the incredible number of deer in the Great Lakes. The deer hunt in the Great Lakes, like the deer and elk hunt in West,…

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