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  • Buffalo Field Campaign Update from the field

    Ralph Maughan

    Dear Buffalo Friends, As the buffalo fall migration begins, your tax dollars have been hard at work this week with Department of Livestock (DOL) agents out scouring the landscape for “rougue” buffalo. Of course, any that they find they will attempt to chase back into Yellowstone National Park. As luck would have it, the buffalo…

  • Montana's governor calls on Idaho to ban game farms

    Ralph Maughan

    “In Montana, we said it’s a bad idea to pen up a bunch of elk, feed them oats and have fat bankers from New York City shoot them while they’ve got their heads in a grain bucket,” Schweitzer said Wednesday during an interview in the Boise offices of The Associated Press.

  • Shooter bull elk from yet another Idaho shooter ranch gets out

    Ralph Maughan

    A bull elk from the Pine Mountain “Ranch” in Eastern Idaho has escaped. It was shot by state officials after wandering about 10 miles. The ranch said they didn’t know the 7-point antlered bull was missing. Earlier 160 or so domestic elk broke out of another Eastern Idaho shooter elk operation, making international news. Read…

  • Guest post on Freudenthal to Idaho: Ban game farms

    Ralph Maughan

    “Buffaloed” asked if I would post this. Buffaoled puts two issues together in way that makes sense to me. Ralph Maughan – – – – Freudenthal to Idaho: Ban Game Farms While I agree with Wyoming Governor Freudenthal’s call for closing of game farms in Idaho it reminds me of this article from back in…

  • Researchers Detect CWD in Heart Muscle of Elk and White-tailed Deer

    Ralph Maughan

    This is from a news release today from the University of Wyoming. It is interesting that the rouge prions don’t show up in in the hearts of mule deer. There is of yet little evidence that CWD can jump from cervids to humans like mad cow did from cattle to humans. Nevertheless, I would be…

  • Rabies vaccine may save rarest wolf from extinction

    Ralph Maughan

    The Ethiopian wolf will greatly benefit from the rabies vaccination of as few as 30% of their population. Story in the UK Independent. 10/12/06. Here is the abstact of the article, “Low-coverage vaccination strategies for the conservation of endangered species.”

  • Mange declines as a problem for Greater Yellowstone wolves

    Ralph Maughan

    In recent years, mange has grown as a problem for wolves of the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem, both in Montana and Wyoming, although none has been seen inside Yellowstone Park itself. A recent query posted to this blog asked about current conditions, so I contacted Mike Jimenez of USFWS and Carolyn Sime, Jon Trapp, and Liz…

  • "Wild Bill" says Rex Rammell could be a hero

    Ralph Maughan

    However, Bill Schneider argues that his heroic status is purely inadvertent. Read the column in New West.

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