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  • Some Gray Wolf Peer Review Panel members axed by USFWS

    Ralph Maughan

    Washington D.C. At the federal level, there appears to be more crude, heavy-handed politics in the delisting of the gray wolf. Three prominent scientists, experts on wolves, were just cut from the committee at the insistence of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service because they signed a letter with 13 other wolf scientists expressing concern…

  • Do you have some interesting wildlife news? July 23, 2013 edition

    Ralph Maughan

    It is time for a new “wildlife news” thread.  Please put  your news, links and comments below in comments (“Leave a reply”)   Here is the link to the old thread now being retired (June 24, 2013).

  • Utah legislators finally order audit of state funds given to Big Game Forever to keep wolves out of Utah

    Ralph Maughan

    What did the anti-wolf entrepreneurs do with the Utah taxpayer money? During the recent Utah legislative session, a big controversy blew up about giving the Sportsman for Fish and Wildlife spinoff group, Big Game Forever, the second of two grants to fight the introduction of wolves into Utah. Despite the fact that wolf reintroduction to Utah…

  • Do you have some interesting wildlife news? June 24, 2013 edition

    Ralph Maughan

    It is time for a new “wildlife news” thread.  Please put  your news, links and comments below in comments (“Leave a reply”)   Here is the link to the thread being retired (June 5, 2013).

  • Wolf Management Policy in the West — Is Compromise Possible?

    Jeremy Bruskotter

    Recent conversations with scientists at conferences, along with several comments made recently by readers of The Wildlife News got me thinking about this question. In one of the more bleak moments, a reader commented: After years of reading and posting here, I finally got enough that I spoke out. I am a conservationist, I commit…

  • Do you have some interesting wildlife news? May 1, 2013 edition

    Ralph Maughan

    It is time for a new “wildlife news” thread. Please put  your news, links and comments below in comments.  Here is the link to the thread being retired (April 3, 2013).

  • Earth Day and the Fermi Paradox

    Ralph Maughan

    Our future bleak; do intelligent species destroy themselves- Today is Earth Day, the 43rd since its inception in 1970. Earth Day is always a day for some celebration, thought, political and social action, and fear for the future of life on the planet. For example, this Earth Day is also the last day to comment…

  • Are Ranchers Stupid?

    George Wuerthner

      Are ranchers stupid? You might think so if you watch their behavior towards predators. For decades ranchers have declared war on coyotes. Despite their best efforts, coyotes not only survive, but thrive. Even with taxpayer subsidies to America’s welfare ranchers in the form of Animal Damage Control agents, and the slaughter of tens of…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

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

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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