Wildfire

  • Time to get outdoors before the skies fill with wildfire smoke

    Ralph Maughan

    Most recent years have had a big downside in July and August, so plan- I spent yesterday in the mountains of Eastern Idaho. I didn’t go to the highest mountains where there is still snow and green-up is just beginning. The eastern Idaho valleys and lower mountains are filled with green grass, fresh foilage, wildflowers,…

  • Challenging the Standard Paradigm for Fires

    George Wuerthner

    I’ve been studying fire ecology for decades, an interest which led to the publication in 2006 of my book WIldfire: A Century of Failed Forest Policy. My interest in wildfire did not end with the book and I have continued to read and digest the fire-related literature, attend conferences, and most importantly visit and observe…

  • Western forest fire already!

    Ralph Maughan

    Lory State Park west of Fort Collins, CO, burns- Drought conditions across the U.S. have not changed much since last year’s near record. This is especially true in  the mid-West and the Western U.S.  There have already been several. One was in Idaho near Boise. It threatened homes. Now a thousand acre wildfire has burned…

  • Utah legislator tries to sell Idaho legislature on plan to take over our public lands

    Ralph Maughan

    Last week Rep. Ken Ivory, R of West Jordan, Utah, came north to Idaho, up out of the smog (worst in the country), to tell Idaho’s lawmakers that they should make a play to take over the U.S. public lands like Utah has proposed to do. We predicted this would happen because Utah’s legislature gets…

  • Montana wolverine trapping ignores ethics and biology

    George Wuerthner

    Due to petitions of a number of environmental groups, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) appears likely to list the wolverine under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Once found across much of the West and northern-tier states from Minnesota to Maine, wolverine are now limited to a few isolated populations in the western United…

  • SMART RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND THE LORAX

    George Wuerthner

    I am the Lorax, I speak for the trees. It seems more and more there are fewer conservation organizations who speak for the forest, and more that speak for the timber industry. Witness several recent commentaries in Oregon papers which are by no means unique. I’ve seen similar themes from other conservation groups in the…

  • Wildfires break out in many parts of Washington State

    Ralph Maughan

    The late wildfire season moves to the Pacific Northwest- This year’s great Western wildfire season began in Arizona and New Mexico with huge fires in May and June.  These are now out and the states have had a nice and wet summer monsoon season. Fires then moved to Utah, Colorado, and then to the more…

  • “Boo Boo,” the burnt bear cub is healing nicely (with update)

    Ralph Maughan

    Mustang Fire orphaned this small cub, but he’s healing nicely-   Idaho Statesman reports the cub might be too small to hibernate this winter, so will laze it away dozing and eating (see this story at the bottom of the page)- Though The Wildlife News hasn’t covered the story until now, many media have run…

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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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