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  • Idaho Conservation League scolds Otter for bighorn sheep policy

    Ralph Maughan

    ICL scolds Otter for bighorn sheep policy. Environmental group calls it a ‘top down approach’. By Matt Christensen Times-News writer. The governor’s bighorn sheep policy is supposed by announced Feb. 15.

  • Bill banning elk shooting farms introduced. Idaho state lawmakers say bill has no chance of passing

    Ralph Maughan

    Here’s the story, but the interesting thing is why it has no chance of passing. It’s because of the dominance of livestock lobbyists in Idaho. It won’t pass for the same reason the legislators rail and rave about wolves. The wolves are a diversion to keep hunters from seeing the privatization of wildlife in favor…

  • Idaho Fish and Game slaps at Jon Marvel. Is their account credible?

    Ralph Maughan

    This has been in the news the last two days. I didn’t put the story up early because I knew Brian Ertz was right there when this alleged incident took place, and had all the details. He told me about it the day after the wolf meeting. At the time, I thought “end of story”…

  • 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.

  • 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…

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