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  • Feds want more WY gas wells even as deer decline

    Ralph Maughan

    I posted this article as part of a comment yesterday, but it deserves its own post. The natural gas industry is the major threat to elk and deer in Wyoming (and, of course, chronic wasting disease). I have always thought the state’s anti-wolf rhetoric was mostly designed to divert attention away from the industialization of…

  • The urban deer ‘problem’

    Ralph Maughan

    Over on Alan Gregory’s blog there is a discussion of urban deer. It’s not just a matter of concern in the East. It’s in the West too, even including Wyoming.  The Urban Deer ‘problem’

  • WyDOT, others try new ways to reduce roadkill

    Ralph Maughan

    Teton County and other NW Wyoming areas have a tremendous problem with vehicles hitting wildlife and even vice versa, and a lot of it is larger than deer. The article below says “256 elk, moose and mule deer have been killed on roads. In addition, nine bison and one black bear were killed by cars.”…

  • Car hits deer carcass, two die

    Ralph Maughan

    This is just another story on the animal that is the true threat to human life–deer, not wolves. Brief story in the Denver Post. 

  • What Idaho Fish and Game says about the hunting season

    Ralph Maughan

    Idaho Fish and Game put out the following news release today about the hunting season. It was written by a wildlife officer from Grangeville. That’s in North Central Idaho (Clearwater River area). It’s not hard data, rather impressionistic. I wonder why the officer comments on the effects of wolves on elk and moose hunting, but…

  • Deer Attacks, Kills His Owner in New York.

    Ralph Maughan

    This is article for those folks worried about wolves killing and eating them. What’s more common than a fatal wolf attack, a deer attack! Deer Attacks, Kills His Owner in New York. AP I know a woman in Pocatello, Idaho who was almost killed by a deer in the local zoo.

  • Eroded banks of the unstable Virgin River. Zion NP

    Ralph Maughan

    The post on the lack of cougars resulting in damage to the ecology of Zion National Park has prompted a lot of comments. I thought I’d post a photo I took of the Virgin River in Zion Canyon last March. The streambanks are trampled and bare or are calving off where the silt is deep.…

  • Disappearce of cougars in Zion NP has led to a general ecological decline

    Ralph Maughan

    I always wondered why the Virgin River looked so oddly entrenched and actively eroding in Zion NP. It may be an indirect effect of the loss of the cougar. As any visitor will attest, the deer are everywhere. Cougar predation key to ecosystem health

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