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  • Winter ticks invade Yukon elk herds

    Ralph Maughan

    The Yukon Environment Department believes the infestation may be due to the warming climate. The winter tick doesn’t hurt elk much, but often greatly weakens moose. Story Winter ticks invade Yukon elk herds. CBC News. post 1037

  • Jones Has Two Weeks to Get Wildlife Off Blackfoot Ranch

    Ralph Maughan

    The photo in this New West article is worth a thousand words about the problems posed by elk farming and elk shooting enclosures. This is the n-teenth article about Jones’ shooter bull operation controversy.  Jones Has Two Weeks to Get Wildlife Off Blackfoot [elk] Ranch. By Nathaniel Hoffman. New West.

  • Wuerthner: Hunting In National Parks Not Appropriate

    Ralph Maughan

    This is a guest opinion column in New West. It is proposed to reduce the obvious overpopulation of elk in Rocky Mountain National Park by hunting. There are other possbilities. Wuerthner doesn’t like the hunting option and explains why. He prefers predation of the elk. I’d like to see wolves reintroduced too, but they would…

  • Wyoming Game and Fish says wolves hurting cow:calf ratios in certain areas

    Ralph Maughan

    Wyoming Game and Fish has released a story claiming for the first time that they have data showing wolves are hurting elk cow:calf ratio. Story in the Jackson Hole News and Guide. Here is a link to the WY Game and Fish web site where you can find a link about the study. Unfortunately, it…

  • 2006 was another good year for hunting in Idaho

    Ralph Maughan

    Earlier I posted a very long time series of statistics on Idaho hunts. The news for 2006 has been released, the the elk hunt figures were about the same as the last two years. Hunters tagged 20,257 elk in 2006, down slightly from 21,520 in 2005 and 20,925 in 2004. This success rate was 19.5%;…

  • Deal made for 178,000 acres of cow-free wildlife habitat east of Grand Teton

    Ralph Maughan

    The National Wildlife Federation has paid to buy out Stanko’s Bacon Creek grazing allotment on the Bridger-Teton national forest, which is home to very important elk, deer, bighorn sheep, moose and pronghorn habitat as well as grizzly bears and 3 wolf packs. The buyout was voluntary. Story in the Billings Gazette. Deal expands wildlife habitat.…

  • WY Game and Fish says far too many elk in herd just SW of Jackson

    Ralph Maughan

    Here’s another elk herd in wolf country that is deemed too populous — Wyoming’s Fall Creek herd (just south and SW of Jackson) On the other hand, there are too few mule deer in the Wyoming Range, especially the buck to doe ratio. Wolves are not tolerated in the Wyoming Range (too far south WY…

  • Idaho's domestic elk industry avoids all regulation as even weak bill fails.

    Ralph Maughan

    Sportsmen, conservationists, and the average Idahoan seemed outraged at nearly unregulated proliferation of “elk farms” and “shooter bull” operations in Idaho. Many bills were introduced into the Legislature in January, but they all died. Given the weak bill left, perhaps it is best that it was finally shot down by a bi-partisan coalition of Republicans…

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