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  • Rocky Barker says salmon have swimmed back into the consciousness of Idahoans

    Ralph Maughan

    Barkers blog in the Idaho Statesman. June 26

  • Big Hole River has already dropped to just 13% of normal

    Ralph Maughan

    Story. Big Hole drops. By Nick Gevock of The Montana Standard. A small snowpack last winter plus ranchers drawing out water to grow hay is drying up the river, the home of the river-dwelling grayling in the lower U.S. Recently the Bush Administration refused to put the Big Hole River grayling on the endangered species…

  • More on the plight of Montana's river dwelling grayling

    Ralph Maughan

    This is a guest editorial in the Montana Standard written by Derek Goldman and Chris Marchion. It was not written by “staff.” More on Big Hole River grayling. Montana Standard.

  • Big Lost River Whitefish conservation plan affirmed

    Ralph Maughan

    Whitefish conservation plan affirmed. Plan approved by F&G Commission is specific to Big Lost River subspecies. By Jason Kauffman. Idaho Mountain Express Staff Writer. The Big Lost River does not drain to the ocean or any other river. It sinks out on the Snake River Plain (actually it is almost always dried up by diversions…

  • Fight to save the fluvial grayling in Montana is not over yet.

    Ralph Maughan

    Groups are going to court to try to force the Bush Administration to list the fluvial grayling.  This has become normal and expected as the Administration neither belives in the Endangered Species Act or adding any more species to the list. Do they believe in the rule of law regarding anything ❓ Story in the…

  • Cutthroat rapidly losing out to lake trout in Yellowstone Lake

    Ralph Maughan

    Cutthroat losing out to lake trout in Yellowstone Lake. Native trout numbers lowest since counting began. By Mike Stark. Of The Billings Gazette Staff. The situation is more dire than I thought possible. It is a catastrophe for Yellowstone wildlife and all those who enjoyed fishing the tributaries to the lake. Those is in boats,…

  • On the Snake River, the Dams' Natural Allies Seem to Have a Change of Heart

    Ralph Maughan

    On the Snake River, Dam’s Natural Allies Seem to Have a Change of Heart. By Felicity Barringer. New York Times. Given enough years and enough losses in court, the political support for the four salmon-killing dams on the lower Snake River (in the state of Washington) may be showing cracks. ########## One point I’d like…

  • Montana, an accomplice to grayling extinction

    Ralph Maughan

    As was recently reported, the Bush Administration has refused to list the fluvial form of the arctic grayling in Montana, but the fish is already functionally extinct there. So I guess DOI can say “mission accomplished.” George Wuerthner, writing in New West, points the finger for the on-the-ground conditions that felled the grayling to stream…

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