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  • 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…

  • "Ich" hits Idaho state fish hatchery for the second year in a row.

    Ralph Maughan

    Disease strikes Idaho fish hatchery, killing 250,000 rainbows. By John Miller. Associated Press.

  • Ebola-like virus killing fish in Great Lakes

    Ralph Maughan

    This sounds very serious. It could spread. Ebola-like virus killing fish in Great Lakes. USA Today. By Dennis Cauchon. post 1072

  • Fluvial grayling denied species protection

    Brian Ertz

    FWS keeps on keeping on… purging ESA protections. Not surprising given the previous post. Wolves, Grizzlies, Slickspot peppergrass, Fluvial graylings, the list goes on and on – We are witnessing the political dismemberment of what is supposed to be an agency guided by science – instead plundered by political obstructionists and public land profiteers. Link…

  • Photos and video of cattle in the Joseph Creek Wildlife area. Washington State.

    Ralph Maughan

    The new cattle put into a Washington State Wildlife area are posted as a Google Flash video (please rate the video). This is an outrage. These areas were purchased to restore wildlife, and salmon and steelhead habitat using your dollars. Now they have been opened to cattle in some kind of shady deal. Get the cows…

  • The Montana stream access issue becomes a three-front war

    Ralph Maughan

    From New West. Montana stream access issue becomes a three-front war. By Dan Testa; and from the Missoulian. Legal questions surface about governor’s stream access move By Charles S. Johnson. Missoulian State Bureau Here is an earlier story on the issue from early April 1 that I posted. Update. April 18. Editorial in the Missoulian.…

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