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  • Wildlife Services 2007 report on wolf control in Idaho

    Ralph Maughan

    I hadn’t seen one of these before, except a hard copy many years ago before wolves were restored to Idaho. Then it was a general report on control of all “harmful” animals. It’s fascinating to me. Everyone will view it differently. My view is all this effort over such a trivial loss of livestock (except…

  • Man's poisoning prompts debate on predator poison ban

    Ralph Maughan

    Here is more on the dangers of poisons set out for coyotes (and soon wolves?). “Curious, Slaugh touched the stake, and it exploded, spewing a cloud of sodium cyanide in his face and chest. Slaugh, 65, of Vernal, Utah, said he suffers long-term health effects from the 2003 spraying. He has difficulty breathing, vomits almost…

  • Livestock Lobby Pressures to Retain Wildlife Poisons

    Ralph Maughan

    This is from Wild Again, Livestock Lobby Pressures to Retain Wildlife Poisons. I think people should add to their comments to the EPA (due by Jan. 15) that these poisons, especially 1080, would be a terrorist’s delight, an ideal weapon for not just poisoning a large number of people because it is so toxic and…

  • [Blaine County] Locals denounce [Idaho] state’s wolf plan

    Brian Ertz

    Last night, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game held it’s Idaho Wolf Population Management “Open House” followed by a hearing conducted by Blaine County commissioners in Hailey Idaho. For wolf advocates in attendance this night proved to be a remarkably uplifting experience. A diverse group of wolf advocates, hunters, and citizens of Blaine County…

  • Resisting Delisting – Idaho Wolves & Livestock's Influence

    Brian Ertz

  • IDFG Wolf Plan public meeting – Jerome

    Brian Ertz

    The first in a series of Idaho Department of Fish & Game public meetings on Idaho’s Wolf Management Plan took place in Jerome last night. The plan, IDFG maintains, is the result of a series of stakeholders’ meetings that included Livestock interests, sporting interests – including Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife, and conservation interests represented…

  • EPA initiates first steps to ban two nasty wildlife poisons

    Ralph Maughan

    Sodium cyanide and sodium fluoroacetate — Compound 1080 — are both used to kill wild mammals. They frequently kill non-target species and they have been used to illegally kill wolves in Idaho. Both would be excellent weapons for terrorists to use. 1080 causes a painful, awful death. Please help get them banned. I have a…

  • Wildlife Services, the misnamed federal agency killed 1.6 million animals in 2006

    Ralph Maughan

    Federal wildlife agents killed 1.6 million animals in ’06. By Matthew Brown. Associated Press. The federal agency Wildlife Services “serviced” 1.6 million animals last year. Numerically most of them were birds, but a lot of them were animals that many, perhaps most Americans, would rather not see killed to fatten the bottom line for ranchers…

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