Wildlife Habitat

  • Global Warming, Killer Bears?

    Brian Ertz

    Obama’s Abandonment of the West Doug Peacock continues to enrich the debate over grizzlies in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem : Global Warming, Killer Bears? Doug Peacock, Counterpunch Biologists sometimes like to quibble that losing the grizzly because of the collapse of whitebark pine forests may be the least of our ecological worries. Ecosystems are, of…

  • Elk, aspen & wolves: a complicated food triangle

    Ken Cole

    What about willows? One of the main criticisms I’ve heard is that the story fails to mention studies indicating measurable changes in willow growth. Willows, a riparian species, have really made a comeback in many areas where wolves are present and have increased the habitat for birds, beavers and fish. Elk, aspen & wolves: a…

  • Disgusting deformed fish show up below giant Alberta tar sands pits

    Ralph Maughan

    Condition of fish in Lake Athabasca appall scientists, natives- The tar sand pits have been called the world’s greatest on-going environmental disaster.  Many are fingering the pits as the cause of hideously deformed fish showing up downstream. Mutant fish lead to calls for Ottawa to monitor oil sands. Bob Weber. Edmonton — The Canadian Press.…

  • Oregon congressman steps in to help save Highway 12 from use for massive modules of tar sands machinery

    Ralph Maughan

    Rocky Barker reports on effort by Oregon Democratic Rep. Peter DeFazio- DeFazio says tar sands over-sized shipments cost all American taxpayers. By Rocky Barker. Letters from the West. Idaho Statesman.

  • Jackson Hole area: Prescribed burn set for Lower Slide Lake area

    Ralph Maughan

    4500 acres of 17,000 acre habitat important project to be burned this fall- Any comments about this will be welcome. The story says the burn could last as few as 6 days but as long as 6 weeks. So what about folks who live nearby? Prescribed burn set for Lower Slide Lake area. By Angus…

  • Losing the Whitebark Pine affects much more than grizzly bears

    Ralph Maughan

    “We don’t know what’s going to happen without whitebark.”- I know it will soon be functionally extinct, although no doubt some token remnants will be protected from beetles and blister rust. Ecologically speaking, it is already almost gone. Here is a long essay on its demise and the effects. Feature article in New West. Grizzlies…

  • Another Gulf Oil Well goes boom . . . now has mile long slick

    Ralph Maughan

    No one dead this time; relatively shallow water- This well was in production, unlike the Deepwater Horizon, BP disaster.  It tells me that major oil pollution might have become a permanent feature of the Gulf of Mexico. Oil sheen spreading from Gulf platform explosion. By Alan Levin and Julie Schmit, USA Today – – –…

  • Contract to remove Elwha dams goes to Montana firm

    Ralph Maughan

    Decision to remove took decades. Decades more before salmon runs will be restored- Despite these “minor” delays, this is a bit of very good news. Contract to remove Elwha dams goes to Montana firm. By Lynda V. Mapes. Seattle Times staff reporter

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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