Wildlife Habitat

  • Tar sand mining is actually coming to Utah?

    Ralph Maughan

    Awful and unlikely “energy source”  might soon break ground in Eastern Utah- Because of its tremendous environmental impacts and poor quality energy (little to no net energy is produced), I haven’t considered oil shale/tar sands mining much of an environmental threat in the desert of Utah. I suppose most others have felt the way.  As…

  • What’s Killing the Great Forests of the American West?

    Ralph Maughan

    Worse, die-offs are not limited to North America- Next summer will probably be a pretty bad forest fire season in the Pacific Northwest due to a dry winter, and so many of the forests are dead.  This is not a local problem, however, as Jim Robbins discusses in the feature article below. What’s Killing the…

  • Idaho Statesman's opinion is save the sage grouse

    Ralph Maughan

    [Statesman’s] View: It’s up to us: Act now to save an icon of the West- Well this is good to hear, but the only thing that will save the grouse is to conserve the intact, already healthy sagebrush areas and to create some new ones. Other measures might help a little, but could well be…

  • Stimulus funds for Wyoming wildlife underpasses denied by feds

    Ralph Maughan

    Although proven to work, WY high value wildlife crossing projects failed to get funding- Ambitious Wyo big game underpass plan takes hit. By Jeff Gearino. Casper Star Tribune Southwest Wyoming bureau It is especially sad to see pronghorn crossing projects at Trapper’s Point near Pinedale denied. This bottleneck is a huge threat to the semi-annual,…

  • 9th Circuit overturns Molloy's grazing decision on Antelope Basin

    Ralph Maughan

    Good news for a pretty, but cattle hammered basin on the Idaho/Montana border- Although those who only think about wolves suppose Federal Judge Molloy surely sides with conservation groups, he didn’t on this decision. Fortunately the 9th Circuit overturned his approval of a bad Forest Service grazing plan. Here is the story in the Montana…

  • Teton Range herd of bighorns at risk of extinction

    Ken Cole

    Winter recreation may be one of the impacts to the remaining bighorn. This population of bighorn sheep has dwindled to very low numbers. Inbreeding, habitat loss due to development, and domestic sheep disease have restricted these sheep to very high elevation and sites of low productivity so human entry into these areas during winter may…

  • British Columbia industrial development ban ends 36-year dispute over Flathead

    Ralph Maughan

    Controversy began 1n 1974- Well what a cause for celebration this is!  I can remember I was just starting to explore the wild country as a young man back in 1974 when Sage Creek Coal proposed a big coal mine on Cabin Creek, a tributary to the North Fork of the Flathead.  In 2008 I…

  • Researchers turn up the noise to battle bark beetles

    Ralph Maughan

    Is artificial bark beetle noise a silver bullet? Except at great expense and on a small scale, insecticides, logging or pheromone traps haven’t touched this beetle epidemic that extends from the Yukon to New Mexico.  Here is some thinking outside the box that might work. Of course, it too might only work over small areas.…

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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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