Wildlife Habitat

  • Colorado wolf supporters push Flat Tops Wilderness area as reintroduction site

    Ralph Maughan

    Wolves for Colorado in the Flat Tops? WildEarth Guardians is petitioning the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to restore wolves to four Colorado areas with the most emphasis on the Flat Tops area north of Glenwood Springs (part of it is a Wilderness area). The other areas in the petition are “the Grand Mesa-Uncompahgre-Gunnison national…

  • Early Fall Float on North Fork of the Flathead (my conservation commentary w/photos)

    Ralph Maughan

    An Early Fall Float on the North Fork of the Flathead This New West article with great photos describes floating the beautiful North Fork of the Flathead from its origin in British Columbia downstream to the US border?? I linked to it because I was just up there myself in BC to investigate, and a…

  • Thrillcraft Video

    Brian Ertz

    A video detailing the damages of ORV use on America’s public lands following the general theme of George Wuerthner’s book Thrillcraft: The Threat of Motorized Recreation has been posted online:

  • Unanticipated effects of using gall-flies to control spotted knapweed

    Ralph Maughan

    We have talked a lot about knapweed on this forum because of its negative consequences for wildlife habitat. Biocontrol has been pushed as an alternative to herbicides, but this is bad news. “ScienceDaily (Sep. 5, 2008) — Biocontrol agents, such as insects, are often released outside of their native ranges to control invasive plants.” Read…

  • Governor Otter and others: Photo-op environmentalism

    Ralph Maughan

    They don’t do anything to restore the salmon runs, but they show up for photos when the small run of salmon finally makes it past Stanley, Idaho. View of the Idaho Mountain Express: photo-op environmentalism.

  • New report says grazing had "negligible" effects on size of Murphy Complex fire

    Ralph Maughan

    This is a revised version of an earlier story. Here is the news release from the Western Watersheds Project. Rocky Barker also discusses it in his recent blog. BLM Report On The Murphy Complex Wild Fire Shows That Grazing Has Little Effect On Fire Behavior. Idaho BLM has released a long awaited Report on the…

  • Good news for the Kootenai River sturgeon

    Ralph Maughan

    Deal reached on Kootenai sturgeon. By Nicholas K. Geranios.  Associated Press Writer The huge and long-lived sturgeon have not been able to spawn successfully in the Kootenai RIver since the Libby Dam was finished way back in the 1970s.

  • Wild Forests and Landscape Amnesia

    Ralph Maughan

    The Aug. 2008 The International Journal of Wilderness has a fine article by George Wuerthner. Most of the rural East has become reforested as agricultural has shifted and these relatively marginal lands for cultivation have grown back into forests. It may appear the old forest has now been considerably restored, but Wuerthner argues we hardly…

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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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