Wildlife Habitat
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“Wolves are causing a variety of problems on state elk feedgrounds, from spooking the elk and causing them to move from one area to another to killing work animals,” the Wyoming Game and Fish Department said. From Billings Gazette News Services. Read Article. The entire premise of the article is wrong. There should not be…
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Sometimes there are comments that are just so good, they should be brought to the front as a post. “BE” decided to calculate how much cattle consumed compared to elk. Remember that these animals compete for forage on the range. Read on. . . Webmaster. BE wrote: Interesting facts for hunters who care about elk…
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Conservationists issue Western energy agenda. By Judith Kohler. Associated Press writer. We know the agenda for the West from the Republicans — fossil fuel development forever, but the Western governors, especially the Democrats have had a lot to say lately about a new kind of energy development, and it could be pretty unfriendly to the…
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I thought folks would be interested in this because of the focus on the Southwest. I know a lot of people are celbrating the recent victory keeping oil and gas out of the famed Valles Caldera in northern New Mexico, but what they don’t know it that the public is excluded and this exclusionary semi-public…
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“KT” has commented extensively on this blog about how Las Vegas is grabbing water from underground for hundreds of miles in all directions so that these environmentally misfit fountains, lakes, and square miles of commerce in the hot desert can continue to grow and grow. Now Ted Williams has written about it in his blog.…
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Spread Creek rises east of Jackson Hole and flow into the Park. It is terrible fishing because it was degraded by a dam to divert waters to Elk Ranch Reservoir for irrigating hayfields for CATTLE inside Grand Teton National Park. The lower reaches of Spread Creek are lousy for fish, but the country around it…
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Now that Dale Bosworth is a free man, but no longer a person with authority as when he was Bush’s Chief of the U.S. Forest Service, he tells us that he basically supported President’s Clinton’s national forest roadless area protection role, not Bush’s. I can only hope he did his best to sabotage the Bush…
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Alberta is an oil and gas development basket case. Wyoming is heading that way quickly. Will Montana soon follow? Story about Montana’s growing oil and gas damage in the Bozeman Chronicle. By Scott McMillian