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  • A wide-eyed view of the Red Desert.

    Ralph Maughan

    This is about one of those places in Wyoming that is wonderful, and being destroyed by the gas industry, while Governor Freudenthal diverts attention to 150 or so wolves that wander a small part of the state near Yellowstone. A wide-eyed view of the Red Desert. If more people see it, naturalist contends, they will…

  • Roadkill higher than usual in Jackson Hole this winter

    Ralph Maughan

    Here is the story by Whitney Royster. It is isn’t just deer/vehicle collisions.

  • Bush Administration proposes listing the polar bear as a threatened species

    Ralph Maughan

    Most listings nowadays, and in the past, have come from conservation groups forcing the species onto the “list,” but in an unusual move the Bush Administration has proposed listing the polar bear, which is suffering the effects of warming in the Arctic. That melts the ice the bears need to hunt from. The polar bear…

  • World’s largest pit mine planned for SW Alaska

    Ralph Maughan

    I hadn’t heard about this until I read the Denver Post today. Proposed mine could have dreadful impact. By Charlie Meyers. Denver Post The project would have a huge impact on wild salmon fisheries in Alaska. It also involves two dams, one larger than the Three Gorges Dam in China. As usual in the Bush…

  • Feds want more WY gas wells even as deer decline

    Ralph Maughan

    I posted this article as part of a comment yesterday, but it deserves its own post. The natural gas industry is the major threat to elk and deer in Wyoming (and, of course, chronic wasting disease). I have always thought the state’s anti-wolf rhetoric was mostly designed to divert attention away from the industialization of…

  • Judge orders new 3-state in dispute over grizzly habitat

    Ralph Maughan

    This is a big victory for those trying to protect the imperiled grizzly bear populations in extreme NW Montana (the Cabinet-Yaak population) and in the Panhandle of Idaho and NE Washington State (the Selkirk grizzly population). Story. By Perry Backus in the Missoulian

  • Stanley, Idaho prohibits winter feeding of elk

    Ralph Maughan

    By Ralph Maughan Wolf Recovery Foundation Stanley, Idaho. The small central Idaho town of Stanley passed an ordinance Dec. 13 stating that no person shall knowingly feed “big game” within the corporate boundaries of Stanley. Idaho is not like Wyoming. Except for a few instances Idaho Fish and Game does not feed wintering deer or…

  • New Forest Plan Rule Nukes NEPA

    Ralph Maughan

    Perhaps the most important environmental decisions the Forest Service makes is the 15-year (on the average) forest plans for each of national forests. The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) has always been at the core of the forest plans. NFMA, the National Forest Management Act, requires the forest plans and their updating, but it’s NEPA…

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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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