A real black mark will be set today as Yellowstone Park sends 200 more bison to slaughter. Below is part of an update from the Buffalo Field Campaign. – – – – – – Buffalo Field Campaign Yellowstone Bison Update from the Field March 13, 2008 —————————— AMERICAN BISON ELIMINATED from the last wild population…
A coalition of conservation organizations and individuals is calling on Congress to de-fund Wildlife Services [Killers] Predator Eradication Program. This directly confronting attempts of the livestock industry to gain more money for Predator Control. Read the exceptional letter the coalition sent to congresspeople linked to at the end of this Press Release, the other links…
The news release below was posted March 4. This morning, this article appeared in the Billings Gazette. Activists try to stop bison hazing. By Mike Stark. Billings Gazette. The headline is poorly descriptive. – – – – – – – – For release. March 4, 2008 Contact: Timothy Preso, Earthjustice, (406) 586-9699 Michael Mease, Buffalo…
Michael Robinson certainly knows about Wildlife Services. His book, Predatory Bureaucracy, gives the history of this agency’s war on wolves and other wildlife from the greatest to the least on behalf of the livestock history. After you read this book and see how this agency has managed to survive under various names to go on…
This was expected, and it isn’t really the news. Story in the Casper Star Tribune. Montana approves wolf hunting season. By Eve Byron. Lee News Service The news is that Montana rejected things like trapping wolves (a grave danger to grizzly bears and dogs) and the use of artificial lures, baits, scents, electronic calls, aerial…
For years the U.S. Sheep Experimental Station, headquartered at Dubois, Idaho (not Dubois, Wyoming) has been grazing sheep in the top of the Centennial Mountains and elsewhere in the general area, and with no environmental analysis. After yet another successful lawsuit by Western Watersheds and the Center for Biological Diversity, represented by Advocates for the…
I can see that Robert Fanning is hot to have his say about the terrible terrible trouble he thinks wolves have done to the northern range elk. He added the comment below to the jackrabbit thread, but let’s give him a post. Ralph Maughan ________________ Subject: Northern Yellowstone elk older and fewer http://www.wildlife-enhancement.ca/usainfo_2.htm Friday, December…
Dr. Joel Berger has become notable for his research on Greater Yellowstone moose. In this interview with the New York Times he talks about how the growing presence of grizzly bears in the Grand Teton NP area is related to, may result in moose moving closer to roads to escape grizzly bear predation on their…
Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University. He was a Western Watersheds Project Board Member off and on for many years, and was also its President for several years. For a long time he produced Ralph Maughan’s Wolf Report. He was a founder of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He and Jackie Johnson Maughan wrote three editions of “Hiking Idaho.” He also wrote “Beyond the Tetons” and “Backpacking Wyoming’s Teton and Washakie Wilderness.” He created and is the administrator of The Wildlife News.