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  • Celebration and warnings as Greater Yellowstone Coalition marks its 30th year

    Ralph Maughan

    Former Yellowstone superintendent Michael Finley doubts grizzly delisting due to lack of habitat- West Yellowstone, MT.  Last weekend the Greater Yellowstone Coalition celebrated the 30th anniversary of its founding back in 1983. Along with honoring the founders, especially activist Rick Reese, and former Board members, the Coalition (GYC) had a prime time panel consisting of…

  • Grizzly sow shot in Island Park, Idaho. Her cubs in jeopardy? (updated twice)

    Ralph Maughan

    Island Park, Idaho. A female grizzly bear with two yearling cubs was hot near Island Park, Idaho on September 12. Island Park is a relatively low elevation and primarily flat area (an ancient caldera bottom) just west and southwest of Yellowstone Park. This year there had been two grizzly bear-human injuries in the Island Park…

  • Are Domestic Sheep responsible for the Bighorn Sheep Die-off in the Mojave?

    Ken Cole

    Bighorn sheep in the Mojave Desert of California and Nevada have been dying of pneumonia for some months now but, as with many of these outbreaks, the original source of infection hasn’t been conclusively identified. Some reports noted that an angora goat had been shot by a hunter and that it may have been the…

  • Endangered Species Act Protection Sought for Northern Rockies Fisher

    Press Release

    For Immediate Release, September 23, 2013 Contact:​Tierra Curry, Center for Biological Diversity, (928) 522-3681 ​​Kylie Paul, Defenders of Wildlife, (406) 370-6979 ​​Gary Macfarlane, Friends of the Clearwater, (208) 882-9755 ​​Travis Bruner, Western Watersheds Project (208) 788-2290 ​​ Endangered Species Act Protection Sought for Northern Rockies Fisher Rare Forest Carnivore Threatened by Trapping, Habitat Loss MISSOULA,…

  • Forest Services shuts down U.S. 12 to megaloads for good . . . again

    Ralph Maughan

    Closure order published Sept. 18 for section through the Lochsa-Clearwater Wild and Scenic River corridor- There was a similar headline about a month ago. Then Omega-Morgan transport, aided by a permit from Idaho Department of Transportation and law enforcement, bullied their way through the corridor. The Forest Service backed down in the face of this…

  • Greater Yellowstone griz to seek food in lower elevations this autumn

    Ralph Maughan

    Poor whitebark pine crop but a good berry crop brings bears lower and closer to people- This year as the Yellowstone country grizzly bears enter their time of peak appetite to prepare for hibernation they have a good berry crop to fatten on. However, there is a poor crop of the oil and protein rich…

  • Time of the year when grizzlies get very hungry is here

    Ralph Maughan

    It’s called “hyperphagia” Grizzly bears get a serious case of the “munchies” this time of the year. “Ravenous” is more the word. It is overwhelming and not a matter of personal character, but genetic programming to prepare for the winter hibernation. News media articles, agency warmings, and word of mouth tells people that the bears…

  • Mountain goats introduced to La Sal Mountains in Southeast Utah

    Ralph Maughan

    Trend of introducing mountain goats outside historic range continues- Utah’s Division of Wildlife has captured about 50 mountain goats from its thriving herd in the high Tushar Mountains of Southern Central Utah and released some of them into the photographically famous La Sal Mountains, east of Moab, near the Colorado border. Seeing and hunting the…

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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

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community.
 
It is wrong when it tends otherwise. 
 
Aldo Leopold

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