There will be media stories, good comments, and ignorant angry comments, but here’s one from a person who knows- Without commenting specifically on numbers or distribution of hunting quotas, I offer just these notes for your consideration. Aldo Leopold; forester, wildlife ecologist, conservationist, father of game management in America, lived from 1887 to 1948. In…
The federal authorization for each state to reduce wolves to 100-150 animals puts northern Rockies wolves on a spiral toward extinction. Interesting opinion piece about the inadequacies of the States’ wolf management plans. Montana, Idaho and Wyoming Wolf Policies Foreshadow Extinction By Michael J. Robinson, Guest Writer for New West
Conservationists accuse each other of distorting elk and wolf data. This article is about the recent public fight between the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and Defenders of Wildlife. I think part of the reason that the feud has heated up is because of the use of words like “annihilation” when referencing wolves and elk. I…
Cal Groen Claims that the balance in the Lolo “is completely out of whack” People have been discussing this on another thread but I thought it deserved its own. Some of the same old arguments on why even more wolves need to be killed next year are being made and how IDFG will allow even…
(VIDEO): Legislature To Vote On Confirmation April 9- I’m on vacation, but this item on Huffington Post was too good to pass up. It is just pathetic that a person like this could rise to a position of overseeing wildlife management in such an important place as Alaska. Story on Al Barette. Huffington Post.
Rocky Barker’s update on the lawsuit filed by Wolf Recovery Foundation and WWP- I want to reiterate that the part of the lawsuit applying to the Frank Church Wilderness and the chasing, darting, and landing there to radio collar wolves, is not primarily a wolf issue. It is a Wilderness integrity issue. I would be…
First Decline Since Reintroduction In Testimony to the Senate Resource and Environment Committee on January 18th Jim Unsworth, Deputy Director of the Idaho Fish and Game, said that the Idaho wolf population is about 800 animals which is down from last year’s estimate of 846. This would be the first decline seen in the wolf…
Preliminary wolf mortality numbers from the Idaho Fish and Game released. Officially, a total of 273 wolves died in Idaho from all causes. 260 were human caused mortalities which is up 120 from last year resulting in a 178% increase in overall mortality. Also from the report: From September 1 through December 31, 135 wolves…
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.