Latest Posted Idaho Wolf Hunt Kill total: 114 Latest Posted Idaho Wolf Trapping Kill total: 6 Latest Posted Montana Wolf Hunt Kill Total: 87 Wyoming Wolf Kill Total: 58 Regional Total Reported Killed This Year: 265 Regional Total Reported Killed Since Delisting: 810 A famous trout stream that was damaged by livestock grazing gets a chance at recovery in…
Latest Posted Idaho Wolf Hunt Kill total: 111 Latest Posted Idaho Wolf Trapping Kill total: 1 Latest Posted Montana Wolf Hunt Kill Total: 84 Wyoming Wolf Kill Total: 56 19 from the “predator zone” (there were only an estimated 20-30 at the start of the hunt) 37 from the “trophy zone” (the quota is 52)…
A year after Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) filed a complaint with the BLM for intentionally excluding livestock grazing impacts from “Rapid Ecoregional Assessments” which were supposed to look at “change agents” for BLM landscapes, the BLM has put the $40 million assessments on hold and remained silent about charges of political interference. Even…
At least 50 dead griz, but population said to grow by 15- The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem stretches over about 18-million acres and into 3 states. Grizzly bears inhabit about 2/3 of that to some degree, hardly being confined to the smallish 2.2 million acres of Yellowstone National Park. Grizzly bear numbers have been growing for…
I am the Lorax, I speak for the trees. It seems more and more there are fewer conservation organizations who speak for the forest, and more that speak for the timber industry. Witness several recent commentaries in Oregon papers which are by no means unique. I’ve seen similar themes from other conservation groups in the…
Human-caused fire just one ridge south of Cache Creek! Revised on 9/11 afternoon. All of the mountains immediately south of Jackson, WY have been closed due to the Little Horsethief Fire Horsethief Canyon Fire that started from an illegal private trash fire late Saturday and now is over 1500 2600 acres just south of the…
Halstead Fire threatens all the Salmon River Mountains NE and East of Stanley- Trinity Ridge Fire’s advance prompts immediate full evacuation of Featherville area- Air quality in Idaho right now is the worst in a generation in many places, and we’re not even speaking of places immediate to the fires. Three fires in particular the…
Increase since March probably due to unusual and destructive weather- After a period of general decline in belief among the general public that climate change is taking place, polls show a recent surge in believers. Very hot weather in the Eastern U.S. in March, the record breaking drought, and the sudden appearence of more than…
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.