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  • As hunters age, do they support allowing ATVs in more places?

    Ralph Maughan

    White River National Forest, Colorado offers new travel plan that would restrict ATVs- In interesting question is, is ATV use a generational thing or is it related to aging? If Bob Elderkin (in the article below) is in the majority, it is a generational thing, with older forest users, including hunters, being less, not more…

  • Barstool Mountain Myths: Wolves & Elk Numbers Strong Despite Dire Predictions

    Ralph Maughan

    Barstool Mountain Myths: Wolves & Elk Numbers Strong Despite Dire Predictions. By Tory and Meredith Taylor. Wyomingfile.com The Taylors are longtime Wyoming outfitters. They recently retired after a long career.  It is fair to say they had a much stronger conservation viewpoint than most outfitters. Meredith, for example, joined with me and a number of…

  • Idaho senate committee approves Fish & Game fee hike

    Ralph Maughan

    Looks like ID Fish & Game may get their tag fee increase- Key Idaho Senate Committee approves increase 8-1. Idaho Statesman staff.

  • Hunters are abiding by lead bullet bans in condor country

    Ken Cole

    Maybe Condors Can Survive Afterall As many recall there was a vigorous discussion here last week about the possibility of reestablishing California Condors to the Columbia Basin and Hells Canyon based on historical accounts and recent biological evidence. One of the issues brought up in the discussion was the lead bullet issue. When game is…

  • Idaho Fish and Game submits revised fee increase proposal

    Ralph Maughan

    Projected revenue increase revised from 20 down to 15%- Under the proposal basic fish and hunting licenses would not change. Tags, however, would increase by varying percentage amounts. Story in Idaho Statesman.

  • Poaching on the rise as the economy sinks

    Ralph Maughan

    This is entirely predictable- .  .  . and you can bet most state legislatures will do nothing about it. Black-market meat – Illegal killing of animals on rise as economy sinks. By Tracie Cone. AP in the Missoulian. Idaho Fish and Game needs more money, although they make me mad and I don’t think they…

  • Human fishing and hunting is accelerating evolution of species

    Ralph Maughan

    Result is mostly toward smaller and shorter-lived individuals- Human fishing and hunting accelerating evolution of species. Fishing and hunting by humans is accelerating the speed of evolution in some species as it removes whole generations of large adults who would otherwise reproduce. By Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent. UK Telegraph. Assuming that the prey does not…

  • Montana Elk, deer prospects look good this year

    Ralph Maughan

    This won’t impress most of that fraction of hunters who have decided that wolves have killed off the elk populations of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming, but most years I have put up articles like this. From the Missoulian. Montana Elk, deer prospects look good this year. By Michael Jamison.

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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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