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  • Good news: Maybe a fine sockeye salmon year for Idaho

    Ralph Maughan

    A record summer for returning sockeye. By Scott Learn. Newhouse News Service “Sockeye salmon, an oceangoing species that starts and ends its life hundreds of river miles inland, are swimming up the Columbia River this summer in numbers unseen in five decades.” First sockeye comes home to Idaho. By Rocky Barker – Idaho Statesman

  • Butch Otter wants non-motorized watercraft to register, pay fees

    Ralph Maughan

    Butch Otter wants non-motorized watercraft to register, pay fees. LA Times. Fair is fair? Well, the fees all go to facilities used mostly by motorized craft.

  • Good news! Endangered sockeye salmon beat projections in Columbia

    Ralph Maughan

    Endangered sockeye salmon beat projections in Columbia River. AP. Idaho Statesman. After the collapse of the spring chinook salmon run into the Sacramento River this year, there was fear it would be general; but the sockeye salmon run bound for interior Oregon, Washington, and Idaho is 6 times that of last year. There are numerous…

  • Tailpipes, cows expand Idaho's carbon footprint

    Ralph Maughan

    Tailpipes, cows expand Idaho’s carbon footprint. Greenhouse gas emissions grew 30% from 1990 to 2005, thanks mainly to dairy expansion. Idaho Statesman. By Rocky Barker. Part of this “increase” is an accounting change — to include methane gas as well as carbon dioxide. Methane is a very potent greenhouse gas and cattle operations, especially CAFOs…

  • Owyhee Country public lands bill passes key U.S. Senate committee

    Ralph Maughan

    Yesterday I posted about the passage of the bill to protect the vast Wyoming Mountain range from oil and gas — a big matter for Wyoming. The same committee also passed Idaho Senator Mike Crapo’s “Owyhee bill,” which failed at the last minute at the end of the last Congress. This has been very controversial…

  • Idaho Fish and Game Sets Meetings on Wolf Hunting Rules

    Ralph Maughan

    Idaho Department of Fish and Game Contact: Niels Nokkentved 208-334-3746 For Immediate Release Fish and Game Sets Meetings on Wolf Hunting Rules The Idaho Department of Fish and Game has scheduled a series of public open house meetings around the state to get comments on proposed seasons and rules for Idaho’s first ever wolf hunting…

  • Idaho Wolf Management report Apr. 27 to May 2, 2008

    Ralph Maughan

    With the end of the weekly federal wolf reports, Idaho is now putting out its own weekly report. Twenty wolves died in Idaho in the first month of delisting. Twelve were control and 2 illegal killings. Ralph Maughan – – – – – – IDAHO WOLF MANAGEMENT WEEKLY PROGRESS REPORT To: Idaho Fish and Game…

  • Idaho proposes mortality cap for wolves in 2008

    Ralph Maughan

    The Assocated Press says that Idaho Fish and Game has released its recommendations for maximum allowed wolf mortality in 2008. The proposal is a total mortality cap of 328 wolves in Idaho. That total includes wolves killed by hunters and state managers, and those killed in accidents or by natural causes. I assume illegal mortality…

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