wildlife

  • Old line extractive occupations dominate key Idaho legislative committee

    Ralph Maughan

    No committee of the Idaho state legislature have more influence over wildife than than the Senate and the House Resource and Conservation Committees. A look at the occupations of those on the committees show they represent an Idaho of days gone by. This kind of occupational, and so viewpoint unrepresentativeness, is fairly common in legislatures,…

  • Rural West going to the dogs.

    Ralph Maughan

    Rural West going to the dogs. WESTERN ROUNDUP. High Country News. By Troy Anderson. Note that this is a partial article. You need a subscription to High Country News to read it all. This article is a useful corrective for those who can only worry about wolves, cougars and bears, although I don’t particularly like…

  • How public wildlife became something for sale

    Ralph Maughan

    Everyone should read this, in part because I think a major effort to privatize wildlife and to have livestock associations assume de facto control of state wildlife departments is afoot. How public wildlife became something for sale. By Mark Henckel. Billings Gazette Outdoor Editor This article is precisely about what Robert Hoskins, Mack Bray and…

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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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