Wyoming

  • Dangerous snow: Is foot rot taking hold at the National Elk Refuge?

    Ralph Maughan

    Rot is caused by freeze-thaw cycles in unsanitary snow- We just have to keep pointing out that persistant winter feeding of elk breeds disease. Now 23 elk have been put down for what is thought to be foot rot. No doubt more will die. Foot rot suspected in elk deaths on refuge. By Cory Hatch.…

  • Latest Wyoming (federal) wolf update- Jan. 7, 2011

    Ralph Maughan

    Federal wolf update is only official wolf news out there now- Here is the latest update from Ed Bangs office, the only government folks in the West who seem to be regularly producing data now.  It says it’s for Wyoming, but it also gives Yellowstone Park news, Oregon news and other wolf news. There is…

  • Wyoming elk population is large despite dire predictions in the past

    Ralph Maughan

    As Freudenthal leaves office, a reminder of reality- Freudenthal is on to other things. We don’t know what Governor Mead will do, but over a year ago Wyoming outfitters Tory and Meredith Taylor wrote an excellent story for WyoFile on the true state of affairs with wolves and elk in the Cowboy Energy State. Barstool…

  • Matt Mead replaces Dave Freudenthal as WY governor

    Ralph Maughan

    Freudenthal should be remembered for his use of anti-wolf hysteria- There are differences between Democrat Freudenthal and Republican Mead. However, on wolves it will probably be slight.  Freudenthal, however, was a pioneer of sorts in using wild, irresponsible  exaggeration of the impacts of wolves. Five years ago he was claiming that the then much smaller…

  • Wyoming to spend $9.7M to protect pronghorn

    Ralph Maughan

    Finally, it looks like a real effort to keep antelope bottlenecks west of Pinedale from closing- Over the years, we have written about the Trapper’s Point pronghorn migration bottleneck a number of times.  There has been growing awareness that the thousands-of-year-old antelope migration from the Wyoming high desert over the Gros Ventre each year, down…

  • Supporters of new dam on upper Green River don't give up

    Ralph Maughan

    Despite public outcry and negative vote by WY Water Development Commission, cattle assn, county commissions continue to push dam- Few people seem to like the proposal to build a dam on the upper Green River above Warren Bridge. The state Water Development Commission voted 7-1 against it, but powerful interest groups are trying sidestep public…

  • Montana says wolf deal is dead

    Ralph Maughan

    Schweitzer says talks have broken down, probably for good! According to the story, Idaho and Wyoming would not go along with a deal for a wolf hunt and delisting in Idaho and Montana because they wanted a legislative fix in addition. Montana governor says wolf deal dead. AP in the Bozeman Chronicle.

  • Groups consider drilling lease buyouts in Wyoming Range

    Ralph Maughan

    Wyoming Range Legacy Act didn’t protect 77,000 acres of the Wyoming Range. New approach to be tried? A lot of folks thought the tremendous victory of The Wyoming Range Legacy Act signed by President Obama last year stopping new oil or gas leasing on 1.2 million acres in the Wyoming Range and Salt River Ranges…

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Edward Abbey

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