It looks like Mitch King, regional director for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is trying to undo a bit of damage he did recently because it certainly sounded like they were trying to muzzle Ed Bangs as the Service was trying to work out a deal with Wyoming, and a Wyoming state representative was telling them to shut Bangs up. The earlier article reported the kind of quotes that just might get a federal judge’s attention should there be a lawsuit.
Here is the latest as written by Whitney Royster of the Casper Star Tribune. Muzzle wolf official?
Here is the earlier story. “Let the Public be Part of the Wolf Talks“
Ralph Maughan
Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University with specialties in natural resource politics, public opinion, interest groups, political parties, voting and elections. Aside from academic publications, he is author or co-author of three hiking/backpacking guides, and he is past President of the Western Watersheds Project and the creator of The Wildlife News.
This is unrelated to this tag but I wonder how the Artic wolves of Ellesmere Island are doing. According to an article I just read the island has lost most of its ice cover since 1906 and a 25 square mile block of ice just broke off of it.