January 2007
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Some anti-wolf folks in Wisconsin are showing their contempt for the public’s intelligence by producing this TV commercial . . . Red Riding Hood I suppose “The Three Pigs” are next. There seems to be no level they won’t stoop to in trying to exploit primitive emotions.
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Crying wolf. By Tony Vagneur. The Aspen Times News (CO) Tony Vagneur discusses how some “Idaho ranchers exemplify fear” and how others use fear to perform political manipulation.
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Although the recovery of gray wolves in the Northern Rockies has been pretty successful, recovery of the smaller, sub-species Mexican Gray Wolf in Arizona and New Mexico, has been poor. Ten years after they began to be reintroduced, there are only 6 breeding pairs in the two states, and as the article below states, the…
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The Wyoming Range is a beautiful and wildlife-rich mountain range in SW Wyoming. Some folks might think this storyline might be a reference to rangeland in the state of Wyoming. No it is the name of a mountain range 70 miles long and about 25 miles wide. At the headwaters of Lunch Creek and the…
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Gray wolves to leave endangered list. By Matthew Brown. AP The Department of Interior is announcing the delisting of the gray wolf in the Northern Rockies and will do so soon in the Great Lakes. Normally the recovery of an endangered species is a cause for celebration, and that’s because normally the states don’t then…
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Montana legislature is thinking of setting up a Montana wolf compensation board. All verified losses so far have been covered by Defenders of Wildlife privately. They suggest allocating $200,000. That’s probably about twice what they will need a year (unless that includes administration). Meanwhile, Defenders continues to compensate. My view is that they should stop…
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Boise. The Idaho Fish and Game Commission met today amidst an audience dominated by wolf supporters, but no public comments were allowed. They set a price of $26.50 for a wolf tag. In explaining the low fee for the tag the commission chair said that wolves may not ever generate money, “kinda like women’s sports.”…
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This story is from the Sinapu blog. Although the new effort to ban sodium cyanide and sodium monofluoroacetate is primarily motived by their dangers to non-target wildlife, pets, and people who get in the way, terrorists could hardly do better than get hold of the sodium cyanide capsules that are used in baited ejectors or…