The Wildlife News

May 2007

  • Big Lost River Whitefish conservation plan affirmed

    Ralph Maughan

    Whitefish conservation plan affirmed. Plan approved by F&G Commission is specific to Big Lost River subspecies. By Jason Kauffman. Idaho Mountain Express Staff Writer. The Big Lost River does not drain to the ocean or any other river. It sinks out on the Snake River Plain (actually it is almost always dried up by diversions…

  • More on the Montana brucellosis

    Ralph Maughan

    While this article is a bit repetitive, it shows the evolution of the controversy. The Paradise Valley, in particular the Emigrant cattle ranch, seems not be the source of brucellosis. Some still suspect elk from somewhere, but some are thinking it came from infected cattle from somewhere else. Some folks who have posted have suggested…

  • Deal [with Wyoming] removes obstacle to wolf delisting

    Ralph Maughan

    I’m not sure what it means, but if it actually means wolves will be protected only in Yellowstone and Grand Teton Parks, and adjoining Wilderness areas. This really means wolves will be protected ONLY inside Yellowstone Park, and then only as long as they don’t step outside unless it is into a designated Wilderness. No…

  • Buffalo Field Campaign reports on more obnoxious bison hazing.

    Ralph Maughan

    Instead of going along with this, hopefully the next Administration will charge Montana DOL with a criminal offense when they invade Yellowstone Park this way. They should be charged with the felony, not the BFC volunteers. The DOL thugs should remember the way Congress changed in 2006. There will be a new President in 2008.…

  • Nature writer/photographer recovering in hospital after Hayden Valley grizzly with cub mauled him

    Ralph Maughan

    Close encounters. By Brodie Farquhar. Caspter Star Tribune. The man, Jim Cole, has been mauled before; and was later charged but found not guilty of approaching a grizzly too closely. Update (May 27): Friend: Man mauled by grizzly had no time for pepper spray. AP. post 1146

  • On the recovery of the Black-footed Ferret

    Ralph Maughan

    This was posted at Carnivore Conservation blog. It links to the latest data (in papers). It is from a 2004 symposium, which was badly needly because the publicly available information was a decade old. About the recovery of the Black-footed Ferret. (corrected link) Like the wolf, the ferret’s endangered status is the result of the…

  • Huge B.C. coal mine that would drain into Montana gets attention from Condoleeza Rice

    Ralph Maughan

    Here is the latest on the proposed Cline Mine, just north of the B.C. border. Montana’s senator Baucus got Secretary of State Rice to urge Canada’s federal government to ask for a more detailed environmental assessment than B.C. requires. However, the government in Ottawa has not taken any action yet. The article below in the…

  • Oxbow pack in Yellowstone has 10 pups

    Ralph Maughan

    The relatively new Oxbow Pack, which split late in 2005 from the Leopolds, had a double litter of eleven pups! One pup has died. Dr. Doug Smith told me today that there is a pup count from just one other pack– the “new Swan Lake Pack” has 5 pups (plus 5 and maybe 6 adults).…

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