From the monthly archives: July 2007
After several years of rising success in the lynx restoration in Colorado, the Colorado Division of Wildlife said they haven’t found single kitten this year.
Nevertheless, it might part of the natural cycle of lynx. The cycle of abandance and then scarcity of snowshoe hare and lynx is well known by even those with most [...]
Continue Reading →In recent email Jim Robertson wrote the following (see below). It was so interesting I decided to post it (with his kind permission). My, but he has some great photographs!
Ralph Maughan
Continue Reading →This fire has been burning for over a week, but it looks like now it could really take off. It is in southwest Montana to the NW of Dillon. It is a forest fire, not a rangefire.
Inciweb page on Pattengail Creek.
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Continue Reading →While coal-fired power plants are notoriusly dirity, some are a lot worse than others. They are usually the older plants.
One that has long galled me is the old, but big, 4-corners power plant near the Four Corners area of Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado. It spews its pall over the scenic canyonlands country [...]
Continue Reading →In the latest “wolf weekly” report from Ed Bangs at USFWS, Ed wrote: Yellowstone Park researchers report that the summer predation study is going well. Approx 31 kills have been found May-mid through mid-July and they are 20 bulls, 5 cows, 5 calves, 1 mule deer. These data support the results of research done by [...]
Continue Reading →Retiring elk tender defends feeding. By Cat Urbigkit, Casper Star-Tribune correspondent.
One of the reasons Wyoming government officials want to all but wipe out Wyoming wolves is that they chase and kill elk on these unnatural feedlots. The feedlots were created so the elk would not compete with the “sacred cattle” of Wyoming during [...]
Continue Reading →Barker blogs about the history of the general area burned in the giant Murphy Fire complex and the personalities involved.
He has written a lot about fires, beginning with his coverage of 1988 Yellowstone Park fires and living through the firestorm that blew through Old Faithful that year.
In 2005 his book Scorched Earth: How [...]
Continue Reading →I posted a story earlier about this energy generating bacteria that lives in Old Faithful and nearby thermal features. It was a short story.
I have deleted it in favor of this longer story. Surprising New Species Of Light-harvesting Bacterium Discovered In Yellowstone. Science Daily.
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Continue Reading →To sum it up, President Clinton issued an executive order that the Forest Service would keep all the non-wilderness, but yet roadless areas on the national forests, free of new permanent roads.
There were a number of court challenges filled to this by states like Wyoming and Idaho. They had mixed success. Then, new President [...]
Continue Reading →This is on Idaho’s deep, deep drought from the Idaho Mountain Express. By Jason Kaufmann.
The last week, the flow of monsoonal moisture coming up from the south (typical of August) has begun with thunderstorms, some quite wet. These have dampened some of the fires, but have little effect on the dry forests. These [...]
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