The Wildlife News

July 15, 2009

  • Palin's departure not likely to change Alaska's anti-wolf programs

    Ralph Maughan

    Unrepresentative Board of Game and science-free biologists said to be the problem- Alaska biologists may be to blame for bad predator control policies. By Cathy Taibbi.  National Examiner. I missed this earlier. This lengthy article is actually part 2 of Exploring Alaska’s wolf-control controversy. Government favors trophy hunting dollars over ecology.

  • Open Letter to Gov. Brian Schweitzer:

    Ken Cole

    Take Back Our Public Lands By Tom Woodbury, Western Watersheds Project, Addition by Ralph Maughan. This is also in New West. You can comment there as well as on this blog. 2008 should be remembered as the year of the buffalo. Over 1600 bison were slaughtered in Montana that year, about half of the last…

  • Moscow, Idaho man reports fighting with mountain lion near Elk River, Idaho

    Ralph Maughan

    Firewood gatherer said to be attacked. Stabbed cougar ran off- Idaho Mountain Lion attack. AP

  • Idaho Sockeye Returning at Record Numbers

    Ken Cole

    As of 7/13/09 914 sockeye salmon have crossed Lower Granite Dam. Last year was a record for modern times when 909 Sockeye Salmon passed over Lower Granite Dam and 450 plus 650 returned to the Sawtooth Valley. This year there have been 914 so far and the run is not over. There was a year…

  • Jon Jarvis: A new voice for the national parks

    Ralph Maughan

    New York Times very positive on the new Director of the National Park Service- When President Obama nominated Jon Jarvis to head the Park Service, I was not familiar with him. However, the New York Times thinks Jarvis is the “best news [they] have heard in the past nine years about the national parks” New…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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