The Wildlife News

A Project of Sage Steppe Wild

January 20, 2010

  • True Grit: Jon Marvel

    Ralph Maughan

    University of Chicago Magazine does a feature on an alumni who shows true grit- True grit “In a heated showdown with Western cattlemen, Idaho environmentalist Jon Marvel, AB’72, tries to outlaw livestock grazing on public lands” By Lydialyle Gibson. Photography by Dan Dry.

  • Glacier, Yellowstone and Grand Teton manage roadside griz differently

    Ralph Maughan

    Which method works best? Actually it seems to me that there are too few differences in result so far to make a determination. Glacier hazes roadside bears; Grand Teton, Yellowstone let people close. By Cory Hatch, Jackson Hole News and Guide. Back in the days before 1970, Yellowstone let people feed sandwiches and twinkes to…

  • Some Yellowstone wolf news-

    Ralph Maughan

    I’ve been in the Park the last several days, the first time in well over a year.  I didn’t expect to see wolves because their number is down and until Jan. 19 I hadn’t visited Lamar Valley.  Yesterday I did show up in the Lamar just after mid-day. Using my “expert wolf spotting skills,” I…

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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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