From the daily archives: Thursday, August 2, 2012

Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks maintains wolverine trapping

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Montana Dept of Fish, Wildlife and Parks maintains wolverine trapping.

At their August 2, 2012 Commission meeting, the Montana Dept of Fish, Wildlife and Parks (MDFWP) commissioners voted to continue trapping wolverine, despite a petition from eight environmental groups and one individual George Wuerthner (me) to halt trapping. The groups– which included Friends of the [...]

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Kicking the Cow Down the Road

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I stopped eating beef at least fifteen years ago, but I kept on eating lamb and mutton as long as we had sheep — until 2005.  I also milked goats and drank goats’ milk and made cheese.  After the goats, we drank nonfat cows’ milk and ate cheese (whatever was on sale).  This latter bit made no sense [...]

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Recent study moves split between brown bears and polar bears much further back in time

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5-milion years ago instead of 600,000 or 130,000 years ago-

Recent interest in the relationship between polar bears and brown (grizzly) bears from which they emerged has been fueled by the observation of increasing numbers of polar bear – brown bear hybrids. Our recent article on this produced a number of comments, [...]

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A Big Bonehead

(Cartoon by: Matt Wuerker | Date: May. 24, 2012)

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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