The Wildlife News

September 2012

  • Yellowstone Park gets its first big fire of the year (update 9/16/12)

    Ralph Maughan

    Cygnet Fire burns right in the middle of Yellowstone Park- August 26, 2012. Though dwarfed by 100,000 acre+ Idaho fires, this has potential to grow. Started by lightning on the Park’s Central Plateau, it has now grown to about 1000 acres (1 1/2 square miles).   The fire is in the backcountry about 3-4 miles…

  • Judge puts hold on Wisconsin’s plans to hunt wolves with dogs

    Ralph Maughan

    Has a bloodfest been averted? Madison. Plans to allow wolves to be hunted with dogs, as part of Wisconsin ‘s first wolf hunt, have been at least temporarily set aside by the ruling of Dane County Circuit Judge Peter Anderson. No other state has permitted dog hunting of wolves, but the Wisconsin legislature directly inserted…

  • Do corvids gather for funerals?

    Ralph Maughan

    Research on scrub jays and anecdotal observations of other corvids shows a large reaction to a dead member of their species- A study just out on “funerals” held by scrub jays has generated a lot of discussion about what these noisy gatherings of jays around fallen members of their species represent or mean. It is…

  • Groups to Litigate Wyoming Wolf Delisting

    Ken Cole

    Today, several groups filed a notice of intent (NOI) to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) over its decision to delist wolves in Wyoming. Delisting comes after USFWS accepted the minor changes made to the Wyoming wolf management plan which allows wolves to be killed by anyone, for any reason, and by any method…

  • New wildfire grows rapidly just south of Jackson, WY

    Ralph Maughan

    Human-caused fire just one ridge south of Cache Creek! Revised on 9/11 afternoon. All of the mountains immediately south of Jackson, WY have been closed due to the Little Horsethief Fire Horsethief Canyon Fire that started from an illegal private trash fire late Saturday and now is over 1500 2600 acres just south of the…

  • Happy day! Brook trout to be poisoned. Yellowstone Park creeks will be restocked with native cutthroat

    Ralph Maughan

    Rotenone poisoning begins Sept 10 in Elk Creek to eliminate non-native brook trout- Tomorrow eradication of brook trout will begin at Elk Creek. So too Lost and Yancy Creek tributaries of Elk Creek will be dosed with the fish poison rotenone. Before the project is over non-native fish are slated to be eliminated from these…

  • Mustang Fire forces evacuation — U.S. 93 from Quartz Creek to North Fork, ID

    Ralph Maughan

    Red Flag warning day with leading east flank of 261,000 acre fire less than 2 miles from U.S 93- After several days of gentle breezes, Aug. 9 began with a “red flag” warning over all of Eastern and East Central Idaho.  High winds and the super dry forest, grass, and brush covering the Salmon River…

  • Bad summer in U.S. for zoonoses

    Ralph Maughan

    West Nile, Hantavirus, Plague- A zoonosis is an infectious disease transmitted between species, especially from animals to humans and vice versa. New strains of influenza are usually a zoonosis having emerged from DNA mixing in geese, pigs, birds and the like, but The Wildlife News is generally  concerned with zooneses like Rocky Mountain spotted fever…

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