Leadore, Idaho: After a period of indecision, the mountain bluebirds have made their choice — this year, it’s the nest box out by the west fence. The tree swallows now have uncontested claim to the nest box on the post above the east gate, while the house wrens seem to have won the house on the [...]
Continue Reading →I recently attended the wolf hearings held by the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission in Helena.
The commission is considering initiation of a trapping season, as well as eliminating quotas on the number of wolves that may be killed. The goal is to significantly reduce the state’s wolf population which currently numbers [...]
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Continue Reading →My second book came out last November from Oregon State University Press. Light on the Devils is another memoir about life in the logging country of northern California, this time on the middle Klamath River in the communities of Happy Camp and Seiad Valley. In 1962, my stepfather took his forestry [...]
Continue Reading →Numerous wind turbines now erected in Spring Valley, Nevada-
The project to install 66, 275 foot tall wind turbines directly below the heights of Great Basin National Park, Nevada is now well underway as the April 22, 2012 photo shows. Nevada’s first wind farm, which will disturb almost 15 square miles, was approved by the [...]
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Withdrawal of a cattle association from a wolf restoration program hardly a sign of failure-
If we look at the history of land use in the Western United States, we find many different political interests. Some are ideological, some economic, some are both. Historically the various statewide cattle associations and stockgrower associations have been the [...]
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Continue Reading →It is time that we put up a new thread for your wildlife news. Please post your news and comments below in the box.
As a suggestion, sometimes, if you have a lot to say, it is smart to write your comments on text editor (like Notepad) so you can save them and check them for [...]
Continue Reading →In reading some of the comments posted in response to stories run on The Wildlife News this week, I was interested to see a few very heated exchanges concerning humans’ role in determining how animals die. These comments reminded me of a presentation I saw this past November at the annual meeting of the Wildlife [...]
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