August 2006
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The Trailhead Fire nearly Stanley, Idaho is hardly the only wildfire in Idaho. Idaho currently has more forest fires than any other state. Thick smoke covers about half the state. There are a number of fires larger than the Trailhead, and they have been very active. Read more in the Challis Messinger. By Todd Adams.…
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The “Trailhead fire” comes boiling over the top of the Sawtooth Range into Stanley Basin. Copyright Lynne Stone The mountains around Stanley Basin and the Sawtooth Valley, Idaho, have, in recent years, witnessed a huge die-off of lodgepole pine. This relatively short-lived pine is plenty flammable even when it is green. When dead, it is…
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Yellowstone Park’s most famous wolf pack, the Druid Peak Pack, had declined to just 4 wolves by the end of 2005. But my how things can change.
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AP. State wildlife biologist Pat Matthews doesn’t have to see the moose to know they’re moving into Oregon from neighboring Idaho in record numbers. The 118 piles of droppings he saw on a walk along an overgrown logging road in northeastern Oregon told the tale. There may be about 30 moose, including eight bulls, in…
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August though November is the toughest time for wolves. Their prey are fleet and strong. Wolf pups are big, hungry, and no help in the hunt. Wolf packs are nutritionally stressed and are most likely then to sample mutton or beef. The hunting season, however, is a gift for wolves — gut piles and wounded…
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Last April a large wolf-like “canid” was found dead along I-90 east of Sturgis, SD. Examination of its stomach contents showed it had been subsisting on deer. Was it a wolf, a wolf hybrid, a pet wolf that had been released? After much laboratory investigation and genetic analysis, it turns out it was a wolf…