The Wildlife News

September 11, 2006

  • Hearings on Montana's grizzly plan start soon (actually Sept. 11)

    Ralph Maughan

    Very important hearings on how many and where grizzlies will be allowed to live in Western Montana begin soon. The is a state, not a federal process. “The plan focuses on grizzly bears — or potential populations — in the Northern Continental Divide [NCDE], Cabinet-Yaak and Bitterroot ecosystems. The plan looks at grizzly bear populations…

  • WWP wins appeal of FS grazing decision on 191,000 acres in Martin Basin, Nevada

    Ralph Maughan

    The Western Watersheds Project continues its amazing run of appeals against Forest Service and BLM condoned livestock grazing abuses. Here they planned to open up part of the Santa Rosa Wilderness in Northern Nevada to livestock grazing, but the regional office of the Forest Service (region 4–Intermountain Region) struck down the new grazing “plan” by…

  • Officials hope to keep Derby Fire away from Big Timber

    Ralph Maughan

    Some residents of this town fear the fire will take their town. Personally, I doubt it because it is out on the plains. No forest connects the fire to the town. Map The fire is now 207,000 acres. Official hope to check Derby Fire. By Mike Stark. Billings Gazette.

Subscribe to get new posts right in your Inbox

‎”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

Latest Posts

×