Month: October 2006

  • Wild horses drag photographer into rangelands

    Exhibition featuring Challis herd will open in Hailey [Idaho]. Idaho Mountain Express. There is a wild horse herd in Idaho. It’s near Challis. You can often see them in the East Fork of the Salmon on the Greenfire Preserve and the BLM land to the east. I have a feeling that wild horses are becoming…

  • Famous Idaho wolf who went Oregon found long dead

    Back 1998 a young female wolf swam the Snake River and crossed into Oregon from Idaho eventually settling in the Blue Mountains in what would be a fruitless search for a mate. However, wolf B45F wore a radio collar broadcasting her location, and after much controversy, she was captured and returned to central Idaho. Back…

  • Defenders announces success in non-lethal wolf management

    At a time when too often the federal agency Wildlife Services goes out and kills some wolves after a livestock depredation, Defenders of Wildlife reports success in stopped all the killing. Wildlife Services often gets authorized for a ten thousand dollar wolf killing operation for a couple dead sheep (but, hey it’s the American taxpayer…

  • Diseases affecting Yellowstone wildlife. Park, universities conduct research projects

    See article in the Billings Gazette by Mike Stark. Yellowstone Park has signed up Montana State University and the University of California at Davis to study and monitor wildlife diseases that beset the Park or threaten to. It is called the Yellowstone Wildlife Health Program. Wildlife diseases have long been an interest to me as…

  • In Idaho wilderness, researchers say wolves aren't decimating elk

    University of Idaho researchers Jim and Holly Akenson have been living at Taylor Ranch Field Station, deep in the Frank Church Wilderness, since at least 2000. It was in 2001 that I heard them present their first research results at our annual North American wolf conference. While this article does not cover all of their…

  • Can B.C. help save endangered [mountain] caribou?

    Not to be confused with the numerous barren ground caribou or the woodland caribou, the mountain caribou is faltering all over B.C. In the United States it would be, and in fact it is, an endangered species. A tiny herd hangs on in northern Idaho. It wanders back and forth over the border. This sad…

  • On the hunt for the elusive Adirondack wolf

    Biologist John Way suggested this article–“On the hunt for the elusive Adirondack wolf.” It seems that the belief that wolves have, or are about to reinhabit the Adirondacks is not new, nor is debate over what the eastern coyote really is.

  • Weekend photo. Pass Creek Gorge. October 2006

    Pass Creek gorge is one of the two routes dirt roads take to cross over the Lost River Range in east central Idaho Pass Creek Gorge. Lost River Mountains, Idaho. Copyright Ralph Maughan

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