The Wildlife News

A Project of Sage Steppe Wild

October 5, 2006

  • For news on the Mexican wolf

    Ralph Maughan

    I try to cover the struggling Mexican wolf reintroduction project, but I am very spotty in my knowledge of countryside there. I don’t know the politics or the people, although I have read a lot about Catron County, New Mexico. Here are two government sites that will help those interested- “Mexican Wolf Reintroduction Project News”…

  • Farmers/ranchers and the blight of industrial corn

    Ralph Maughan

    I recently ran across the book Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan. I was at a meeting so I only had time to read a couple chapters, but the one on “Industrial corn” had a profound effect on me. I have ordered a copy, and yet it already leads me to post. Pollan cited an old…

  • As Wolf Population Thrives, Livestock Predation Doesn't Follow Suit

    Ralph Maughan

    I missed this article in the Billings Gazette. Fortunately the Western Watersheds Project picked it up. The facts are important because almost everyone, including some of the wolf project managers, had predicted that livestock predation would increase faster than the wolf population as wolves moved to less desirable habitat. Read WWP story.

  • Fire salvage logging in Oregon lost money

    Ralph Maughan

    After almost every forest fire, there is a push for salvage logging based on the idea that the forest is destroyed, so some of its former value needs to be captured. Folks who have watched salvage logging know that instead, the practice often introduces weed seeds, actually sets back forest regrowth and loses money too.…

  • Idaho wolf kill shot down, anyone suprised?

    Ralph Maughan

    This is from Wild Bill (Bill Schneider) over at New West. Read column.

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