The Wildlife News

October 14, 2006

  • Utah offers bounty for dead coyote ears

    Ralph Maughan

    “In an effort to help increase the deer population and also protect grazing sheep in Utah, the state provides money to eight Utah counties to pay bounties for killing coyotes.” Read the story in in Tooele Transcript Bulletin. Tooele is pronounced (TA will a). Offering bounties on coyotes is a long discredited program, nevertheless it…

  • Reality in WY shows lie in oil and gas industry propaganda

    Ralph Maughan

    We’ve all seen on TV and printed ads how sensitive about the land the oil industry is. They drill many wells from just one pad, avoiding surfance disturbance. If the land cannot bear any suface occupancy, they drill at an angle under it (called “directional drilling”). Yes, they can do these things, just like it…

  • More folks in WY realize how much their wildlife and land heritage will pay for oil and gas

    Ralph Maughan

    There has been a sudden realization that the massive industrialization of Wyoming’s open spaces by the natural gas industry is making a wrenching change to the state’s outdoor heritage — its clean air, vistas, wildlife. Today there were numerous newspaper stories on the seemingly unstoppable conquest of Wyoming by the petroleum industry. ‘We’re going to…

  • USFWS say Rock Creek mine will benefit grizzly bears

    Ralph Maughan

    Folks have been fighting the proposed Rock Creek mine in the Cabinet Mountains of NW Montana for about 20 years now. It has been stalled. Now the USFWS has rewritten its earlier objection to the mine saying that with all the money for mitigation work planned, the grizzly will actually benefit. This may be so.…

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‎”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

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