The Wildlife News

October 22, 2006

  • Western Watersheds Project saves giant junipers on remote Nevada Mountain from chaining

    Ralph Maughan

    Story in Sun Valley on-line. WWP keeps on beating the BLM. This time it was on remote Spruce Mountain of north central Nevada. Chaining junipers is claimed to be a way of restoring grasslands where junipers have invaded and shaded out the grass. Of course, if the junipers are very large the notion of invasion…

  • Five Western Slope Spots Dubbed ‘Too Wild to Drill’

    Ralph Maughan

    The article is talking about the West Slope of the Rockies in Colorado. However, it is not the gas industry or the BLM who thinks they are too wild to drill. The places listed are: – The Roan Plateau – The Clear Fork Divide – Grand Mesa Slopes – Vermillion Basin – HD Mountains Article…

  • Annual Grand Teton NP elk hunt is underway

    Ralph Maughan

    The annual “elk reduction” hunt opened Saturday. It is in a small portion of the Park and the National Elk Refuge, and has always been very popular. It’s also controversial because it is a national park and the elk are migrating, mostly in the open, to their winter range on the Refuge. All issues regarding…

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Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

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