The Wildlife News

November 2006

  • Montana study shows bears are the biggest predator of elk calves

    Ralph Maughan

    The study was conducted in the Garnet Range, east of Missoula, MT. However, a study reported over the last several years in Yellowstone Park showed the same thing, although there it was grizzly bears, not black bears. If we look over at Idaho, one of the criticisms of Idaho Fish and Game’s “science” in their…

  • WY Game and Fish takes a stand against winter gas drilling near Pinedale

    Ralph Maughan

    Due to a severe drought, forage conditions will be very poor this winter in the Green River Basin, and wintertime gas drilling makes matter much worse because it disturbs the wintering animals, reducing further their actual habitat. Gregg Arthur, Game and Fish deputy director wrote to the BLM that because of poor forage growth, “[W]e…

  • Moccasin Lake Pack, Montana

    Ralph Maughan

    While the Yellowstone Park packs are well know, those in the Greater Yellowstone, outside the Park are known much less, and photos are hard to come by. I was happy to get two photos of the Moccasin Lake Pack from MT Fish, Wildlife and Parks. Jon Trapp took them. This pack roams the foothills and…

  • Amenity buyers snapping up ranches in the Greater Yellowstone

    Ralph Maughan

    While many private lands are being sub-divided, many ranches simply have most of the livestock removed and the land is reclaimed for fish and wildlife around Greater Yellowstone as folks with a new perspective move in. The picture is more complicated, however. Mike Starks reports in the Billings Gazette on a study just completed on…

  • Wolves, cowboys and the truth

    Ralph Maughan

    Rob Edward and Wendy Keefover-Ring wrote this as a guest editorial in the Denver Post after the Post wrote one of the innumerable “Third-generation-Wyoming-rancher- Smith-lifted-his-craggy,-windswept-face genre stories-

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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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