The Wildlife News

December 15, 2006

  • Ed Bangs comments on possible Wyoming wolf deal

    Ralph Maughan

    Ed Bangs, the federal Gray Wolf Recovery Coordinator, commented on the possible deal on delisting Wyoming wolves. Wyoming’s official plan for state conservation of a recovered wolf population has been rejected by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Wyoming has sued to get it accepted. In his latest Gray Wolf Recovery Progress Report, Bangs wrote: WY…

  • Bacterial? infection fells 2000 mallards in southern Idaho

    Ralph Maughan

    2500 mallards die south of Burley. Bacterial infection is suspected cause of death. By Steve Benson, Idaho Mountain Express.

  • Grizzly bear payments were down in Montana for '06 – record high in Wyoming

    Ralph Maughan

    Only $9000 paid in Montana in 2006, but the State of Wyoming paid $110,000. The direct explanation for the difference is far fewer livestock killed in Montana than Wyoming. Indirectly, however, the Wyoming compensation formula for grizzly losses is so generous that there is no incentive to protect livestock from grizzlies. A grizzly loss can…

  • Judge orders new 3-state in dispute over grizzly habitat

    Ralph Maughan

    This is a big victory for those trying to protect the imperiled grizzly bear populations in extreme NW Montana (the Cabinet-Yaak population) and in the Panhandle of Idaho and NE Washington State (the Selkirk grizzly population). Story. By Perry Backus in the Missoulian

  • Yellowstone domes rising at 'really pronounced' pace

    Ralph Maughan

    Parts of the Yellowstone Caldera are swelling rapidly. The Sour Creek Dome just east of Haden Valley is rising 6 centimeters a year as (likely) magma flows in under it. Story in the Billings Gazette. By Mike Stark.

  • Feds propose wolf deal for Wyoming

    Ralph Maughan

    Right now wolves are allowed to range throughout Wyoming, but almost all of them are in Northwest Wyoming. The deal would let Wyoming have its way with wolves . . . kill them all outside of NW Wyoming. Wolves would be managed to maintain the required population in NW Wyoming. I have always believed Wyoming…

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