The Wildlife News

A Project of Sage Steppe Wild

December 16, 2006

  • Preserving park bison gene pool a tough job

    Ralph Maughan

    This is a laudatory story on the operation and intent of bison quarantine facility a few miles north of Yellowstone Park at Corwin Springs, Montana. Preserving park bison gene pool a tough job. By Scott McMillion. Bozeman Chronicle.

  • Study says national parks pay their way.

    Ralph Maughan

    Actually they do much better than just pay their way. Story in the Casper Star Tribune. “Each dollar spent on a national park generates at least $4 of value, but despite that clear economic payoff the parks suffer from underfunding, a new study says.” A good question is, why does Congress underfund the national parks…

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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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