December 21, 2006

  • Feds want more WY gas wells even as deer decline

    Ralph Maughan

    I posted this article as part of a comment yesterday, but it deserves its own post. The natural gas industry is the major threat to elk and deer in Wyoming (and, of course, chronic wasting disease). I have always thought the state’s anti-wolf rhetoric was mostly designed to divert attention away from the industialization of…

  • Wild Bill writes about "the most pro-wolf state of them all.

    Ralph Maughan

    Wyoming, he says, although he is making a larger point. The most pro-wolf state of them. Bill Schneider. New West. My guess is that the delisting is really the courtesy of Dirk Kempthorne, former governor of Idaho, now Secretary of Interior; and I suspect that Wyoming never really thought they would get their wolf extermination,…

  • Idaho Statesman editorial worries about wolves under Idaho's governor-elect

    Ralph Maughan

    Idaho’s largest newspaper has this editorial this morning. Our View: Otter should tone down wolf rhetoric. Idaho Statesman. Note added on January 14, 2007. Although the link above has expired, it turns out that the Statesman was absolutely correct in its worries.

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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.”

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