The Wildlife News

December 28, 2006

  • Muzzle wolf official?

    Ralph Maughan

    It looks like Mitch King, regional director for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is trying to undo a bit of damage he did recently because it certainly sounded like they were trying to muzzle Ed Bangs as the Service was trying to work out a deal with Wyoming, and a Wyoming state representative was…

  • Regulations Fence Out Successful [Mexican] Wolf Reintroduction

    Ralph Maughan

    The Center for Biological Diversity filed suit Dec. 14 to compel the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to implement reforms to the Mexican gray wolf reintroduction program that a scientific panel had urged back in June 2001. This was a wolf restoration program that was designed in a way that it could not possibly succeed.…

  • Kathleen Clarke, head of the BLM has resigned.

    Ralph Maughan

    As ePluribus Media says “There’s got to be more to this story.” We see the head of the largest of the national lands systems resign, and there’s just a tiny story on a slow media day, heading into New Year’s weekend. Clarke was in the dig-it-up, tear-it-up-mould of Gale Norton; and like Norton, left a…

  • Gale Norton will join Royal Dutch Shell

    Ralph Maughan

    Is anyone surprised? Story: Norton will join Royal Dutch Shell. The former Interior secretary has taken a job in Colorado as a general counsel in the unit working to recover oil from shale. By Steve McMillan Denver Post Staff Writer Here is Todd Wilkinson’s take on it in New West. Former Bush Interior Secretary Takes…

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