The Wildlife News

December 2006

  • Wolves In and Around Yellowstone (course Feb. 1-4, 2007)

    Ralph Maughan

    Wolves In and Around Yellowstone Start: February 1 at 7 p.m. End: February 4 at 4 p.m. Location: Gardiner, Montana Instructors: Nathan Varley, Ph.D. Candidate & Linda Thurston, M.S. $340 Limit: 19 Credit Pending The wolves in Yellowstone annually attract thousands of visitors hoping to see and hear these top predators. Are wolves as welcomed…

  • Voters put 'conserve' back in conservative

    Ralph Maughan

    Voters put ‘conserve’ back in conservative. By Blaine Harden. The Washington Post. There has been a lot of this happy talk lately. I hope it’s true, but certainly haven’t seen anything in the agencies or on the ground to indicate that anything has changed except that the Western outdoors is being destroyed at an increasing…

  • Wolves retain protected status in Europe

    Ralph Maughan

    Switzerland has a population of 3 or 4 wolves and apparently wanted a “hunting season.” European Commission refuses to downgrade wolf protected status in Europe. WWF newsroom. This article appears in a number of other places too.

  • Sportsmen for "feeding and whining" proposes supplying food on National Elk Refuge

    Ralph Maughan

    SFW Wyoming wants to supplement the alfalfa pellets fed elk and bison on the National Elk Refuge at Jackson, WY, with hay. The National Elk Refuge has all the alfalfa pellets it can possibly use. Hay was abandoned in favor of pellets many years ago. Hay is more likely to spread disease because, unlike the…

  • 2-decade effort has kept the black-footed ferret alive

    Ralph Maughan

    The black-footed ferret, which preys exclusively on prairie dogs, was thought perhaps to be extinct 25 years ago when it was rediscovered living on a large ranch west of Meeteetse, Wyoming. The result of this discovery has been a shaky recovery of the species. The article below tells the story. Story in the Billings Gazette.…

  • Sundles said to plead guilty of trying to poison wolves with poison meatballs

    Ralph Maughan

    Tim Sundles from the Salmon, Idaho area will plead guilty next week to spreading poison meatballs on the Salmon-Challis National Forest in an effort to illegally poison wolves. Back in 2004 a number of poison meatballs turned up and dogs were killed or sickened.. Story in Reuters. Added on Dec. 6. There is more on…

  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service makes another 2006 wolf pop. estimate

    Ralph Maughan

    This is the second wolf population estimate this year. The official final figures will be released about next March or April 2006. The estimate is for wolves in the 3-state Northern Rockies “experimental, non-essential” wolf population area. That means Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. Yellowstone National Park is mostly in Wyoming, but part is in Montana…

  • Rearing cattle produces more greenhouse gases than driving cars, UN report warns

    Ralph Maughan

    The excerpt below is from the report, dramatic data on the toll cattle are having on our climate and our future. . . When emissions from land use and land use change are included, the livestock sector accounts for 9 per cent of CO2 deriving from human-related activities, but produces a much larger share of…

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