The Wildlife News

A Project of Sage Steppe Wild

January 2007

  • Central Idaho elk, pride of the state

    Ralph Maughan

    A small part of a herd of 300 or so elk on Ayers Meadow in the Frank Church Wilderness in July, Central Idaho. This has always been great elk country, but several years ago cattle grazing in the drainage was bought out, so now these public lands have more elk than ever. Idaho –mule and…

  • Column: Due West by Dan Whipple. The Wolf’s At the Door

    Ralph Maughan

    This is a good column (published in New West). It doesn’t give any side of the issue a free pass, and is one of the first I have seen that looks carefully at Governor Freudenthal’s contradictory statements about wolves and big game. Freudenthal’s fundamental view of wolves: “This raises the interesting question of whether any…

  • Feds move forward on delisting Idaho wolves (story from Wood River Valley newspaper)

    Ralph Maughan

    This is from the Idaho Mountain Express. Hunting season specifics will not be nailed down for several months. By Steve Benson. There is also a LTE by Lynne Stone in this issue of the Mountain Express. “Get Wolf Facts Straight.”

  • Idaho Legislators may tinker with elk ranching laws

    Ralph Maughan

    Legislators may tinker with elk ranching laws. By Roger Phillips. I was talking with a leader in a major sportsman organization the other night. He said the Idaho legislature was likely to do nothing of importance to restore fair chase hunting in Idaho, and he was talking ballot initiative to solve the problem the way…

  • New York Times editorial: Mixed News for Wolves

    Ralph Maughan

    The country’s most influential newspaper has weighed in on the mixed message of the wolf delisting.  Mixed News for Wolves

  • Scientists Criticize White House Stance on Climate Change Findings

    Ralph Maughan

    The Democrats have held their first of undoubtedly many oversight hearings on how the Bush Administration is, well, administering the laws. This is a basic role of Congress that was suppressed during the last 6 years of Republican congressional rule (the minority party in Congress can’t call hearings). Story in New York Times (you can…

  • Utah wolves are in line to lose protection in the delisting

    Ralph Maughan

    Technically there aren’t any wolves in Utah, although there really are probably a few in northern Utah. Nevertheless, Northern Utah was included in the Northern Rockies wolf delisting. So was Eastern Oregon and Eastern Washington. All these places would highly likely to see wolf in-migration. I can see only one reason for this — it’s…

  • Wolves alter elk hunting in Wyoming

    Ralph Maughan

    Story in the Caspter Star Tribune by Whitney Royster. Note that “altering elk hunting” is not the same as reducing the number of elk. This article takes pains to stress that. A lot of the complaint from some elk hunters is that they have to adapt to new conditions, and learning new techniques of hunting…

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