The Wildlife News

January 2007

  • Cloud seeding plan for the Wind River Range stirs fears

    Ralph Maughan

    The Wyoming Association of Conservation Districts wants to try cloud seeding to increase snowfall over the tall Wind River Range (the highest mountains in Wyoming). Because the Winds are mostly designated Wilderness, this human modification is controversial. However, by far the largest change to the range is the huge increase in human pollution just beneath…

  • Montana governor appoints two replacements to the Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission.

    Ralph Maughan

    When it comes to wildlife management at the state level, few things are more important than who gets on the state’s “Fish and Game,” “Willdife Commission,” “Wildlife and Natural Resources Board,” or what ever it is called. In most states, many of these appointees are “good ol boys and girls” who know little of about…

  • USFWS has a "genetics based" approach underway for national wildlife refuge bison to eliminate cattle genes

    Ralph Maughan

    Here is the story. Unfortunately many bison on various national wildlife refuges are polluted with cattle genes. This program will help eliminate that.

  • Oil and Gas Boom Raises Air Pollution Fears in West

    Ralph Maughan

    This is from David Frey writing in New West. “Oil and Gas Boom Raises Air Pollution Fears in West.” However, it is not just oil and gas, it is also coal-fired power plants. There is really only one area left in the West where visibility is virtually unimpaired from human impacts. That is Northern Nevada,…

  • New photo of the Agates

    Ralph Maughan

    Mark Miller, photographer in Gardiner, Montana, sent me a new photo of the Agate Creek Pack in the Lamar Valley. The one I posted recently had some cropping problems (on my end). Hopefully, this one is better. Alpha Wolf 113M is the large gray wolf on the left side in front of a black wolf.…

  • Year of the wolf: 2007 could be decisive year in long-running debate

    Ralph Maughan

    “Year of the wolf: 2007 could be decisive year in long-running debate.” By Whitney Royster. Casper Star-Tribune environmental reporter. It should be noted that Turnell, much quoted in the article, does not own the Pitchfork Ranch. He is the ranch manager. I understand the owners are out-of-state. The Pitchfork Ranch is not a typical ranch,…

  • Gillet trying again to get wolf removal initiative on Idaho ballot.

    Ralph Maughan

    New effort to banish wolves from Idaho/ Sponsor of thwarted initiative to try again. By John Miller. AP Anti-wolf activist Ron Gillet of Stanley, Idaho is going to try again to get enough signatures to put an anti-wolf initiative on the Idaho ballot. According to John Miller’s article, the proposed ballot initiative calls for the…

  • Biologist: Bison hurt National Elk Refuge at Jackson, WY

    Ralph Maughan

    Doug Brimeyer, wildlife biologist for the Wyoming Game and Fish Department in Jackson, said there are “way too many” bison, and hunters can’t help thin the herd significantly. This is from the Casper Star Tribune. Story by Whitney Royster. There is a bison hunt every year on the Bridger-Teton National Forest, adjacent to Grand Teton…

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