The Wildlife News

February 6, 2007

  • Pic of a Wyoming state elk feedlot

    Ralph Maughan

    Folks have been wondering what these Wyoming state-run feedlots look like. The photo is of the Grays River feedlot, a few miles south of Alpine, WY and near the Idaho border (menace to Idaho elk). This small feedlot is right next to a busy highway and it has a fence on 3 sides. The photo…

  • Bush again proposes selling off national forest lands

    Ralph Maughan

    Time for outdoor enthusiasts to step up and slap down an Administration privatization scheme again. Fortunately Congress is now a lot more unfriendly to overt privatization schemes than a a year ago. Idaho’s Senator Larry Craig rejected the President’s latest privatization scheme today. Story in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Bush again proposes selling off national forest…

  • Zimo: Support for canned hunts is really scary

    Ralph Maughan

    Pete Zimowsky has written the hunting and fishing column for years at the Idaho Statesman. Recently he opined against shooting elk in a pen and calling it hunting. Zimo got hit from a web site where they think shooting caged animals is hunting. Zimo: Support for canned hunts is really scary. Idaho Statesman. I checked…

  • Mange makes its first appearance in Yellowstone Park

    Ralph Maughan

    The alpha male of Mollies Pack has been stricken with mange. While mange has been a persistent problem around the Park to the north in Montana and to east between the Park and Cody, this is the first case in the Park. Story in the Billings Gazette. When a wolf gets mange, it tends to…

  • For Wolves, a Recovery May Not Be the Blessing It Seems

    Ralph Maughan

    The latest NYT article on the ironic delisting of wolves — “they’re recovered now we can reduce their numbers again as close to zero as we can get away with.” For Wolves, a Recovery May Not Be the Blessing It Seems. New York Times.  By Jim Robbins.

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Edward Abbey

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Jim Fowler

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