The Wildlife News

A Project of Sage Steppe Wild

February 8, 2007

  • NREPA — Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act is dusted off.

    Ralph Maughan

    NREPA is a grand wilderness vision and more, but had fallen on hard times in the Republican congresses. NREPA is back, with a greater chance, now that Congress has turned greener. Its name has been changed to the “Rockies Prosperity Act.” Here is the bill’s text. Bill Schneider at New West has a favorable review.…

  • Case of echinococcus granulosus hyped by anti-wolf group.

    Ralph Maughan

    I warned folks of the dangers of coyote, dog, fox, and wolf scat last September. Article. Now a rare case of  echinococcus granulosus (disseminated tapeworm cysts) has shown up in an elk shot near Paradise Valley north of Yellowstone Park. An anti-wolf group is trying to make it an issue, although among canids the ratio…

  • Wolf delisting rules are finally published in the Federal Register

    Ralph Maughan

    Although many people may have belived the rules delisting the wolf were already out there for public comment, that was not the case. The final rule for delisting in the Great Lakes was published today, as was the proposed rule for the Northern Rockies. Here are the links. You have 60 days to comment. Don’t…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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