The Wildlife News

February 2007

  • Is momentum building to rip out salmon and steelhead-killing dams?

    Ralph Maughan

    There is finally movement to rid the Klamath River in northern California of its salmon-killing dams and probably those on the Snake River in Washington State which have greatly reduced salmon and steelhead runs upsteam in Idaho. While the dams generate some hydropower and a bit of barge traffic to Lewiston, Idaho, the ruination of…

  • Fewer elk to be fed on National Elk Refuge

    Ralph Maughan

    In response to a past lawsuit, the National Elk Refuge at Jackson, Wyoming has announced it will feed fewer elk, probably, therefore, reducing the size of the Jackson Hole Elk Herd. The plan is to also reduce the Jackson Hole bison herd by half, a good idea because, unlike Yellowstone Park bison, the Jackson bison…

  • Montana Bill favors wolf, grizzly hunts

    Ralph Maughan

    The state of Montana has moved quickly to authorize wolf hunting and grizzly hunting (the grizzly bear in the Greater Yellowstone is expected to be delisted soon too). While most folks expect Montana to be much more moderate than Idaho, the bill sets a low tag fee for wolves (lower than Idaho’s), and apparently doesn’t…

  • Molly Ivins told how the Western Watersheds Project came to be.

    Ralph Maughan

    Once upon a time it was the Idaho Watersheds Project. Now on the occasion of her losing battle with breast cancer, in the honor of the late Molly Ivins, here is her 1998 article as to how the Idaho Watersheds Projects was born (with colorful characterizations of Idaho politicians present and past . . .…

  • Is 650 wolves in Idaho a lot, or not?

    Ralph Maughan

    There are about 650 wolves in Idaho. To hear some tell, this “incredible” number is devastating the big game herds, menacing people, and driving farmers from their lands. “How many do you want. When will the “wolf-lovers” ever be satisfied?” I’m a friend of the wolf, and its prey. I’m a friend of the cougar…

  • The Jarbidge bull trout

    Ralph Maughan

    Here’s a story on a variety of bull trout, restricted to the remote, but not untrammeled waters of the Idaho/Nevada border. Magic Valley Times-News. A whole lot of bull. Extensive survey tallies unusual trout. By Matt Christensen. Times-News writer

  • Open Houses scheduled on the Pocatello BLM Resource Management Plan (RMP)

    Ralph Maughan

    This is not of great interest to many, but to those in Eastern Idaho it is. I posted the schedule of the public open houses below. I understand it is a bad plan, unless you like to see public land sold and/or overgrazed.

  • Wild Bill finds it Hard to Celebrate Wolf Delisting

    Ralph Maughan

    “It’s party time, right? Time to celebrate the amazing comeback of Canis lupus irremotus, the Northern Rocky Mountain Wolf,” from “Why it’s hard to Celebrate Wolf Delisting.” In his latest column in New West Bill Schneider takes a close look at why this delisting stirs up division, not celebration.

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Edward Abbey

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Jim Fowler

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