The Wildlife News

February 2007

  • Why is Butch afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?

    Ralph Maughan

    This is from Alan Gregory’s Conservation News Blog. Why is Butch [Otter] afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?

  • Dale Bosworth talks about his tenure as Chief Forester

    Ralph Maughan

    Recently retired  Chief Forester Bosworth sat down with John S. Adams of the Missoula Independent. Coming Home. By John S. Adams. Former Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth on fire, frustration and the future of the woods Dale Bosworth returned to Missoula last week after a six-year stint in Washington, D.C., as chief of the U.S.…

  • Congress puts focus on West's evolution

    Ralph Maughan

    Actually what happened was the House Natural Resources Committee, now under new management 🙂 held a hearing on the transformation of the West’s economics and society, and balancing that with conserving the beauty and resources. The most notable thing was those who were invited to testify — no oil company lobbyists and land developers like…

  • Too many ATVs in Spread Creek, WY area; scare elk

    Ralph Maughan

    Spread Creek rises east of Jackson Hole and flow into the Park. It is terrible fishing because it was degraded by a dam to divert waters to Elk Ranch Reservoir for irrigating hayfields for CATTLE inside Grand Teton National Park. The lower reaches of Spread Creek are lousy for fish, but the country around it…

  • A winter of failure for brucellosis elk trapping near Pinedale, WY

    Ralph Maughan

    In the second year of a project called “sadly misconceived” by conservationists, 173 elk were trapped at Muddy Creek feedground near Pinedale. 79 of the elk were adult females. 13 of the 79 tested seropositive for brucellosis and were slaughtered. “Seropositive” means the elk had antibodies — they had been exposed to brucellosis. A smaller…

  • Defending the West is virtue

    Ralph Maughan

    At Potamogeton Park, Madison Range, Montana. Gallatin National Forest. Photo by Ralph Maughan I believe that spending as much of your life as possible defending the Western lands, water, air and wildlife is an act of pure virtue.Your actions needs no other justification, but make sure you get plenty of time out on the land…

  • Do supporters of wolf recovery hate elk?

    Ralph Maughan

    This should be so obvious, but I has finally dawned on me that many elk hunters think that those who have supported the wolf restoration, hate elk, or at best are indifferent to elk. Because wolves eat elk, deer, moose, etc. it should be obvious that wolf supporters have a great interest in the health…

  • Ex-Forest Service chief backs most of Clinton-era `roadless rule'

    Ralph Maughan

    Now that Dale Bosworth is a free man, but no longer a person with authority as when he was Bush’s Chief of the U.S. Forest Service, he tells us that he basically supported President’s Clinton’s national forest roadless area protection role, not Bush’s. I can only hope he did his best to sabotage the Bush…

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Edward Abbey

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Jim Fowler

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