The Wildlife News

March 26, 2007

  • 2006 was another good year for hunting in Idaho

    Ralph Maughan

    Earlier I posted a very long time series of statistics on Idaho hunts. The news for 2006 has been released, the the elk hunt figures were about the same as the last two years. Hunters tagged 20,257 elk in 2006, down slightly from 21,520 in 2005 and 20,925 in 2004. This success rate was 19.5%;…

  • Montana asks Ottawa to review B.C. coal mine. Coal pit endangers river, MT governor warns

    Ralph Maughan

    Montana officials, were given the bum’s rush in with complaints to the B.C. government about the forthcoming Cline open pit coal mine near Glacier National park inside British Columbia. Governor Schweitzer has taken the matter to the national level in Canada. Schweitzer is requesting a review under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act saying he has…

  • Bush administration reinterprets species law: officials say endangered wildlife will be helped, activists plan to sue

    Ralph Maughan

    This from over at Carnivore Conservation. . . Bush administration reinterprets species law: officials say endangered wildlife will be helped, activists plan to sue. Actually I don’t think this is Bush, but rather Kempthorne. As governor of Idaho he even opened an office of species conservation, the focus of which was anything but species conservation.…

  • Drilling critics get D.C. hearing

    Ralph Maughan

    The House Natural Resources Committee continues to give voice to interests that were suppressed during reign of the Pombo, the corrupt former committee chair. Drilling critics get D.C. hearing. By Judith Kohler. Casper Star Tribune. UPDATE, 3-29 Energy boom hurts wildlife, lands access, advocates say. By Noelle Straub. Billings Gazette Washington Bureau. A diverse group…

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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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