Month: April 2007
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Coal bed methane drilling causes appearance of eery methane springs in SW Wyoming area.
A massive escape of methane gas is underway near Baggs, Wyoming as the result of drilling coal-bed methane wells. Coal bed methane is obtained by drilling into the aquifer in a bed of coal. Water rushes out, with lots of dissolved methane. The methane is captured. Very nice, except for the dirty water and now…
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Wolves & Elk: The overriding issue in delisting
Rocky Barker has a major story in today’s Idaho Statesman. “Wolves and Elk: The overriding issue in delisting.” The wolves-killing-livestock-thing has never amounted to much despite efforts by some to make 30 to 50 dead cows (mostly calves) a year in a state look like a unparalleled catastrophe. The real issue is the perception that…
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Spring coming slowly to SE Idaho
Spring is coming slowly to southeast Idaho. After a warm and dry March and early April, the weather has turned cool and rainy. I took this photo today on CRP land in lonely Arbon Valley. Those are the Deep Creek Mountains. Several of the big valleys of southern Idaho have more CRP (conservation reserve program)…
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Gray wolf population in Wisconsin has 'taken off'
The wolf population continues to grow in “the badger state.” Story in the Green Bay Gazette. It’s getting close to 600. The state is now taking over management. Wolves have been treated much more gently in the Great Lakes states than in Idaho, Montana or Wyoming, and I think it’s really too bad that three…
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Playing Politics with Endangered Species: Beginning of the End for the Yellowstone Grizzly?
Essay by Doug Peacock in Counterpunch. To most Doug Peacock needs no introduction. post 1044
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600 people show for Cody's delisting hearing.
The largest of any of the wolf delisting hearings was held in Cody, Wyoming on Thursday. The Billings Gazette said 600 people were there. Although anti-wolf folks were the majority, I’m proud of those who spoke for reasonable wolf management. It took guts to go to and speak in a meeting carefully crafted by Wyoming…
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Kathie Lynch's detailed report on Yellowstone northern range happenings, April 7-15, 2007
Post 1042 When I posted my short update on what had been happening on the Northern Range yesterday, I didn’t know that Kathie Lynch was about to send a report. It follows, and answers some of the detailed questions people had. Thanks for another excellent report, Kathie. YNP WOLF field notes, April 7-15, 2007: My…
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Sundles finally sentenced
A lot of folks had wondered whatever happened to the charges against now-convicted and sentenced would-be wolf poisoner Tim Sundles. Here is the story from Reuters. Man sentenced for seeking to poison wolves. By Laura Zuckerman. post 1041