The Wildlife News

June 7, 2007

  • Stephen Colbert analyzes the NASA director's view on global warming, and related agencies

    Ralph Maughan

    You may be amused. I tell my students you will learn more of what’s going on by watching the “fake news” by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert than watching Fox News, CNN, etc.

  • Recent stories about the bison issue near West Yellowstone

    Ralph Maughan

    This came from a Buffalo Field Campaign news release today. Buffalo in the News 6/5/07 LTE: Golden Pen Award ~ Right a wrong, preserve wild bison. Billings Gazette (Montana)http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/06/03/opinion/letters/46-golden.txt 6/5/07 LTE: Bison wrong target for DOL slaughter. Billings Gazette (Montana)http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/06/03/opinion/letters/50-wrongtarget.txt 6/4/07 Officials hopeful they won’t have to truck renegade bison Billings Gazette (Montana) http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/06/04/news/wyoming/15-bison.txt 6/2/07…

  • Gov. Freudenthal asks Congress to keep alive late Senator Thomas' bill to save Wyoming Range from the drillers.

    Ralph Maughan

    Freudenthal: Keep Thomas’ proposal alive. Before his death, senator worked on Wyoming Front bill. Billings Gazette. By The Associated Press. Hopefully for the great scenery and wildlife in the area, this plea will turn out to be more than an nice sentiment upon the death of Senator Thomas.

  • The Exterminators (about Wildlife Services)

    Ralph Maughan

    The Missoula Independent takes a look at Wildlife Services, formerly more transparently named Animal Damage Control (and earlier misnamed the Biological Survey). Wildlife Services is the federal government’s killer of “problem” wildlife. They have been controversial for years, with major opposition emerging to them among scientists as early as 1930. It is their preemptive (non-targeted…

  • No more brucellosis found in Montana cattle; bison herd remains inside Yellowstone

    Ralph Maughan

    The repreive given the bison has worked so far,  and no more brucellosis has been found in testing of cattle around Montana. I wouldn’t be surprised if it is never determined how the cattle at Bridger, Montana got brucellosis. Story in Billings Gazette. By Jan Falstad

  • Wild Bill: The Sage Grouse Dilemma

    Ralph Maughan

    Bill Schneider writes about the dilemma wildlife managers have in conserving the sage grouse, a species that absolutely depends on large, and largely undisturbed tracts of sagebrush for survival. It it clear the energy companies are driving the beautiful bird to extinction and the ESA clearly should stop them. However, these are the oil companies…

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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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