The Wildlife News

October 11, 2007

  • Yellowstone Wolves: Embattled Again

    Ralph Maughan

    Time Magazine sounds the alarm! The headline is misleading because Yellowstone National Park’s wolves are not embattled except indirectly by gradual deterioration of their genetics if adjacent non-Park wolf packs are eliminated. Nevertheless, the article makes it clear the 1200 or so wolves outside the Park are probably threatened with a large reduction in their…

  • Massive Wilderness Bill Inches Forward—13 Years Later

    Ralph Maughan

    This is a report in New West on NREPA, which is getting its first ever hearing in Congress. Opponents have always argued that the grand Northern Rockies Ecosystem Projection Act isn’t’ politically feasible, but bills that are commonly hailed as “feasible” have not been enacted either. There are a few exceptions in greener places like…

  • Bison advocate convicted of obstructing peace officer while filming hazing

    Ralph Maughan

    Folks might recall when Dan Brister was injured and arrested last winter while videoing the Montana DOL haze bison north of West Yellowstone, Montana. He is project director for the Buffalo Field Campaign. He had a jury trial and was convicted of obstructing a peace officer after a one-day trial in Gallatin County Justice Court.…

  • Senate Subcommittee considers Great Basin management

    Brian Ertz

    The Senate Public Lands and Forests Subcommittee is holding a hearing in Las Vegas today ~ Thursday, October 11 ~ to discuss threats to the Great Basin. From what I gather, fire and cheatgrass will be highlighted on the agenda. Subscription only article from E & E : The Senate Public Lands and Forests Subcommittee…

  • Global Warming, Western Ranching, and the Bovine Curtain

    Ralph Maughan

    Global Warming, Western Ranching, and the Bovine Curtain. This is from the WWP blog linking to an opinion by George Wuerthner as to how cattle contribute mightily to global climate change. Just like the old Iron Curtain that squelched any critical discussion of Communism’s failures, we in the West live behind a “Bovine Curtain.” The…

  • NCDE grizzly bear study deserves assured funding

    Ralph Maughan

    The Northern Continental Divide ecosystem in northwest central Montana is the second largest grizzly population in the lower 48 states. It consists of Glacier National Park, the Great Bear, Bob Marshall, Scapegoat, and Mission Mountains wilderness areas and several million acres of adjacent roaded and unroaded, public and private land. A sophisticated population size study…

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