The Wildlife News

October 2007

  • Idaho Statesman says "Luring bears goes against common sense"

    Ralph Maughan

    After all the bears coming into town and the very rare shooting of a central Idaho grizzly over bait, Idaho’s biggest newspaper comes out against the continuation of bear baiting. Luring bears goes against common sense

  • Idaho's Mike Simpson picks up Craig's range ideas

    Ralph Maughan

    There is an important story in the WWP blog. Idaho’s one kinda moderate member of Congress (Rep. Mike Simpson, 2nd district) is stepping in to fill Craig’s stance on grazing and wildfires.

  • The Greater Yellowstone brims with grizzly cubs this year

    Ralph Maughan

    As posted some weeks ago, this was a fine year for the whitebark pine nuts in the Greater Yellowstone area. So was last year, and one result is a lot of grizzly bear cubs born and survived. Yellowstone brims with grizzly cubs. By Mike Stark. Billings Gazette. The article above and Rocky Barker’s blog both…

  • Lost River Mountains sure are pretty except . . .

    Ralph Maughan

    . . . . when you look down at your feet in the meadows. We went on a range inspection tour Oct. 2, 2007. We inspected the Pass Creek Grazing Allotment. The photo below shows a headwaters tributary of Wet Creek, an important Bull Trout stream. The little stream (Pine Creek) gradually gained water —…

  • Judge Orders Pygmy Rabbit Endangered Species Consideration

    Ralph Maughan

    This is pretty amazing because federal judge Edward Lodge of Idaho rarely rules in favor of conservation groups. Once again this shows how compromised the Bush/Kempthorne USFWS is. News Release For more information Katie Fite, Western Watersheds Project, (208) 871-5738 Todd Tucci, Advocates for the West, (208) 342-7024 Duane Short, Biodiversity Conservation Alliance, (307) 742-7978…

  • Wolf kills Labrador in Ninemile [Valley]

    Ralph Maughan

    I made a brief note of this earlier, but the Missoulian did a full story on it. The Ninemile Wolf Pack goes way back to 1990, well before the wolf reintroduction. This has happened before there. Of course, as time goes by people forget. Most years the Ninemile Pack kills a few livestock or pets.…

  • Arctic Melt Unnerves the Experts

    Ralph Maughan

    Arctic Melt Unnerves the Experts. By Andrew C. Revkin. New York Times. The rate of melt was faster than almost all the model simulations had predicted. What about the near future?

  • Rocky Barker's blog: Roadless rule resolution may wait for next administration

    Ralph Maughan

    Rocky Barker’s blog: Roadless rule resolution may wait for next administration. Rocky Barker. Idaho Statesman. Barkers writes about the latest chapter in the struggle over national forest roadless areas. This is a battle that has been going on since the early 1970s, but especially since President Bill Clinton gave an executive order to protect all…

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