The Wildlife News

November 2007

  • Record number of elk in Montana, but poor elk hunting season due to warm weather

    Ralph Maughan

    Story in the Missoulian. The gang’s all there: Elk season progressing slowly, but warm weather is main culprit. By Perry Backus of the Missoulian.

  • Latest issue of the newsletter of the Western Watersheds Project

    Ralph Maughan

    It’s called the “Watersheds Messenger.” I think most people will find it an interesting and valuable read. Nov. 2007 issue.

  • Entire wolf pack of rare Mexican Wolves Missing in Gila National Forest

    Ralph Maughan

    Wolves Missing In Gila Forest. By Rene Romo. Copyright © 2007 Albuquerque Journal; Journal Southern Bureau Update: Governor Richardson: Disappearance of wolf pack is ‘disturbing.’ KVIA.com. As we know, Governor Richardson is running for President. One way to show leadership in the area domestic terrorism would be to clean up the long-term trouble-makers in the…

  • Sylvan Pass will stay open

    Ralph Maughan

    The final decision for winter use for Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks has been signed. Sylvan Pass will remain open this winter with the use of howitzers and helicopters for avalanche control despite the huge cost of doing so for a trickle of snowmobilers. The Park Service, however, will not send personnel up to…

  • EPA initiates first steps to ban two nasty wildlife poisons

    Ralph Maughan

    Sodium cyanide and sodium fluoroacetate — Compound 1080 — are both used to kill wild mammals. They frequently kill non-target species and they have been used to illegally kill wolves in Idaho. Both would be excellent weapons for terrorists to use. 1080 causes a painful, awful death. Please help get them banned. I have a…

  • Regeneration of ungrazed sagebrush steppe

    Ralph Maughan

    The photo below was taken on Nov. 18 on a hillside that in late August was dusty, brown, apparently dead, but not grazed by cows. It is about a 2 by 3 foot area just below a sagebrush (not shown) in the Bannock Range south of Pocatello. Where cattle have not destroyed the structure of…

  • Wyoming Game and Fish passes final wolf plan

    Ralph Maughan

    The wheels greased for its acceptance by the Bush Administration, the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission met in Thermopolis, Wyoming and passed the much criticized Wyoming state wolf management plan, which is bad for wolves in almost every way. Only two conservationists testified, Franz Camenzind of the Jackson Hole Alliance and Lisa Upson of the…

  • Study links wolves, coyotes of Bay State

    Ralph Maughan

    Study links wolves, coyotes of Bay State.  By Stan Freeman. The Republican Dr. John Way (who frequently comments on this blog said) “The results seem to show that, on average, roughly 10 to 15 percent of the genetic makeup of our Eastern coyotes is Eastern wolf. . . . However, some of the individuals studied…

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