The Wildlife News

April 24, 2008

  • This web site now third most influential political blog in Idaho

    Ralph Maughan

    Here are the data. It varies from week to week, of course. One week it was number one, and almost always in the top ten. Lately, visits per weekday have been averaging well over 4000. It drops off a bit every weekend. Thanks for your support and so many excellent comments (to put it mildly).…

  • Another essay on wolf 253. Video

    Ralph Maughan

    The Delisting of wolf 253– Brian Connolly wrote “recently I sent out a few EarthDay e-cards with the statement: If enough of us speak up for the universe, It will tilt in our direction. I borrowed ‘speak up for the universe’ from Norman Maclean’s father.” “Mike O’Connell and I and some wonderful photographers are doing…

  • Idaho anti-wolf petition is falling short

    Ralph Maughan

    Anti-Wolf Petition Drive Falling Short. From Huckleberries Online.

  • 2007 produces bad news on increase of all greenhouse gases

    Ralph Maughan

    There is bad news all around here, with the most alarming being the sudden rise in emissions of methane, a very potent greenhouse gas (25x that of carbon dioxide). If the arctic tundra has begun to seriously outgas, the outlook is very grim. Greenhouse Gases, Carbon Dioxide And Methane, Rise Sharply In 2007. Science Daily…

  • "Keep It Colorado" aims to raise and spend $800-million to conserve open space, wildlife

    Ralph Maughan

    This is a very ambitious program, far exceeding the size of all federal efforts. It is a plan for Colorado only. Perhaps 1/4 of the money would come from and oil and gas severance tax. The bulk would be raised privately in cash or land donations. Open space dreams to protect wild. Coalition’s goal would…

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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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