June 2008

  • Western guvs create Western Wildlife Habitat Council

    Ralph Maughan

    It certainly sounds good. Especially noted was the lack of effort by the BLM to do anything to protect wildlife habitat. So the states will have to take the initiative. Also attending the Western Governors Conference was Dirk Kempthorne who agreed with the creation of habitat council. Doesn’t Kempthorne have something to do with the…

  • Brokaw backs wildlife

    Ralph Maughan

    Brokaw backs wildlife. By Noah Brenner, Jackson Hole News and Guide. Former NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw urged the leaders of Western states and the Department of the Interior to protect wildlife corridors when considering energy and other development. If you read the MSM, TIm Russert may have been a journalistic saint in his position…

  • Howl boxes: Scientists experiment with tracking wolves by recording howls

    Ralph Maughan

    Scientists experiment with tracking wolves by recording howls. BY Joe Jaszewski. Idaho Statesman. We, the Wolf Recovery Foundation, are one of the groups providing financial support to test this innovation. A lot of folks will be happy to see the gradual disappearance of the radio collars outside of Yellowstone National Park. However, it is important…

  • Global warming prompts doubt about wildlife conservation in the West

    Brian Ertz

    Resistance to the scientific consensus of the existence of climate change is waning ~ politicized prescriptions for inaction and for the relaxation of public environmental laws takes its place. Last week, federal and state wildlife and public land managers gathered to talk about global warming and the effects it will have on western land and…

  • Public's call of the wild (on recent Mexican wolf survey)

    Ralph Maughan

    Public’s call of the wild. The Arizona Republic. Earlier on this web site. Southwesterners want wolves.

  • Wyoming's Game and Fish chief doesn't agree with the state vets on brucellosis

    Ralph Maughan

    Brucellosis eradication from Greater Yellowstone currently impossible says Terry Cleveland. By Chris Merrill. Casper Star Tribune. He doesn’t agree with conservation organizations either — closing elk feedlots won’t work.

  • Good news! Endangered sockeye salmon beat projections in Columbia

    Ralph Maughan

    Endangered sockeye salmon beat projections in Columbia River. AP. Idaho Statesman. After the collapse of the spring chinook salmon run into the Sacramento River this year, there was fear it would be general; but the sockeye salmon run bound for interior Oregon, Washington, and Idaho is 6 times that of last year. There are numerous…

  • The kind of development not needed with $4 going-on-$7/gallon of gas

    Ralph Maughan

    Black Bear Resort. Big things are in store for Bear Lake. A planned development near the Utah-Idaho border would offer skiing, sailing and more. By Mike Gorrell. The Salt Lake Tribune. This would create a huge new development in cold winter country 2 tanks of gas NE of Salt Lake City, Utah. Even if the…

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Jim Fowler

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