The Wildlife News

June 18, 2008

  • Recent official Idaho and Montana wolf news

    Ralph Maughan

    Below are the most recent reports put out by Idaho Fish and Game and Montana, Fish, Wildlife and Parks. Idaho- IDAHO WOLF MANAGEMENT BI-WEEKLY PROGRESS REPORT To:                   Idaho Fish and Game Staff and Cooperators From:               IDFG Wolf Program Coordinator, Steve Nadeau Subject:           Status of Gray Wolf Management, Week of May 31 – June 14, 2008…

  • Photo of cattle on the Murphy burn

    Ralph Maughan

    The land needs to rest from cattle grazing for several seasons after a range fire, but here they are on the tablelands above Jackpot, Nevada, grazing part of the Murphy burn. The sagebrush area is unburned, the rest is obviously burned. Grazing a burn weakens the newly sprouted perennial grasses — the good grasses —…

  • Pygmy Rabbit (Brachylagus idahoensis)

    Brian Ertz

    Wikipedia : Pygmy Rabbit

  • Udder failure: The politics behind Montana’s brucellosis discovery

    Ralph Maughan

    Some would say it was the massive bad karma from killing more than 1,600 of the nation’s last wild buffalo by state and federal agents—the largest bison slaughter since the white man’s extinction of the millions-strong herds that once roamed the Great Plains. Or maybe it was the on-going and vicious political struggle between Gov.…

Subscribe to get new posts right in your Inbox

‎”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

Latest Posts

×