The Wildlife News

June 2008

  • Big Oil told "use it or lose it" by House Natural Resources Committe chair

    Ralph Maughan

    The oil companies and the President and McCain talk about the need for more leasing of your public lands to big oil, but big oil is appearently sitting on the leases it has. Democrats Say Oil Companies Should Lose Leases They Don’t Use. By Susan Decker. Bloomberg. Related. Drilling ban is a myth, figures show.…

  • Out-of-state energy workers having a good time gunning down Wyoming wildlife

    Ralph Maughan

    ‘It’s pretty disgusting’. By Ben Neary. Casper Star Tribune. Here’s another thing the oil companies don’t mention in their drilling propaganda.

  • Daniel, WY cattlegrower has 13 more with brucellosis

    Ralph Maughan

    More cattle test positive for disease. By Cat Urbigkit. Casper Star Tribune. If any show up in a second herd, Wyoming will lose its brucellosis free status once again.

  • Feature on Idaho wolves tonight on Nightline

    Ralph Maughan

    Wolves Running Wild in the West. Resurgence of Once-Endangered Species Means Renewed Tension With Ranchers. By Chris Bury and Ely Brow. June 20, 2008. I’ve got to laugh at the first paragraph . . . “In Idaho’s rugged ranch country, a young calf killed by predators is every rancher’s worst nightmare.” The worst nightmare?  It…

  • Studies conflict on National Elk Refuge elk

    Ralph Maughan

    The important lawsuit to rid the National Elk Refuge of artificial winter feeding of elk is underway. This article in the Jackson Hole Star Tribune touches on the testimony of two experts, one on each side. If as the interest group, Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife claims, closing feedgrounds will cause elk to transmit brucellosis…

  • Dead Nevada rancher wins property rights award

    Ralph Maughan

    After a long battle the late Wayne Hage has won in the U.S. Court of Claims. Judge Loren A. Smith awarded $4.2 million to Hage’s estate. The defendant was the U.S. Forest Service. Rancher Hage was a “sagebrush rebel” with a ranch in a remote Nevada Valley. He eventually married Helen Chenoweth, a controversial far…

  • Norway's wolf population reduced by half to 8 -15 wolves

    Ralph Maughan

    “Wolf population cut in half. Illegal hunting and the apparent lack of any new breeding in the past year has cut Norway’s wolf population in half and seriously set back efforts against extinction.” Aftenposten.no Wolves have faced a great political struggle in Norway.

  • Bush returns to orginal premise of his presidency — help oil companies

    Ralph Maughan

    Brian Ertz posted a story several days ago about this topic. This is my take. In the last week we have had the President’s answer to high energy prices, drill for domestic oil, and develop oil shale deposits. The primary economic result of this will be to enrich the oil companies even more. They don’t…

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Edward Abbey

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Jim Fowler

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