Day: July 6, 2008
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Focus on elk as disease [brucellosis] persists near Yellowstone
What an outrage! The officials who speak for this special interest group need to be put in their place. This should be a national campaign issue. Focus on elk as brucellosis persists near Yellowstone. By Matthew Brown, Associated Press Writer. They will have to kill every elk in the Greater Yellowstone, and, of course, every…
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Kathie Lynch: Druid Pups and interesting Hayden/Canyon news
Kathie Lynch is spending the summer in Yellowstone. This is her first report of the summer. The Druid pups have finally been seen, and there are at least nine. Ralph Maughan – – – – – – – YNP WOLF Notes, June 16-July 5, 2008 By © Kathie Lynch Yellowstone’s late spring rain and snow…
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Bad news for outdoors lovers: West Nile mutates in a bad way
The West Nile virus menace has now spread across most of North America, but it abates with frost and hot and dry weather that kills the virus-spreading mosquitoes. Now it has mutated to be able to better withstand hot weather. All diseases have their politics, as we have seen with brucellosis, AIDS, avian flu, MRSA,…
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Book Review: Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators
Bill McKibben reviews “Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators” by William Stolzenburg for the Boston Globe.
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[Mexican] Wolf recovery can succeed
Benjamin Tuggle, Southwest regional director of U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) has published an Op-Ed in the Arizona Republic: Wolf recovery can succeed The Op-Ed is released, likely to smooth things over, amidst recent controversy in response to inaction on the part of FWS including at least 2 lawsuits and a recent poll demonstrating…