The Wildlife News

August 2008

  • Minnesota's wolf population has stopped growing in size and range

    Ralph Maughan

    Gray wolf range, population similar in Minn. Associated Press. It has pretty much peaked out in Wisconsin too. This casts a lot of doubt on the statements in recent years by Dr. Dave Mech who has been alarmed for quite a while at the growth rate of wolves in Minnesota, and took the side of…

  • Time, Finally, for Real Fuel Economy

    Ralph Maughan

    This editorial is in today’s New York Times. Time, Finally, for Real Fuel Economy. The truck I use the most gets 25 mpg, pretty good, but it replaced one that got 30 mpg (I rolled that one). When I looked for a new truck, a 30 mpg was no longer made.

  • Good news: Maybe a fine sockeye salmon year for Idaho

    Ralph Maughan

    A record summer for returning sockeye. By Scott Learn. Newhouse News Service “Sockeye salmon, an oceangoing species that starts and ends its life hundreds of river miles inland, are swimming up the Columbia River this summer in numbers unseen in five decades.” First sockeye comes home to Idaho. By Rocky Barker – Idaho Statesman

  • Web Tools for Forest Fires

    Ralph Maughan

    There are a number of web sites that help people heading for the outdoors. The one I use the most it the smoke plume web site (yes, it’s getting pretty bad). SSD Fire Detection Program. Inciweb. National Fire News. Yellowstone Park Wildland Fires U.S. air quality (suggestion by Mike Post) GeoMAC Wildfire Information (suggestion by…

  • Idaho Fish and Game Talking Points for Federal Court Decision on Wolves

    Ralph Maughan

    This was leaked to me. It is what any Idaho Fish and Game employee is supposed to tell the public or the media if the ask about Judge Molloy’s decision. RM – – – – – Talking Points for Federal Court Decision on Wolves Federal District Judge Molloy issued a preliminary injunction against wolf delisting…

  • Kempthorne unveils species banking system

    Brian Ertz

    Secretary of the Interior Kempthorne unveiled the Fish and Wildlife Service’s new “credit” and “banking” system for threatened and endangered species protections. The idea is that federal agencies will be allowed to take actions that inflict damage to protected species populations on federal land if they have accrued enough “credits” from conservation programs on private…

  • Big Oil makes the most money ever

    Ralph Maughan

    Big Oil’s biggest quarter ever: $51.5B in all. By John Porretto. AP Business Writer. So far Speaker Pelsosi has kept nervous Democrats in line on big oil’s plan’s to use the high price of gasoline to gain leases in fragile off and on-shore public lands. The counterattack should be easy. The headline above shows the…

  • Coyote killing jumps in Wyoming: Infusion of WY state funding leads to record killing by federal agents

    Ralph Maughan

    Coyote killing jumps in Wyoming: Infusion of WY state funding leads to record killing by federal agents. By Chris Merrill. Casper Star Tribune.

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Edward Abbey

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Jim Fowler

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