The Wildlife News

August 2008

  • Building in disaster-prone areas should cost more

    Ralph Maughan

    Pay to play: Building in disaster-prone areas should cost more. Salt Lake Tribune Editorial. The editorial above is about Utah, but it uses California as the bad example (Utah is just as bad except that the population is smaller). California’s current budget disaster is compounded by the costs of fighting the many fires — $13-million…

  • Fired Idaho Fish and Game Director should have his say

    Ralph Maughan

    In July David Parrish who was the Director of Idaho Fish and Game for the Magic Valley region lost his job after he commented on the wildlife impacts of the proposed by wind farm on public and private land near Brown’s Bench. We covered the story, but the Idaho media didn’t seem to find this…

  • The last days of Alaska's kleptocracy

    Ralph Maughan

    Alaska is a state governed by a politically corrupt elite, but the FBI is closing in.  It is a systemic problem and not surprisingly this extends to the state’s management of wildlife. Today the New Republic has an article on what could be the end of the era. I think this article raises the question…

  • Glacier National Park gears up to celebrate its 100th Anniversary

    Ralph Maughan

    8-19. Change marks Glacier’s approach to centennial. Park positioning itself to deal with new realities, emerging as a leader. By Michael Jamison. Missoulian. 8-20. Glacier grabs hold of uncertain future. By Michael Jamison. Missoulian. 8-21. Glacier Park: The next century – Threats from all sides. By Michael Jamison. Missoulian. The 100th year celebration of the…

  • More details of ID cobalt mine 'deal'

    Brian Ertz

    Earlier we had a conversation about the Idaho Conservation League’s decision to cut a deal green-lighting a cobalt mine near Salmon, Idaho.  Details of that deal were promised today (Monday) : Formation Capital and Idaho Conservation League Reach Agreement on Conservation Program – marketwire Mine, environmentalists hail ID cobalt mine deal – Todd Dvorak –…

  • Germany hears the call of the wild as wolves return after 200 years

    Ralph Maughan

    Good news from Germany! Germany hears the call of the wild as wolves return after 200 years. By David Wroe. News.scotsman.com.

  • Trapping of wolverines continues in Montana

    Ralph Maughan

    The trapping season on this rare, probably endangered animal, will continue this winter in Montana, the only state with a season on wolverine. There are only about 500 wolverine in the lower 48 states. The Bush/Kempthorne Interior Department rejected endangered species status based on their highly   questionable legal notion that a species can’t be…

  • As suspected the "bigfoot remains" are a fake

    Ralph Maughan

    “Bigfoot” fails DNA test. Science News Daily. Bits of DNA that were provided to researchers turned out to be a little bit of human DNA and 96% opossum. This story about the bigfoot remains, supposedly discovered in Georgia, was posted to our long-running thread, “Bear or Bigfoot.“

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Edward Abbey

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