The Wildlife News

September 9, 2008

  • Rocky Barker: McCain grizzly earmark story raises questions on his focus

    Ralph Maughan

    Senator McCain doesn’t like “earmarked” congressional spending for special local projects. There is one story he has told for a long time about this kind of “waste.” It’s that of the Montana grizzly bear DNA study. It always gets a great laugh, generates some outrage, and he convinces many of his point of view. Anyone…

  • Back to the drawing board on Hebgen Lake repair (Must read)

    Ralph Maughan

    I notice a lot of people have been reading this story on the gate failures at Hebgen Dam, the news of which was first brought to us on Sept. 1 by “Idahosal.” (Salle) They thought they had the way to fix the broken headgates at the dam, but it failed. Oh Oh1 PPL back to…

  • A complete table of Yellowstone wolves 1995-2008

    Ralph Maughan

    The other day Ken Cole sent me a remarkable piece of work of his. He had taken the data I have put up since 1995 and added some additional data and made a file showing every wolf that was radio-collared in the Yellowstone Park from 1995-2008. It was a very large Excel file, which I…

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Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

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