The Wildlife News

October 2008

  • Enviro Group Expands Palin Wolf-Hunting Policy Ad Buy

    Ralph Maughan

    Defenders raises a million dollars for more of the ad on Palin’s wolf hunting policy- From the Washington Post. By Juliet Eilperin. Enviro Group Expands Palin Wolf-Hunting Policy Ad Buy I notice it is slightly modified from the previous ad.

  • Groups sue for endangered species act status for wolverines

    Ralph Maughan

    ESA suit on wolverines- The Bush//Kemphthorne Interior Dept. of course rejected the petition to list the wolverine. The evidence is that the decision was made at high levels of Interior, not at the scientific level. Is anyone surprised? So sue the bastards again. Lawsuit seeks Species Act protection for wolverine. By Susan Gallagher. Associated Press.…

  • Amazing- a Wyoming Wolf Report appears!

    Ralph Maughan

    After months of no news from Wyoming (and complaints from this forum). A Wyoming wolf weekly suddenly appeared in my box, not from Mike Jimenez, wolf state wolf manager, but from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service — Ed Bangs! It looks to me like the Wyoming wolf population is limping along, with a higher…

  • Yellowstone Park is slowly shutting down for the winter

    Ralph Maughan

    The roads all close (except the North Entrance) Nov. 3 at 8 AM. Complete story. Parts of Yellowstone closing up for winter. By The Billings Gazette Staff

  • Jeff Merkley's US Senate candidacy in Oregon is raising hopes among salmon fishers

    Ralph Maughan

    Recent polls show Jeff Merkely tied or ahead of GOP incumbent Gordon Smith who has supported the Bush Plan (keep the dams) on the lower Snake River in Washington state. This is a regional (Pacific Northwest) issue, not a Washington state issue. Most fishery biologists think worthwhile salmon recovery in Idaho can’t happen with these…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

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

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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