The Wildlife News

December 2008

  • Livestock as four legged picnic baskets

    Brian Ertz

    George Wuerthner wrote a letter to the editor making a great point about the double-standard regarding livestock/wolf conflicts – especially on public lands : In our national parks it’s illegal to leave out picnic baskets because it will lead to human-bear conflicts. To save bears, humans are fined if they fail to put away food.…

  • The right way to do solar power

    Ralph Maughan

    Don’t take up huge swaths of land- I found this video that shows solar power underway with a deemphasis on remote solar collection in land-destroying mega-farm and vast transmission lines to electricity load centers. Orchards of the sun on space.com.  Let’s hope Obama will go this route. Not only is it better for our environment,…

  • This blog rated 2nd most influential in Idaho last week

    Ralph Maughan

    We are usually in the top ten, but this is the highest so far- Click on “highest influence” in the left hand column at BlogNetNews Idaho

  • Endangered Species Act 35th anniversary and wolves

    Ralph Maughan

    Today is the 35th anniversary of the ESA. Michael J. Robinson wrote the essay below for this forum- Thirty five years ago today, on December 28, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon signed into law the Endangered Species Act, intended not just to stave off extinction, but more broadly to conserve the ecosystems on which endangered…

  • Avalanche danger high

    Ralph Maughan

    Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Utah and other Western Idaho have ideal conditions for getting killed in the mountains- Avalanche danger rated ‘high’ in central Idaho. Backcountry travelers advised to stay home until danger subsides. By Jason Kaufman. Idaho Mountain Express. Northern Utah: Beacon saves avalanche victim at Big Cottonwood ridgeline. By Lindsay Whitehurst. The Salt Lake…

  • Sylvan Pass opens and closes

    Ralph Maughan

    Nature fails to cooperate with Dick Cheney- The Park Service wanted to halt the extremely expensive and dangerous practice of keeping Sylvan Pass just west of the East Entrance of Yellowstone open for snowmobiles. As usual a handful of Cody businesses screamed that the economy would disintegrate if a couple dozen snowmobiles didn’t pass through…

  • Video on Utah big game transplants

    Ralph Maughan

    I think moose have been the biggest success story in Utah- This video is a 5-minute overview of big game transplants in Utah from the Salt Lake Tribune.

  • MT Stockgrowers ask Court to stop new more generous bison arrangement

    Ralph Maughan

    The Stockgrowers want to stop decision to let bison wanderly freely outside Park near Horse Butte- In the comments today people are already discussing this lawsuit. So here is the AP article by Matthew Brown. Court asked to stop Yellowstone bison arrangement. Billings Gazette. By Matthew Brown. AP

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