The Wildlife News

December 2008

  • Wyoming wolf-management window dressing

    Brian Ertz

    Scurrying to make the deadline of the hasty second delisting of wolves,  Wyoming changes the window dressings on its state wolf management plan: Wyoming wrapping up work on new wolf plan – Billings Gazette Changes include shortening some reporting requirements for those who kill wolves and further defining “damage to private property” and “chronic wolf…

  • Utah downgrades its oil-shale estimates

    Brian Ertz

    There’s less oil-shale in Utah than they thought – still a lot, but that doesn’t mean much, it’s not a viable energy option taking more energy to bring to market than it contributes to the market. Utah downgrades its oil-shale estimates – Salt Lake Tribute

  • Black-tailed Prairie Dog

    Brian Ertz

  • Environmentalists Wary of Obama’s Interior Pick

    Ralph Maughan

    Reaction to Salazar pick in NYT- Environmentalists Wary of Obama’s Interior Pick . John M. Broder. Oh god! Salazar showed up wearing a cowboy hat. Makes you sick. Well everyone should hold their breath and count until the “lesser” nominations.

  • Obama Names Salazar As Secretary of Interior

    Ralph Maughan

    Salazar decribed as a “moderate” and a “broker”- From WaPo. Obama Names Salazar As Secretary of Interior. By Juliet Eilperin, Phil Rucker and Dan Morgan. That is so offensive to hear him described as “a fifth-generation Coloradan whose family settled in the West before the United States’ founding and has ranched and farmed on the…

  • Who said the government won't do something to help the bison?

    Ralph Maughan

    Yellowstone, bison to be featured on postage stamp- AP story on the new postage stamp series.

  • Iowa’s Vilsack Likely Pick For Secretary of Agriculture

    Ralph Maughan

    WaPO says environmentalists and “food groups” reacted positively- Obama to name Vilsack for Agriculture. By Philip Rucker and Dan Morgan. Washington Post Staff Writers. Vilsack was a popular governor of Iowa. He has been a major politician. His expertise in agriculture seems to come more from being a governor than from intimate knowledge of policy.…

  • Grijalva Declines Ways and Means Appointment

    Brian Ertz

    It’s official – Grijalva has declined his appointment to the powerful Ways and Means Committee to keep his influential position advocating for public lands and wildlife.  Press Release 12/16: the need to continue my work on the Committee on Natural Resources and, more specifically, my Subcommittee Chairmanship is more important at this time. There are…

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