The Wildlife News

January 2009

  • BLM and Forest Service Announce 2009 Grazing Fee

    Ken Cole

    The Subsidized Destruction of the American West Continues. $1.35 per AUM The Federal grazing fee for 2009 will be $1.35 per animal unit month (AUM) for public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management and $1.35 per head month (HM) for lands managed by the Forest Service. The grazing fee for 2009 is the…

  • Ted Williams: On second thought, Mr. Cheney

    Ralph Maughan

    Cheney to be guest of honor at American Museum of Fly Fishing- Outdoor writer not happy about honoring the fish killer, former VP. On second thought, Mr. Cheney. By Ted Williams. Writers on the Range, High Country News. – – – – – In fact, Cheney loves to fly cast. I’ve always thought a Wyoming…

  • Major oil terminal beneath Redoubt Volcano could result in huge oil spill

    Ralph Maughan

    Status of Drift River terminal is not known due to homeland security secrecy- Will a natural disaster trigger an oil spill disaster? We don’t know because of lingering secrecy from the Bush Administration. Story: “Drift River Oil Terminal sits in harm’s way of volcano. SECRECY: Citing homeland security, officials give out little information about the…

  • Bison advocates speak their mind in Helena

    Ralph Maughan

    “Having the Department of Livestock manage wildlife is a direct conflict of interest.” Here is the Bozeman newspaper’s take on the hearing to make bison “wildlife” in Montana. Note they have the bill number wrong. It is HB253, not 243. Montana FWP did not support the bill. Bison advocates speak their mind in Helena. By…

  • Environmentalists setting up anti-oilsands training camp in Calgary

    Ralph Maughan

    There is going to be a big fight over this rapidly growing development as its external costs become more widely known- Environmentalists setting up anti-oilsands training camp in Calgary.  By Kelly Cryderman, Canwest News Service For more information, here is the blog “Oil Sands Watch.” It has interesting information like “Oil Sands Development Could Claim…

  • Alaskans brace for Redoubt Volcano eruptions

    Ralph Maughan

    Major volcano close to Anchorage and Seward could have major wildlife and economic impacts- Alaskans brace for Redoubt Volcano eruption. By Dan Joling. AP

  • Idaho Fish and Game forecasting the largest salmon returns in years

    Ralph Maughan

    Great news! Will it pan out? Fish and Game forecasting the largest salmon returns in years. In other news, F&G will issue fewer moose tags and mountain goat permits in 2009 and 2010. By Roger Phillips. Idaho Statesman. More money and more political battling have been used to restore salmon (and steelhead) than any other…

  • 2008 grizzly bear mortality in NCDE

    Ralph Maughan

    Not a bad year for grizzlies in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem, unlike the Greater Yellowstone- Thirteen grizzlies were known to have died, eleven were human caused. Is it significant that the grizzly in the NCDE is still listed as a “threatened species” and the Greater Yellowstone population has been delisted? Graphical display of 2008…

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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.”

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