The Wildlife News

February 16, 2009

  • The View from the Divide

    Brian Ertz

    Wyoming wilderness outfitters Tory and Meredith Taylor share a rare treat ~ The View from the Divide: Four Decades in Wyoming Wilderness – Tory & Meredith Taylor Wyofile.com

  • Clearwater Wolves Targeted for First ESA 10(j) Rule Killings

    Brian Ertz

    Friends of the Clearwater sent out this Action Alert: In January 2008, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) adopted the revised regulations of section 10(j) of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). This new rule substantially supports justifications for killing reintroduced, endangered gray wolves to nominally protect herds of elk, deer, and other wild ungulates…

  • Point, Counterpoint : Wolf reintroduction in Rocky Mountain National Park

    Brian Ertz

    Buckle up folks, a standoff ! Rob Edward of WildEarth Guardians opines on Rocky Mountain National Park’s (RMNP) overabundance of elk, hoping to jump start a conversation about wolf restoration in the wider ecosystem including Colorado – as opposed to guns.  Vaughn Baker, superintendent of RMNP says it won’t work.  Both featured in Sunday’s Denver Post:…

  • Barker: Industry rolls over mercury initiative

    Ken Cole

    Idaho Board of Environmental Quality Won’t Even Vote for Voluntary Rules. Barker: Industry rolls over mercury initiative . Rocky Barker – Idaho Statesman Mercury is an element that does not degrade to anything less harmful. It causes developmental problems in children and unborn fetuses and it accumulates in fish and other food sources making them unsafe…

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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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