The Wildlife News

July 2009

  • Moscow, Idaho man reports fighting with mountain lion near Elk River, Idaho

    Ralph Maughan

    Firewood gatherer said to be attacked. Stabbed cougar ran off- Idaho Mountain Lion attack. AP

  • Idaho Sockeye Returning at Record Numbers

    Ken Cole

    As of 7/13/09 914 sockeye salmon have crossed Lower Granite Dam. Last year was a record for modern times when 909 Sockeye Salmon passed over Lower Granite Dam and 450 plus 650 returned to the Sawtooth Valley. This year there have been 914 so far and the run is not over. There was a year…

  • Jon Jarvis: A new voice for the national parks

    Ralph Maughan

    New York Times very positive on the new Director of the National Park Service- When President Obama nominated Jon Jarvis to head the Park Service, I was not familiar with him. However, the New York Times thinks Jarvis is the “best news [they] have heard in the past nine years about the national parks” New…

  • Hungry elk have landowners critical of N.M. management

    Ralph Maughan

    People love to argue about “depredations” by predators. What what “depredations” by plant eaters? Hungry elk have landowners critical of N.M. management. New Mexico weighs how to limit damage or offer compensation. By Susan Montoya Bryan. The Associated Press in the Denver Post

  • Obama Administration might restrict use of antibiotics in healthy livestock

    Ralph Maughan

    Finally, let’s hope- “The Union of Concerned Scientists has estimated that as much as 70 percent of antibiotics used in the United States is given to healthy chickens, pigs and cattle to encourage their growth or to prevent illnesses.” The medical community has been urging this for decades. Administration Seeks to Restrict Antibiotics in Livestock.…

  • Island Park Grizzly that Attacked Hound Hunter Found Alive and Well with Her 3 Cubs.

    Ken Cole

    Idaho Fish and Game Press Release Date: July 13, 2009 Contact: Ed Mitchell (208) 334-3700 Bear Who Bit Hunter Located DNA is a powerful tool. Preliminary results of saliva from one of the bite marks where a female grizzly bear bit a hunter on June 28 returned a match to a radio-collared grizzly with three…

  • Enviros back Sotomayor for Supreme Court

    Ralph Maughan

    Likely new Justice expected to help stem anti-environmental trend by the Court’s activist conservative justices- The last term of the Supreme Court was the most anti-environmental in memory, ruling against conservation groups in all cases. New Chief Justice Roberts joined with Justice Scalia and other conservative justices to ignore settled law, and precedent,* so to…

  • Wild horses thought to create beautiful fields of wildflowers in Pryor Mountains

    Ralph Maughan

    Unfortunately, the flowers may be the result of overgrazing by the horses- This article and its premise may spark a lot of controversy. Wild horse range pressured by overgrazing. By Brett French. Billings Gazette. I should add that I have never been to the Pryor Mountains of Montana, which are east of Cody and near…

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