The Wildlife News

August 29, 2009

  • Man, 78, mauled by bear in Utah

    Ralph Maughan

    What is it about the small Utah bear population and Utahans? Man, 78, mauled by bear. “The man is recovering; the animal was shot and killed.”  By Brett Prettyman. The Salt Lake Tribune. Earlier Utah bear stories posted here: Aug. 5, 2009. Utahans killing bears at record rates June 18, 2007. Utah black bear rips…

  • Anti-wolf anger boils over into bad joke about "Obama Tags"

    Brian Ertz

    Rex Rammell jokes he’d buy an “Obama Tag” Wolves in the state have become an avatar, a pariah.  It often seems that the hatred has little to do with facts, science, or the wolves themselves and more to do with a deep-seated hatred for the federal government that will take any opportunity to emerge.  Rammell’s canned-elk,…

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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

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