The Wildlife News

September 2009

  • Fire on Druid Peak is the largest in Yellowstone this summer

    Ralph Maughan

    The “Butte Fire” at 110 acres is largest in a slow forest fire season inside YNP- Lightning-caused fire in park grows to 110 acres. Billings Gazette. Update 9/8/2009. Fire on Druid Peak grows to 200 acres. AP Update 9/10/2009. Bad news. It is burning whitebark pine, the endangered and incredibly valuable food source for grizzly…

  • Plan moves forward for giant desert refuge in Nevada

    Ralph Maughan

    This is a new 15-year plan for the Desert National Wildlife Refuge and 3 others in southern Nevada- Massive desert wildlife refuge effort nears OK. By Stephanie Tavares. Las Vegas Sun. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s plan for the largest national wildlife refuge in the lower 48 would regenerate springs in the desert, streamside…

  • Are Hunters Stupid?–The Unintended Consequences of Wolf Hunting

    Ken Cole

    George Wuerthner has written an essay exploring the reaction of many people to the wolf hunt. Are Hunters Stupid?–The Unintended Consequences of Wolf Hunting . New West.

  • Idaho Wolf Hunt/"Custom & Culture" photo

    Brian Ertz

    This may be the beginning of a “Custom & Culture” series of photo-essays here on Ralph Maughan’s Wildlife News

  • Andrea Peacock: Bearly Making It

    Brian Ertz

    How Many Biologists Does It Take to Count a Dead Grizzly? Adrea Peacock adapts an essay from In the Presence of Grizzlies: The Ancient Bond Between Men and Bears by Doug and Andrea Peacock, The Lyons Press 2009 : Bearly Making It – via CounterPunch On December 17, 2004, Louisa Willcox of the Natural Resources…

  • Salazar's legacy: historical first state-sanctioned hunt of Northern Rockies gray wolves

    Ralph Maughan

    Salazar is part of the West’s landed nobility- Salazar’s legacy: historical first state-sanctioned hunt of Northern Rockies gray wolves. Seattle Environmental Policy Examiner. By Jean Williams “The state’s [that is, Idaho] object is to reduce the current wolf population by half.  This is a species that was removed prematurely from ESA protection, under authority by…

  • Government Leaves [Mexican] Wolf Pack in the Wild

    Brian Ertz

    Great news ! : Government Leaves [Mexican] Wolf Pack in the Wild KUNM – FM radio The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will not remove a wolf pack from the wild in southwestern New Mexico. Regional Director Benjamin Tuggle ruled last week that the Middle Fork Pack is highly valuable genetically to the Mexican gray…

  • Idaho Mountain Express’ news story on the wolf hunt

    Ralph Maughan

    The Mountain Express is central Idaho’s major weekly newspaper. It is published in the Wood River Valley, where a fair number of fairly rich people live amongst the larger population. This makes the area a target for “populist conservatives” who think that wealth means liberalism. At any rate, here is their local look at the…

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