A Project of Sage Steppe Wild
New director: All of us should visits parks. Jarvis ranks protection, management of resources among his core values. By Cory Hatch, Jackson Hole Daily.
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Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University. He was a Western Watersheds Project Board Member off and on for many years, and was also its President for several years. For a long time he produced Ralph Maughan’s Wolf Report. He was a founder of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He and Jackie Johnson Maughan wrote three editions of “Hiking Idaho.” He also wrote “Beyond the Tetons” and “Backpacking Wyoming’s Teton and Washakie Wilderness.” He created and is the administrator of The Wildlife News.
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On this story, I want to share with you all what I posted to my group, Buffalo Allies of Bozeman:
“Interesting tidbit in today’s news on bison. The Jackson Hole News and Guide is reporting an interview with new National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis. He says a new brucellosis management plan for bison and elk is in the works, but details are not ready to be released.
“However, Jarvis in a recent interview in Grist Magazine suggests a belief that the bison management process (the Interagency Bison Management Plan – IBMP) can serve as a model for the National Park Service in ecosystem management, where NPS must work with outside agencies and private landowners to deal with things like, say, migratory wildlife (like bison). If Jarvis actually believes this, that’s very unfortunate because the IBMP has been a disaster for bison and has been a farce in actually involving all the stakeholders. Where is there an actual seat for the public, where is there a seat for the tribes, where is there actual advocacy for wild buffalo? The IBMP has been a buffalo death machine that has served only one interest, that of the livestock industry. I don’t think we can hold our breath that the new NPS brucellosis plan will be a good one. You might want to let Jarvis know that we don’t believe that the IBMP should serve as a model for anything except ineptitude and cruelty.
“See http://www.jhnewsandguide.com/article.php?art_id=5173 for today’s article, and http://www.grist.org/article/2009-10-09-new-national-parks-chief-jon-jarvis/ for the other; other issues besides bison are discussed.”
“Interesting tidbit in today’s news on bison. The Jackson Hole News and Guide is reporting an interview with new National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis. He says a new brucellosis management plan for bison and elk is in the works, but details are not ready to be released.
“However, Jarvis in a recent interview in Grist Magazine suggests a belief that the bison management process (the Interagency Bison Management Plan – IBMP) can serve as a model for the National Park Service in ecosystem management, where NPS must work with outside agencies and private landowners to deal with things like, say, migratory wildlife (like bison). If Jarvis actually believes this, that’s very unfortunate because the IBMP has been a disaster for bison and has been a farce in actually involving all the stakeholders. Where is there an actual seat for the public, where is there a seat for the tribes, where is there actual advocacy for wild buffalo? The IBMP has been a buffalo death machine that has served only one interest, that of the livestock industry. I don’t think we can hold our breath that the new NPS brucellosis plan will be a good one. You might want to let Jarvis know that we don’t believe that the IBMP should serve as a model for anything except ineptitude and cruelty.
“See http://www.jhnewsandguide.com/article.php?art_id=5173 for today’s article, and http://www.grist.org/article/2009-10-09-new-national-parks-chief-jon-jarvis/ for the other; other issues besides bison are discussed.”
http://www.flatheadbeacon.com/articles/article/long_to-do_list_for_new_u.s._parks_chief/13848/#at