The Wildlife News

December 2009

  • The rogue greenhouse gas emission country

    Ralph Maughan

    China? Russia? India? The United States? No, it’s Canada- Canada’s image lies in tatters. It is now to climate what Japan is to whaling. The tar barons have held the nation to ransom. This thuggish petro-state is today the greatest obstacle to a deal in Copenhagen.  George Monbiot. U.K. Guardian. We have posted several articles…

  • New York Times doesn't like Idaho's extension of the wolf hunt

    Ralph Maughan

    Media help arrives from a big gun- A lot of people said Idaho Fish and Game Commission really screwed up when they extended the wolf hunt. Rumor is that Ed Bangs got bald tearing his hair out after learning about Idaho’s gift to anti-delisting groups. “. .. when protections were lifted earlier this year in…

  • Interior Chief Slams Oil and Gas Groups' 'Election-Year Politics'

    Ralph Maughan

    Salazar condemns oil industry lies about leasing on public lands- Well good for the Secretary of Interior! I don’t watch much television, but when I do, I’m amazed at the number of ads energy companies are producing. I’d bet 90% of the population believes that “BP” stands for beyond petroleum, not the company’s actual name…

  • Idaho's Silver Creek is pristine after all — mercury scare was based on faulty data

    Ralph Maughan

    One of Idaho’s most famous fishing streams has always been safe- This is certainly good news. I know the first time I ever saw Silver Creek I had been to a meeting with the Idaho Department of Transportation in Boise. The stream looked so amazing, I got out my rod and waded in wearing my…

  • Livestock disease found in eastern Idaho cow

    Ken Cole

    The infected animal had been vaccinated. This has been a perennial issue in areas surrounding the elk feedlots in Wyoming. It now seems that brucellosis has once again infected cattle in Idaho but it is too early to say where the disease originated. If brucellosis is found in another cattle herd in Idaho within a…

  • The need to manage national forests as carbon sinks

    Ralph Maughan

    Forest fire prevention? Thinning? Maximize size of individual tress? Leave it alone? It’s hard to say The article below is related to the one posted about “Sen. Udall sponsors bill to attack pine beetles.” It’s good to finally see some attention to the role of forests as carbon sinks, but it is not clear how…

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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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