The Wildlife News

February 2010

  • Yellowstone Wolf Numbers Drop for Second Year

    Ralph Maughan

    Park now has only 55% as many wolves as at the peak population- I predicted this, and the same thing was happening to the wolf population of Idaho and Montana. Without any intervention they would have peaked and dropped. With the big campaign against them in Idaho and Montana, we will never know.  At any…

  • British Columbia industrial development ban ends 36-year dispute over Flathead

    Ralph Maughan

    Controversy began 1n 1974- Well what a cause for celebration this is!  I can remember I was just starting to explore the wild country as a young man back in 1974 when Sage Creek Coal proposed a big coal mine on Cabin Creek, a tributary to the North Fork of the Flathead.  In 2008 I…

  • Just one bison was killed in Montana's bison hunt

    Ralph Maughan

    State hunt relies solely on bison migration from Yellowstone Park. Few migrated- Single bison shot in state’s winter hunt. By  Matthew Brown. Associated Press | Now, however, Montana’s Department of Livetock is completely out of control and wants to kill any bison that leave the Park even in cattle free areas, in violation of the…

  • ID Fish and Game shows they are turning Idaho's wolf plan into one like Wyoming's

    Ralph Maughan

    Leaked memo shows massive effort coming to kill off Idaho wolves- The memo below from Cal Groen, Director of the Idaho Fish and Game Department confirms my call about six months ago that the Department was working with, or told to work with livestock interests to devise a method for a massive wolf reduction program.…

  • Have you run across any interesting news, February 11 to 19, 2010

    Ralph Maughan

    If so, post the URL, name of the story and the newspaper, magazine, etc. it comes from and a few of your thoughts- Note that this replaces the first edition. That edition can be found slowly moving down into the “bowels” of the blog.

  • Researchers turn up the noise to battle bark beetles

    Ralph Maughan

    Is artificial bark beetle noise a silver bullet? Except at great expense and on a small scale, insecticides, logging or pheromone traps haven’t touched this beetle epidemic that extends from the Yukon to New Mexico.  Here is some thinking outside the box that might work. Of course, it too might only work over small areas.…

  • Opinion: Tester logging bill proposes a calamitous precedent

    Ralph Maughan

    Key player in passage of the ’64 Wilderness Act blast Tester’s Wilderness/logging bill- This is an opinion in the Billings Gazette by Stewart Brandborg who was executive director of the Wilderness Society when the Wilderness Act became law. – – – – – My take on Tester’s bill is that is very much the stuff…

  • Lawsuit Settled over grazing in Sonoran Desert National Monument

    Ralph Maughan

    Joint news release by the BLM and Western Watersheds Project- This is a victory for WWPs Arizona Office in Tucson. NEWS RESEASE (PHOENIX, AZ)—The U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and Western Watersheds Projects announced today settlement of a federal lawsuit involving the Sonoran Desert National Monument southwest of Phoenix, Arizona.…

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