The Wildlife News

June 2010

  • Wyoming gubernatorial candidates praise the energy industry

    Ralph Maughan

    Role of past Wyoming politicians in corrupting MMS doesn’t phase them- And it’s bow down before Wyoming’s true rulers. Praise in the Casper Star Tribune. By Dustin Bleizeffer.  They would never hurt Wyoming like they did the Gulf of Mexico. – – – – – – Related Oil companies have spent little on oil spill…

  • Utah anglers may have to buy access to streams

    Ralph Maughan

    Utah’s new anti-access law effect’s on fishing could be overcome by access purchase- We discussed this earlier in brief as part of the comments on the Salt Lake City, Chevron oil pipe spill into Red Butte Creek and the Jordan River. Utah anglers may have to buy access to streams. By Brandon Loomis. The Salt…

  • Why Are Asian Carp So Fearsome?

    Ralph Maughan

    Why doesn’t Wildlife Services get a job killing these rather than our native wildlife? Instead we have the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers doing nothing to stop their spread to the Great Lakes. Why Are Asian Carp So Fearsome? By Karen Rowan. LiveScience.com as reported in Yahoo News.

  • Northern Idaho investigation begun on poisoning of domestic dogs

    Ralph Maughan

    Carbaryl-laced sausages believed to target carnivorous wildlife- As is the usual case, dogs ended up dead in an attempt to probably poison wolves. Idaho Fish and Games news release. Investigation begun on poisoning of domestic dogs

  • Petition to Protect Mexican Wolves from Traps on Public Lands

    Brian Ertz

    Groups Request End to Trapping & Snaring in Mexican Wolf Habitat in NM 14 Mexican Wolves have Been Trapped by Private Trappers – Press Release – WildEarth Guardians Santa Fe, NM. Today, WildEarth Guardians, the Sierra Club, and Southwest Environmental Center petitioned federal agencies and requested an emergency halt to all trapping and snaring on…

  • Wyoming wolf news June 18

    Ralph Maughan

    This USFWS news also gives info from Oregon where the Imnaha Pack’s alpha male is missing- wyomingnews-June18-2010 pdf file.

  • Climate change may favor nonmigratory elk

    Ralph Maughan

    Migration is dwindling all over the Earth; Wyoming elk are one example- Climate change may favor couch-potato elk. Heading for the hills every spring appears worse than staying put. By Susan Milius. Science News. I have to wonder what the pollution of the Gulf of Mexico will do to the continent spanning bird migrations?

  • Idaho sockeye numbers cause for hope

    Ken Cole

    Another good year for Idaho’s sockeye salmon? 134,000 164,000 sockeye have crossed Bonneville Dam which is more than 3 times the 10-year average. Most of those are heading to lakes in Washington State but a few are returning to lakes in Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains. During the last two years Idaho saw exceptionally high returns of…

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