September 2010
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Off With His Hat Finally some sanity ~ it’ll be interesting to see whether Obama has the integrity to follow through (not holding my breath): Obama: Interior reforms too slow ~ By Dan Berman, Politico White House insiders say Salazar has fallen out of favor and speculate that he will be gone after November’s midterms. Obama didn’t…
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Proposed Montana wolf hunt, now on hold, would have significantly reduced state’s wolf population- Scientists: Wolf Hunts More Deadly Than Previously Thought. By Virginia Morell. Science Insider. Link is now fixed! Here is the actual scientific paper. Meta-Analysis of Relationships between Human Offtake, Total Mortality and Population Dynamics of Gray Wolves (Canis lupus). By Scott…
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Using satellites to produce energy could eliminate the need for other power sources but how do you get the energy back to earth? Beam it. This idea has been around for a while but it could have profound impacts that aren’t well understood. I find these kinds of stories fascinating and I think they relate…
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A new study in the Journal of Wildlife Diseases confirms, unequivocally, that the domestic sheep disease Mannheimia haemolytica kills bighorn sheep after the two species co-mingle. This paper has been rumored for the last several months and was cited in the recent Payette National Forest decision to close 60% of sheep grazing allotments on the…
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The Yellowstone Success Story and Those Who Want to Kill It Chip Ward publishes an exceptional piece on the wolf controversy, bringing a compelling focus back to the real issues ~ and values ~ wolf advocates are fighting for : The Big Bad Wolf Makes Good – Published on Wednesday, September 29, 2010 by TomDispatch.com Sadly,…
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Rancher senators move to amend Endangered Species Act- Although most of the grass roots activity against wolves has come from elk and deer hunters, it has always been the ranchers at the core of wolf hatred. The reason is that the large ranchers have always believed it is their right to govern the rest of…
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I posted this at the end of August. It’s time to get your comments in. Don’t color outside the lines The Idaho Department of Fish and Game has released its Draft Bighorn Sheep Management Plan which essentially draws lines around existing bighorn sheep populations and prevents recovery to historical habitat. This is a big problem…
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Twenty-one more dead bighorn- Pneumonia persists in Anaconda bighorns. Montana Standard. Seems to me like Western Watersheds Project is about the only private organization doing anything to stop the spread of this disease that is taking such an awful toll.