The Wildlife News

November 15, 2010

  • Wolf transition from Idaho Fish and Game is still not complete

    Ralph Maughan

    Feds still looking for a cooperating, non-Idaho agency- Personally, I’d rather see the federal government manage them in Idaho. They are doing it in Wyoming, and the wolf population there is growing slowly, livestock losses are stable or declining, and every elk unit its above the population “target” in Wyoming. In Idaho, before Idaho Fish…

  • Bat deaths from Wind Turbines

    Brian Ertz

    “Barotrauma” University of Calgary researchers provide answers to the mysterious deaths of bats and wind turbine facilities in southern Alberta, Canada. [vodpod id=Video.2305131&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] Barotrauma- Bat deaths from Wind Turbines Barotrauma – Wikipedia.org Barotrauma is physical damage to body tissues caused by a difference in pressure between an air space inside or beside the body and…

  • Million acre! wildlife refuge to be established in the Flint Hills of Kansas

    Ralph Maughan

    Private land refuge to be tried to conserve much of the remnants of the tall grass prairie- As everyone knows, very little prairie has been conserved or restored.  This is an effort said to be the model for the 21st century. This might be true in the sense that it seems like the kind of…

  • Bighorns transplanted to WY Seminoe Mountains doing well

    Ralph Maughan

    . . . and another transplant to this obscure mountain range planned- We’ve been following this for about a year now, and it’s good to hear good news on bighorn sheep because so much has been bad. Article on the transplants. By Jeff Gearino. Casper Star-Tribune in the Billings Gazette. Seminoe Mountains BLM photo

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