The Wildlife News

December 2010

  • A different kind of wolf book: Niemeyer's "Wolfer" has been published

    Ralph Maughan

    A real page-turner is available now just before the holidays- A lot of folks have waited for the publication of Carter Niemeyer’s autobiograpy, Wolfer. It is now available from a couple sources, but Amazon.com will get it to you before Christmas. I’ve checked that out. It is also available at Amazon as a download for…

  • Montana wilderness, jobs bill added to Senate appropriations bill

    Ralph Maughan

    Senator Tester’s massive forest bill has been added to Senate omnibus appropriations bill- Every year the U.S. Congress’ procedure becomes more and more unglued. The reason for this is mostly partisan gridlock. So few freestanding bills (called regular order) are allowed by the opposition to pass or fail on a straight vote that extraordinary measures…

  • Oceans: Jellyfish replace fish in overfished waters

    Ralph Maughan

    Booming Jellyfish in Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean- Overfishing does not create waters with no fish.  The vaccum is replaced by billions of jellyfish. Jellyfish story in Science Daily

  • Idaho governor says wolf delisting push stalled last Monday on population goal, other details

    Ken Cole

    It shows that Otter never intended to follow IDFG’s management plan. Otter once again shows us that the state never intended to manage wolves with an eye toward science. He always intended to manage for the minimum number identified in the legislative plan and that the IDFG plan was meaningless just as we have always…

  • Salazar: Sonoran desert tortoise is "Warranted, but precluded" from federal protection

    Brian Ertz

    Tortoise Takes Place in Line For Federal Listing The Sonoran desert tortoise is the next in a long line of imperiled species that the Obama administration’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services has determined is “Warranted, but precluded” from the comprehensive federal protections of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Sonoran desert tortoise now an endangered species…

  • Toby Bridges again busy talking about wolf poisoning, lord knows what other animals

    Ralph Maughan

    Bridges tells us artificial sweetener will kill all canines, including dogs– Toby Bridges’ name has been out of the news a while after his ISP apparently revoked his old web site.  He has a new ISP now and web site, but he is also sending out his opinion to local newspapers. Read this in the…

  • Whitebark Pine Trees Face Long Odds for Survival

    Ralph Maughan

    But several million dollars a year for starting seedlings in nurseries might restore it- This is perhaps the first article I have read that offers a glimmer of hope for this rapidly disappearing tree, so vital to grizzly bears and Clark’s nutcrackers. Whitebark Pine Trees Face Long Odds for Survival. By Laura Petersen, E&E reporter…

  • Eagle Concerns Stymie Wind Farms

    Brian Ertz

    Wind Farms On Public Land Stymied By Eagle Concerns, Radar Interference The article notes a growing recognition of conflicts wind development on public lands are running into, slowing wind development on public lands across the West. Eagle Concerns Stymie Wind Farms – AP The only project approved is the Spring Valley wind farm in Nevada…

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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

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Raveena Tandon

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