The Wildlife News

February 22, 2011

  • Three Men vs. Fifteen Hungry Lions. [VIDEO]

    Ken Cole

    Over the years we have heard so many times from manly-men hunters who go out into the back country with their high powered rifles, handguns, and what have you, to then come back home with tales of being scared by wolves. A recent story comes to mind but there are many others as well. Maybe…

  • Idaho Fish and Game feeding wildife in SE Idaho

    Ralph Maughan

    Elk, deer, and pronghorn being fed since January 1- Idaho Fish and Game doesn’t like to feed, but deep snow and frozen snow after a melt has prompted off and on feeding.  Some of it is to keep the wild animals away from farms. Idaho Fish and Game news release.

  • Supreme Court rebuffs ranchers on Mexican Spotted Owl

    Ralph Maughan

    A welcome surprise- High court rejects appeal in spotted owl dispute. “The Supreme Court has decided to let stand a Bush administration designation of 8.6 million acres in four Western states as critical habitat for an endangered owl.” Associated Press.

  • Western Fish and Game (Wildlife) Comissions on the chopping block

    Ralph Maughan

    High Country News reports on moves to abolish or modify the traditional Fish and Game Commission- Western wildlife commissions on the chopping block. By Jodi Peterson.  High Country News This form of wildlife governance has come up for discussion many times on this blog.

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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

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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