April 2011

  • Upper Colorado River Basin snowfall gives Lake Mead some replenishment

    Ralph Maughan

    Wet winter and spring will raise the reservoir for the first time in a decade- Recently we posted an article how Lake Mead would soon fall to a level that it would no longer be able to generate power. I recently visited (see photo). The drawdown was amazing, but the extreme wet winter and spring…

  • Bozeman Earth Day speaker: Beef is bad for the planet

    Ralph Maughan

    4th generation Montana rancher turned against cattle- Bozeman Earth Day speaker: Beef is bad for the planet. By Gail Schontzler. Bozeman Chronicle Staff Writer

  • Montana probes killing of Yellowstone buffalo

    Ralph Maughan

    Park bison killed by small arms fire- It is redundant to call this sad and dangerous. Small arms are used not primarily to cause suffering, but to avoid a loud report from the gun attracting attention. Rural neighbors who are out to settle scores kill each others livestock this way. Montana probes killing of Yellowstone…

  • A Hole in the Endangered Species Act. NYT editorial

    Ralph Maughan

    NYT condemns Salazar and his acquiescence to delisting the wolf by legislative rider- A Hole in the Endangered Species Act. New York Times.

  • Montana judge halts the building of megaload turnouts in Western Montana

    Ralph Maughan

    Another roadblock to the use of Idaho Highway 12 and Montana highways as corridors for moving Alberta bound tar sand equipment- This is good news, although likely temporary. The turnouts constructed on the Montana side of Lolo Pass appear to be larger than the oil giant said and closer to Lolo Creek which already suffers…

  • BLM halts some construction at Ivanpah Power Plant

    Brian Ertz

    Threshold Number of ESA Protected Desert Tortoise Killed In Construction of Solar Thermal Plant We just received notice that the BLM has suspended construction of some of the the Ivanpah Solar Thermal Power Plant due to the project reaching its upper limit number of tortoise killed for the Biological Opinion and incidental take limits established…

  • Have you come across any interesting Wildlife News? April 18, 2011

    Ken Cole

    Note that this replaces the 27th edition. That edition will now move slowly into the depths of the blog.  Please do not post entire articles here, just the link, the title, and your comments. Posting other people’s writing is a violation of copyright law and  takes up too much space.

  • Wuerthner: Wolf Restoration is a Challenge to West’s Old Guard

    Brian Ertz

    Anti-Wolfer’s Success In An End-Run Delisting of Wolves MUST Ultimately Backfire George Wuerthner wrote this now apt essay over a year ago, published in New West last September, suggesting that should anti-wolf interests succeed in delisting wolves and fail to exercise restraint in killing wolves that it would ultimately backfire. Wolf Restoration is a Challenge…

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