Daniel Ashe confirmed by U.S. Senate as the new Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Career professional in agency to assume duties immediately after a long series of Republican “holds” on his nomination-
The Fish and Wildlife Service has been led since January 2009 Acting Director Rowan Gould.
“Holds” in the U.S. Senate on bills and nominations have become a kind of one-person filibuster. It is becoming difficult for any President to get anyone approved after his first round of major nominations. Ashe was held up not because of any controversy over his person, but over efforts by Republications to extract policy changes in exchange for allowing a vote.
As “Cody Coyote” wrote in a recent comment in this forum, one of the holds was by a Wyoming U.S. Senator John Barrasso trying to assure that the Service would delist the wolf in Wyoming.
Ashe Confirmed as U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director. Environment News Service.
Related. This meeting is part of the deal that got a vote on Ashe. Wolf meeting between Salazar, Ashe, Mead set for Thursday in Cheyenne. Associated Press in The Republic.

Ralph Maughan
Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University. He has been a Western Watersheds Project Board Member off and on for many years, and also its President. For many years he produced Ralph Maughan's Wolf Report. He was a founder of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He and Jackie Johnson Maughan wrote three editions of "Hiking Idaho." He also wrote "Beyond the Tetons" and "Backpacking Wyoming's Teton and Washakie Wilderness." He created and is the administrator of The Wildlife News.
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