The Wildlife News

March 2012

  • China Mountain/Browns Bench Wind Hits 2-Year Stall

    Brian Ertz

    A Wind developer in southern Idaho has hit a two-year road-block that casts significant doubt on whether the wind project sited in pristine sage grouse habitat along the border of Nevada will ever be developed at all. BLM defers China Mountain decision for two years – Elko Daily Free Press “stupid bird.” We’ve covered the…

  • Keystone pipeline said to be just an oil highway across the United States to foreign lands

    Ralph Maughan

    Democratic critics say pipeline will not increase U.S. oil supplies- Right now the U.S. Senate is considering a Republican effort to fast-track the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline.  Democrats will filibuster. Republicans are not likely to get the 60 votes to beat the filibuster. The pipeline is becoming a defining issue between the two parties,…

  • Payette National Forest Caves to the Sheep Industry

    Brian Ertz

    The Payette National Forest has announced its decision to capitulate to the domestic sheep industry and interpret the Bighorn Sheep Rider passed via the  2012 Consolidated Appropriations Act in a way contrary to the clear language of the statute, halting implementation of it’s Payette Decision which would have removed domestic sheep use from the Forest in…

  • Utah may have its first wolf pack and it is south of I-80

    Ken Cole

    Over the weekend USDA Wildlife Services agents, while out flying around killing coyotes, observed what they think were four wolves or wolf dog hybrids near Springville, Utah. There have been reports of wolves there for the past year and a half. The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources plans to attempt to capture them in the…

  • Oregon legislature ends. Wolf kill bill is itself dead; but livestock owner compensation passes.

    Ralph Maughan

    Effort to revive the wolf killing bill ran out of time- It passed the Oregon House, but was thought to be dead in the state Senate, but it was revived. At any rate, the Oregon Legislature adjourned with the bill to make it easier for the state to kill wolves died too. However, a bill…

  • “Drill baby drill” isn’t an energy policy, it’s more cultural resentment

    Ralph Maughan

    “Energy independence” has been the Republican energy policy since 1974- Americans have a bad case of Alzheimer’s when it come to knowledge or remembrance of energy policy.  Politicians usually give them a couple shots of rhetorical whiskey to make their memory even worse.  This is my effort to help folks remember. Gasoline prices spiked in the United States for the first…

  • Luckless mating season is over. “Journey” OR(7) returns to Oregon from California

    Ralph Maughan

    Famous wolf’s inability to find a mate in California is not surprising- The West’s currently best known wolf, named “Journey” in a contest held by conservation groups, did not find a mate in California. Now mating season is over. The wolf, officially OR(7), has returned to SW Oregon, although his lack of a mate is…

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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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