The Wildlife News

July 2012

  • Where have the porcupines gone?

    Ken Cole

    When I was younger I commonly saw porcupines in Idaho. I saw them on trees, I saw them on trails, I saw them on roads, they were common. But, I haven’t seen one since the mid nineties. Where did they go? They seem to have disappeared and nobody is really noticing. Are they declining due…

  • Dr. Robert Crabtree – Little scientific basis to justify control programs that indiscriminately target adult coyotes

    Ralph Maughan

    Famous scientist tells USDA Wildlife Services their age old coyote killing program actually increases number of coyotes and depredations- USDA Wildlife Services and its prior incarnations such as Animal Damage Control and Predator and Rodent Control has been indiscriminately killing coyotes for as long as the agency existed. This practice has often irritated a diffuse…

  • More of U.S. in drought now than in recent history

    Ralph Maughan

    Lack of precipitation and heat reflected in The Drought Monitor- Twelve years ago the National Drought Mitigation Center created the Drought Monitor.  Drought Monitor blends various indicators of drought to create a U.S. map showing if any of the country is experiencing drought. It also shows how severe the drought conditions are. Supplementary maps show short term…

  • Washington State’s Lookout wolf pack featured in Discovery Channel program July 7 (Sat)

    Ralph Maughan

    Will wolves thrive in Blue states and disappear in the Red? Wolves have migrated to Washington State from Idaho and directly from British Columbia.  This is perhaps in part due to the pogrom against them in the adjacent deep red state of Idaho where once there were more than 800 wolves. Now these new Washington…

  • Idaho to make wolf hunting year round

    Ralph Maughan

    State to always have at least one area open to wolf hunting- New rules! Idaho has decided in effect to always have at least one place in the state open to wolf hunting on a rotating basis.  This is in addition to the general wolf hunt that goes for about half a year. Wolf hunting…

  • Wildfires dominate outdoors news in the Western U.S (with updates)

    Ralph Maughan

    Montana becomes the state with biggest and largest number of wildlfires- The Fontenelle Fire smokes up Western Wyoming recreation country- Utah suffers from an amazing number of fires started by target shooting- Wildfires are now on the decline in New Mexico and Arizona with one new exception, Horse Canyon Fire.  However, they are on the…

  • Latest official Wyoming wolf report shows livestock losses continue to be trivial

    Ralph Maughan

    Wyoming wolf population is stable and depredations of livestock low- Mike Jimenez manages the wolves in Wyoming outside of Yellowstone National Park. He works for the federal government. This is because Wyoming wolves are not yet delisted from the protection of the endangered species act. Jimenez has just released the latest statistics and details of…

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