Human-caused fire just one ridge south of Cache Creek!
Revised on 9/11 afternoon. All of the mountains immediately south of Jackson, WY have been closed due to the Little Horsethief Fire Horsethief Canyon Fire that started from an illegal private trash fire late Saturday and now is over 1500 2600 acres just south of the […]
Continue Reading →Rotenone poisoning begins Sept 10 in Elk Creek to eliminate non-native brook trout-
Tomorrow eradication of brook trout will begin at Elk Creek. So too Lost and Yancy Creek tributaries of Elk Creek will be dosed with the fish poison rotenone. Before the project is over non-native fish are slated to be eliminated from these […]
Continue Reading →Red Flag warning day with leading east flank of 261,000 acre fire less than 2 miles from U.S 93-
After several days of gentle breezes, Aug. 9 began with a “red flag” warning over all of Eastern and East Central Idaho. High winds and the super dry forest, grass, and brush covering the Salmon River […]
Continue Reading →Talk about the need for a presidential candidate science debate leads somewhere-
Back in 2008 there was mounting concern that science had always been left out of the presidential debates. This concern led to efforts to demand presidential candidates discuss these issues. Soon there was the formation of Science Debate 2008. This group, small at […]
Continue Reading →Kerry Gunther, Yellowstone bear management/biology leader, says no evidence for this in Park-
The story goes back a long time. Fortunately my spouse never believed it or we wouldn’t have written so many books and articles about camping, backpacking, outdoor medicine, etc. in the West. From the start there was the rumor that a menstruating […]
Continue Reading →Wyoming Game and Fish Department offers extra elk licenses-
Now that Wyoming has gained the authority to manage wolves and will soon have a wolf hunt, the much lamented lack of elk due to those “insatiable packs of killing machines” — wolves — has suddenly turned around and there are said to be too many […]
Continue Reading →Fire burns into Montana, threatens U.S. 93, 9/3/12, 210,000 215,000 221,000 acres in size-
9/3-2012. Update: check with Inciweb for latest evacuations along or near U.S. Highway 93, North Fork, or in the Montana portion of the fire (such as Hughes Creek). These evacuation levels have been increased.
There are now 933 960 personnel, including […]
Continue Reading →The reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park turned the nation’s most prominent national park into a laboratory of sorts, whereby scientists could document and measure the effect of wolves on a variety of other species. Since their return, dozens of studies have been published purporting to show some effect of wolves on some other […]
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