The Wildlife News

March 27, 2017

  • Sacrificing the Grizzlies of Katmai: the Plan to Turn Brooks Camp Into a Theme Park

    Barrie Gilbert

    One of Alaska’s most treasured bear-viewing sites is about to be turned into a destination theme park, sacrificing grizzly bear habitat on the altar of commercial development. After a decade of development planning, EIS and public input, once aimed at major improvements in resource protection, the National Park Service has aborted earlier plans for removal…

  • Tell Congress: Back Off Legislation Using Sage Grouse to Transfer Public Lands

    Ralph Maughan

      Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT) and Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID) have introduced legislation that is an extreme and irresponsible attack on your public lands and the wildlife they support. This bill has the Orwellian title of the “Greater Sage Grouse Protection and Recovery Act,” (S.273, H.R.527). These bills would do the opposite of what their…

  • Livestock production does not benefit sage grouse

    George Wuerthner

    A recent modeling study that looked at livestock grazing and sage grouse has been getting a lot of play in the media with headlines like “Livestock Grazing Can Benefit Sage Grouse, Study Says.” http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/study-says-some-livestock-grazing-could-benefit-struggling-sage-grouse/article_1d49f8a5-6e59-5954-9a55-9026961a44cf.html And not surprisingly, representatives of the livestock industry are quick to pounce on the study as evidence that livestock grazing is…

  • The Pocatello Supply Depot makes M-44s

    Let’ s end Wildlife Service’s Poisons

    Ralph Maughan

    Pocatello, Idaho. Last week 14-year-old Canyon Mansfield watched his yellow lab Casey die from the effects of an explosive cyanide device set out by the federal government agency named Wildlife Services (WS). This happened near his home but on public land (BLM) just east of Pocatello. The device, named an M-44, explosively releases a powder…

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Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

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