The Wildlife News

A Project of Sage Steppe Wild

June 9, 2020

  • Little Fir Creek after grazing 2019

    The “restoration grazing” concepts that fell flat in court

    Ralph Maughan

    Ed. note: An earlier draft version of this post was inadvertently posted before final review. Please replace all prior copies with this final draft.    Last summer, in a remote corner of the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming, in the one spot with just a little cell reception, I sat in my car listening by phone to…

  • Blocking livestock-related reprisals against grizzlies on public lands

    Ralph Maughan

    Western Watersheds Project,  Alliance for the Rockies, and the Yellowstone to Uintas Connection are seeking to block the killing of up to 72 grizzly bears over the next 10 years on national forest land in the headwaters of the Green River. With the Yellowstone grizzly listed as a ‘threatened species’ under the Endangered Species Act,…

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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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