A wolf encounter
Tim Lydon, who works in Alaska, writes of an encounter he had with a wolf there during the late summer that was very calm and seemed motivated out of curiosity more than anything.
Calm of the wild.
by Tim Lydon – Missoula Independent
This is similar to all of the […]
Continue Reading →Six month moratorium on new deep water well permits; lease auctions off Virginia and Alaska coast put in suspension. Partial ban on new spuds-
There is finally action by the Administration on oil leases and permits to drill in various places off-shore. It is expected that today the President will announce there will be […]
Continue Reading →Lisa Murkowski blocks Senate bill To Raise Oil Spill Liability Cap (with VIDEO)-
Murkowski said wanted to protect the “mom and pop” oil companies from having to face large liabilities. Mom and pop oil companies?
If you can’t pay for your damages, you should not get a permit!
May be reintroduced to Alaska as an experimental, non-essential population.
Alaska wants to reintroduce wood bison from Canada but they are currently listed as an endangered species by the USFWS. In response there is an effort to classify them as an experimental, non-essential population under the 10(j) rule so that there will be less protection […]
Continue Reading →(VIDEO): Legislature To Vote On Confirmation April 9-
I’m on vacation, but this item on Huffington Post was too good to pass up.
It is just pathetic that a person like this could rise to a position of overseeing wildlife management in such an important place as Alaska.
They say that the director doesn’t even have the background for an entry-level position.
In February, Corey Rossi, the Alaska Division of Wildlife, Wildlife Director, wrote an opinion piece for the Anchorage Daily News which opined that wildlife should be managed under the abundance-based management model which “requires man to work with the land […]
Continue Reading →This might be the second wolf-caused death in North America in the last hundred or so years-
There were a lot of breathless stories about this yesterday, but the one below seems to be more current and complete.
Continue Reading →Friend of the Toklat pack in Denali National Park thought dead in air crash-
Gordon Haber feared dead. By Craig Medred. Alaska Dispatch.
“Biologist Gordon Haber loved wolves. Most of all, he loved the wolves of the Toklat pack in Denali National Park, and it now it appears that love has cost him his […]
Continue Reading →Unfortunate side effect to poisoning effort was the loss of 43 bald eagles and many other birds.
Alaska’s Rat Island apparently rid of its namesake pest
By Erika Bolstad | McClatchy Newspapers
Pacific northwest dry and burning as rest of West has a cool and moist summer respite-
We planned to go to B.C. and Alaska this summer. Glad we didn’t. Instead we stayed in Pocatello, Idaho where a very wet late spring and cooler than normal summer has greatly reduced normal fires and given clean skies.
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