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  • Lyme Disease rages in Northeast

    Ralph Maughan

    Wildlife solutions will irritate many people- A new AP story tells us that the incidence of deer tick borne Lyme Disease continues to grow in the U.S. Northeast and to spread.  Worse, the very cold winter did not seem to reduce the number of the ticks significantly as some had predicted. The “deer tick” that primarily…

  • A tiny fox shows strong recovery under the ESA

    Ralph Maughan

    Channel Island fox population grows from 50 to over 2000 in just 9 years- There are many species of fox around the world — 37 or so. Those fox with a naturally limited geographic range are likely to become the most quickly threatened by extinction. So it was with the (California) Channel Island Fox, which…

  • Some people think noises in a Blue Mountain Swamp are Bigfoot(s)

    Ralph Maughan

    Is the fabled, but never found, creature making weird noises in the Blue Mtns. east of Pendleton? The Wildlife News has discussed the matter of Bigfoot from time to time. Hint: search. There are often things that look, and this time sound strange in the outdoors, and this time some think it is Bigfoot or…

  • Fox are very important controlling Lyme Disease

    Ralph Maughan

    Small canine predator chows down on white footed mice- People have sometimes blamed white-tailed deer as a factor spreading this growing menace, but a new study “Deer, predators, and the emergence of Lyme disease” hypothesizes through modeling and correlation analysis that the ecology of small mammal predators plays a key role in controlling or facilitating…

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Edward Abbey

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Jim Fowler

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