The Wildlife News

wildlife

  • Wallow Fire will have big impact on wildlife

    Ralph Maughan

    Giant fire is killing and maybe renewing- The Wallow Fire continues its sweep across a mountainous region of Eastern Arizona, and is now reported burning into New Mexico. Wildlife are fleeing the flames and the smoke.  During the great Yellowstone Park area fires of 1988, animals died, but surprising few large animals died for the…

  • Have you come across any interesting wildlife news? May 29, 2011

    Ralph Maughan

    This replaces the 29th edition. That edition will now move slowly into the depths of the blog-

  • Cats pass Toxoplasmosis to Wildlife

    Ralph Maughan

    Here is a real threat- Although anti-wolf people try to scare us with the seldom caught Hydatid disease which is almost entirely spread, by dogs, fox, and coyotes, here is the latest on a very important threat from scat — domestic cat scat — toxoplasmosis gondii. I have mentioned T. gondii a number of times.…

  • Have you come across any interesting wildlife news? May 2, 2011

    Ralph Maughan

    Note that this replaces the 28th edition. That edition will now move slowly into the depths of the blog-

  • And in the end, hysteria triumphs in Idaho Legislature

    Ralph Maughan

    ” . . . our Legislature has completely abandoned reasoned discourse.” Editorial basically says Idaho legislature has gone bonkers. And in the end, hysteria triumphs in Idaho Legislature. Magic Valley (Twin Falls, ID) Times-News. Most of the comment on the blog has been about what happens to the wolves, but my take has also been…

  • Herds of desperate ungulates dying on Montana railroads, highways

    Ralph Maughan

    Severe winter in Eastern Montana is taking huge toll on pronghorn, other ungulates- In deep snow, antelope often seek out railroad tracks and highways so they can move.  When a train comes, and fences on both sides, hundreds can die; and they are, right now. Herds of desperate ungulates dying on Montana railroads, highways.Written by…

  • Western Montana: Biologists hunt for fisher hair in Fish Creek

    Ralph Maughan

    They must be nearby. Ken Cole saw one cross Highway 12 about 40 miles SW just the other day- Biologists hunt for fisher hair in Fish Creek. By Rob Chaney. Missoulian. “The Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness appears to be such good fisher habitat that it may hold the last original Montana and Idaho species – unrelated to…

  • Western Fish and Game (Wildlife) Comissions on the chopping block

    Ralph Maughan

    High Country News reports on moves to abolish or modify the traditional Fish and Game Commission- Western wildlife commissions on the chopping block. By Jodi Peterson.  High Country News This form of wildlife governance has come up for discussion many times on this blog.

Subscribe to get new posts right in your Inbox

‎”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

Latest Posts

×