Reader generated wildlife news.

By On January 24, 2021 · 178 Comments · In Wildlife News

Reader generated wildlife news beginning on Jan. 24, 2021

This is a new page of “Reader Generated Wildlife News.” These are stories posted by the readers of The Wildlife News. These can be links to stories in the media or a complete wildlife story you have written. Please do not post copyrighted material although you […]

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Regional Web Cams

By On November 28, 2015 · Leave a Comment · In Wildlife News

We have made links to web cams in Idaho, Western Montana and Western Wyoming-.

Alpine, ID/WY web cam. Located on the Idaho-Wyoming border looking east to the mouth of the Snake River Canyon.

Big Piney, WY air quality cam. Near Big Piney looking ENE across the desert to the Wind River […]

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Bozeman Watershed Project Based on Flawed Assumptions

By On April 7, 2021 · 1 Comment · In Wildlife News

 

Stream in Bozeman Watershed in Gallatin Range where thinning is proposed to reduce wildfire. Photo George Wuerthner

 

The Montana Forest Action Plan recently awarded funding to the Bozeman Watershed logging project.

Flawed assumptions and science characterize all these state-funded projects. Even though numerous studies have documented that logging/thinning fails to […]

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Livestock Influence On Soil Carbon Storage

By On April 6, 2021 · 2 Comments · In Cattle, Climate Change, Domestic Sheep, Grazing and Livestock, Invasive Species, Soil, Water

Cattle congregating in the riparian area, Chama, New Mexico. Photo George Wuerthner

SOIL CARBON AND LIVESTOCK

Rangelands make up a large proportion of the Earth’s surface, and the soils hold a significant amount of sequestered carbon (Schuman,G.E et al.  2001). Rangelands are estimated to contain more than one-third of the world’s above […]

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Mexican wolf depredation investigations …. again

By On April 5, 2021 · 4 Comments · In Endangered Species Act, Mexican Wolves

Hey folks, I’m back to reviewing Mexican wolf depredation investigation reports and sifting through another few hundred pages of blood, guts, bones, and grammatical errors, and today I found these two from Apache County, Arizona in May 2020: AC 5-27-20 3, AC 5-27-20 4.

Both of the reports are about really young dead calves, […]

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Antidote For Rural Sprawl–Land Use Zoning

On April 1, 2021 By

Rural subdivision in Gallatin County, Montana. Photo George Wuerthner

Back when I was a student at the University of Montana in Missoula, I had a girlfriend who managed to rent a house adjacent to the Bitterroot Mountains near Hamilton. All of us were very jealous of her luck in obtaining a place […]

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The 99-Year Old Grandmother Argument–The Bias of Forestry Advocates

On March 30, 2021 By

 

To many foresters and others who advocate for “active forest management,” a fire that results in high tree mortality is considered evidence of an “unhealthy” forest. Photo George Wuerthner 

This past week I was invited to present my views on forest health and fire ecology to a group of Washington State […]

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Domestic Sheep Threaten Wild Bighorns

On March 29, 2021 By

Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep Ram. Photo George Wuerthner

Bighorn sheep acquired their name for the large circular horns of the mature rams. They are strongly associated with mountain terrain, particularly steep hills and cliffs, which protect them against predators. They graze upon grasses and other plants. In general, bighorns are associated with […]

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California Coastal Commission Bans ORVs

On March 22, 2021 By

Dust and air pollution from particulates is a threat to the health of nearby residents. Photo George Wuerthner 

 

On March 18th, the California Coastal Commission appeared to settle a long-simmering dispute over Thrillcraft use of the Oceano Dunes Vehicular Recreation Area near Pismo Beach, California.

For forty years, the Coastal Commission […]

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Another dead Mexican wolf in Arizona; Can we release adults now?

On March 19, 2021 By

You might not have seen the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service news release this week that announced the illegal killing of another Mexican wolf in Arizona. Authorities are looking for information on “a vehicle that was stopped or driving slowly near the Saffel Canyon Trailhead on the evening of February 18, 2021,” or anything […]

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Point Reyes National Something-or-Other

On March 18, 2021 By

“What’s in a name?  That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.”

What should we call the diverse, wild, inspiring but scarred peninsula sliding very slowly past us, jurisdictionally in West Marin County, California, but geologically across the San Andreas Fault, on the Pacific Plate, going steadily its own […]

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Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act Introduced

On March 10, 2021 By

The Gallatin Range south of Bozeman is one of the many wildlands that would receive wilderness designation in NREPA. Photo George Wuerthner

On March 10th, Representative Maloney of New York reintroduced the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA) legislation into Congress. NREPA is visionary. The legislation is big—it would protect 23 million […]

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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