Thoughts From The Middle of Nowhere

Category: wolves

  • Another Round For The Wolves

    <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2009/01/15/news/state/21-delist.txt">Wolf to go off list in Montana, not Wyoming</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Gray wolves in the western Great Lakes and Northern Rockies will be removed from the federal endangered-species list by late February under a plan announced Wednesday by the Bush administration.<br />n<br />nLeft out of the plan were wolves in Wyoming, where state officials sought…

  • A Plan

    <a href="http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080330/NEWS01/803300320/1002">Montana willing to share wolves with other states</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The head of Montana's wolf program said earlier this week that the state would be willing to trap and transplant wolves to other states if requested.<br />n<br />n"We're open to it," said Caroline Sime of Montana Fish, Wildlife &amp; Parks, in response to criticism from…

  • Who Knew

    [sarcasm]<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/02/28/news/state/42-wolves.txt">What a surprise, I never expected this to happen. Who knew?</a>[/sarcasm]

  • Funding

    <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/02/21/news/state/18-wolfstatus.txt">Funding questions abound as feds change wolf's status</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Returning gray wolves to the Northern Rockies has already cost more than $27 million. Keeping them here will mean spending millions of dollars more.<br />n<br />nBut with federal officials poised today to announce the removal of wolves from the endangered-species list, there are unresolved questions…

  • Conversation

    Back room conversation at Earthjustice:<br />n<br />n<blockquote>We can't have the state's controlling the wildlife in their borders now can we? No, the Constitution and us would never allow such a thing. The tenth Amendment to the Constitution you say? Who cares, we've ignored it before. <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/01/29/news/state/30-wolfsuit.txt">Let's sue</a> to prevent prevent states from having any…

  • Endangered?

    <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/01/15/news/state/55-endangered.txt" title="Bullshit">Lawmakers: Wolves still endangered</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>In a recent letter to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, the congressmen wrote that states "hostile to wolf conservation" could reduce today's 1,500 wolves to "as few as 300" if the predators lose protected status.</blockquote><br />n<br />nI would really like to see where Rep. Nick Rahall, Rep. George Miller,…

  • One Calf Does Not Equal Nine Lambs

    It appears that a <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/06/21/news/state/84-wolf.txt">wolf killing 9 lambs</a> near Big Timber merits an attempt to kill it, while a <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/06/21/news/state/86-calf.txt">calf killed by wolves near Eureka</a> (The original story headline was "Calf kills wolf near Eureka." I'm sure this has been corrected by now though thinking about it, it would be nice if calves…

  • Second Herd Negative for Brucellosis

    Well, the second herd of cattle near Emigrant <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/05/24/news/state/25-brucellosis.txt">tested all negative for Brucellosis</a>. This allows me to breathe a small sigh of relief. Small I say. They are still testing cattle around the affected herds in Bridger so we could still see problems there so a big sigh of relief is not applicable. <br…

  • Different Viewpoint

    I'm afraid I am going to have to take a little different viewpoint than most ranchers on <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/04/11/news/state/56-legiwolves.txt">this subject</a>. Why should we spend money on getting the wolf delisted when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has all ready <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/01/30/news/state/25-wolf.txt">announced that it has planned on doing it</a>? Admittedly it is still in the…

  • Mange

    Am I supposed to feel bad that the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/03/02/news/state/25-century.txt">wolves in Yellowstone Park have the mange</a>?<br />n<br />nI'll guarantee you I don't feel bad about it. I only notice mange in coyotes whenever there is too many of them around so this must be a sure sign God/Mother Nature believes there are too many wolves…