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Wildlife's Top Public Relations Firm - Big Wildlife!

February 23rd, 2008 No Comments

Here's a neat site to check out: BigWildlife.
What's Big Wildlife?
"Big Wildlife was formed in 2006 to provide a voice for carnivores such as cougars, bears, coyotes, and wolves in North America. Dynamic, gutsy, and visionary, Big Wildlife combines innovative media strategies with nuts and bolts grassroots organizing. We provide training to activists – […]

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Mexican Gray Wolf Population Declines

February 8th, 2008 No Comments

Population decline of the wild population of Mexican gray wolves in the Blue Range Wolf Recovery Area in southwestern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona.
From a statement published by Dave Parsons, Conservation Biologist for the Rewilding Institute:
"Today’s news of a 12% decline in the wild population of Mexican wolves is a big disappointment but, frankly, […]

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Peeking beneath the Governors robes

February 7th, 2008 No Comments

Guest post by Dr. Brian L. Horejsi
I suspect that too few Montanans are aware of the activities of their governor, particularly when he ventures beyond state borders. Very recently he popped up in Calgary, Alberta, to glad hand with the oil and gas industry. Now we’ve all heard that ignorance is bliss, and while […]

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CPAWS Selling Out to Off Road Clubs?

January 17th, 2008 No Comments

This letter ran in three regional southern Alberta newspapers (Ft. MacLeod Gazette, Pincher Ck Echo, and the Crowsnest Pass Promoter)
Dear Editor,
The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society and their Alberta representative have finally removed their robes and exposed a truly vacant environmental and conservation philosophy. They did it in an e-mail solicitation of […]

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Last chance for the Lobo

December 20th, 2007 No Comments

Upcoming High Country News FEATURE ARTICLE
December 24, 2007 by John Dougherty

Last chance for the lobo. MEXICAN WOLF REINTRODUCTION PROJECT
In a bloody battle over control of public land, Mexican wolves are caught in the crossfire.
Debbie Miller, a hardy brunette with a butterfly tattoo on her right arm, walks past the family shooting range just […]

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Arizona Replublic Opinion Piece on Wolves

December 17th, 2007 No Comments

Let wolves prosper
Original 
Dec. 17, 2007 12:00 AM
This is about wolves, not cows. Somebody tell the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The effort to reintroduce endangered Mexican gray wolves in Arizona and New Mexico was carefully crafted to address the concerns of ranchers who use the public lands. This was a fair approach.
But it is not fair […]

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Resolution recently issued by the American Society of Mammalogists regarding protection and recovery of the Mexican wolf

October 9th, 2007 No Comments

Reintroduction and Conservation of the Mexican Gray Wolf
WHEREAS, since its inception, the American Society of Mammalogists has opposed those predator-control programs that are not based on sound scientific research; and,
WHEREAS, the U.S. Endangered Species Act mandates formal recovery plans for all listed taxa using the best available science; […]

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Natural History Characteristics of Focal Species in the New Mexico Highlands Wildlands Network.

September 6th, 2007 No Comments

Dave Parsons, 68 pages, PDF
Species Covered

Gray Wolf
Mountain Lion
Black Bear
American Marten
Bighorn Sheep
Elk
Beaver
River Otter
Lynx

Download the report!
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Sustainable Development:Expanded Environmental Destruction

August 18th, 2007 No Comments

Report by David Orton
In Halifax, Nova Scotia, a conference was held on 15-17 October 1989, based on the concept of "sustainable development". The conference was organized by the Nova Scotia Department of the Environment and was called "Building Partnerships for Environmentally Sound Development in Nova Scotia". One of the conference objectives was "to initiate […]

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Burying the facts does not eliminate the truth about off road vehicles on public lands

August 18th, 2007 11 Comments

Guest Article by Brian L. Horejsi
Crimes against the land, crimes against our streams and rivers and wetlands, crimes against clean air, crimes against fish, wildlife and birds, crimes against wild plants, crimes against soil, crimes against quiet and solitude, crimes against peaceful non motorized public lands users; the list goes on and on. […]

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