The Wilderness Sportsman

It’s these kinds of plans that prove mankind really hasn’t come all that far - at least at this point.

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“We’ve got way too many elk,” said John Scully, a rancher living in Montana’s Madison Valley. “Clearly with so many elk, the risk rises. We need to reduce their numbers.”

What kind of clueless jackass moves to elk country and then complains about too many elk?

I’ve sided with ranchers in terms of keeping open space for a long time. Anti-wildlife ranchers are still better than subdivisions(although I detest the mentality). But this is a completely idiotic position. I can gaurantee that public opinion will always favor conservaiton in and around Yellowstone. If the ranchers press, they will only dig a deeper hole in terms of favorability.

What…you mean Mr. 25% Approval Rating cares about climate change?

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BERLIN - The U.S. government has done the least among the world’s eight biggest economies to address global warming, a study released Thursday found.

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And the way it isn’t working most places anymore. “Where the Wild Things Were,” William Stolzenburg’s remarkably engaging book, is an account of how predators have been hunted and squeezed out of most of the human landscape, and about what that has meant for the rest of our planet’s biology. Nothing good being the short answer.

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Park officials say the black bear charged the three researchers who had been conducting a botany study along the McKinley River.

The bear approached the team’s field camp late Friday. The workers initially chased the animal off, but it circled their camp several times, clawing one of their tents at some point.

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But closer to home, long-time Lewis and Clark County residents remember 1988 as the year the 247,000-acre Canyon Creek Fire ran out of the Scapegoat Wilderness and threatened the town of Augusta, and the 47,000-acre Warm Springs Creek fire that consumed 14 structures in the Elkhorn Mountains.

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LOS ANGELES—Patrols have failed to find any sign of Moe the chimp, who vanished last week in the San Bernardino National Forest after escaping his cage, a spokesman for the heartbroken owners said Wednesday

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Minimal fire activity Monday night allowed firefighters to contain 50 percent of the North Mountain fire, which by Tuesday had burned 2,750 acres in a remote area of the Stanislaus National Forest and into Yosemite National Park.