By great good luck, I was assigned to Yellowstone National Park as a resource management specialist in March of 1980, at the same time the first Northern Rocky Mountain Wolf Recovery Plan was relea…| The Wildlife News
“The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs defenders.” Ed Abbey Abbey was right. There have been a number of books and articles over the last twenty or thirty years that have critica…| The Wildlife News
Sagebrush and storm over Trout Creek Mountains, Oregon. Photo George Wuerthner The sagebrush steppe dominates the drier parts of the West, including parts of Southeast Oregon, much of Nevada, south…| The Wildlife News
One continuously hears that “common sense” dictates that logging the forest to decrease “fuels” will eliminate or reduce large wildfires. Thinning of ponderosa pine, Black Hills National Forest, So…| The Wildlife News
Clepsydra geyser erupting, Fountain Paint Pots, Yellowstone NP, WY. Photo by George Wuerthner We do not want those whose first impulse is to compromise. We want no straddlers, for, in the past, the…| The Wildlife News
Impacts are Equal to Population multiplied by Tools multiplied by Energy available to drive those Tools Editors Note: The Wildlife News has a history of tackling difficult and sometimes uncomfortab…| The Wildlife News
Cattle grazing, a practice that dates back to the creation of Grand Teton National Park and is also observed in a dozen other parks, is a part of the park’s historical legacy. However, that legacy …| The Wildlife News
