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White Mountain Conservation League There's discouraging news in the latest Mexican wolf project monthly update. Two more lobos were found dead during October: Rim male pup mp1186 and single wolf F1028, the former Laredo alpha female, who lost her mate to a poacher in 2008. Causes of death haven't been revealed; both deaths are under investigation.
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Backcountry Hunters and Anglers...and ATVs. Scroll down to the Tale of Two Hunts....
One of the best elk hunting experiences of my life and one of the worst ones both occurred during the month of October, 2003 in the Moose Buttes area of Idaho’s North Fork ofthe Clearwater River.
www.backcountryhunters.org
White Mountain Conservation League Researchers from Michigan Technological University found that when wolves take down their prey—in this case moose—they do more than simply keep a check on herbivore populations. The corpses of wolf-hunted moose create hotspots of forest fertility by enriching the soil with biochemicals.
news.mongabay.com
As hunting wolves is legal again in two American states, Montana and Idaho, researchers have discovered an important role these large predators play in creating nutrient hotspots in forest environments. ...
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The confessions of an off-road-vehicle outlaw....By God, it was my right. No one could tell me I couldn't chop new roads through national forest land with my off-road vehicle and my chainsaw.
I paid my taxes. This land belonged to me. If a few trees had to be cut and some makeshift roads had to be opened, well, too bad.... It was worth it if I got to have a little more fun. My buddies in New Mexico and millions more around the country probably felt the same way.
Then I began to notice something about the Carson National Forest near Taos, N.M. The elk were leaving, migrating somewhere else, and the quality of the hunts I'd enjoyed began to decline. And I noticed something else: The elk were moving to areas where they didn't have to face harassment from rogue off-road-vehicle users like me.
www.sltrib.com
The confessions of an off-road-vehicle outlaw
White Mountain Conservation League Wolves, Moose, and Biodiversity!!! Moose eat plants; wolves kill moose.What difference does this classic predator-prey interaction make tobiodiversity? ...carcasses of moose killed by wolves at Isle Royale National Park enrichthe soil in "hot spots" of forest fertility around the kills, causingrapid microbial and fung...al growth that provide increased nutrients forplants in the area.
www.sciencedaily.com
ScienceDaily (Nov. 3, 2009) Moose eat plants; wolves kill moose. What difference does this classic predator-prey interaction make to biodiversity?
White Mountain Conservation League Looking for some bedtime reading? Wildland CPR researched the Forest Service road management strategies giving us insight into how our public lands are managed.
www.wildlandscpr.org
This report is the culmination of several months of research and investigation into the Forest Service’s road management strategies and protocols. In 2005, Wildlands CPR sent a Freedom of Information ...
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Lots of material now available from the Forest Service:
Building a Proposed Plan Option (http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/asnf/plan-revisi
Some of these documents are quite long and will take time to read and consider. We do not appear to be getting much support for a truly expanded Escudilla Wildness as we proposed. http://azwmcl.org/wilderness.html
www.fs.fed.us
The Apache and Sitgreaves National Forests, administered as one national forest, encompass over two million acres of magnificent mountain country in east-central Arizona.