Dan Groebner (AZ G&F) is the guest speaker at White Mountain Audubon’s meeting next Wednesday, November 3, 7 pm, at Pinetop-Lakeside Town Council Chambers. He’ll be talking about the bald eagles.
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While hiking on the Hulsey Bench a couple of weeks ago, we (grandson and I) round some great tracks. Looked like a mama bear and cub had recently walked down our path. . . . → Read More: Bear Tracks on the Hulsey Bench Top predators may hold a key to life itself. Can people and predators coexist? Can we afford not to? Birds, butterflies, beaver and antelope, wildflowers and frogs — could their survival possibly be connected to top predators like the wolf and cougar? Narrated by Peter Coyote, Green Fire Productions has created a captivating documentary that goes behind the scenes with leading scientists to explore the role top predators play in restoring and maintaining ecosystems and biodiversity. . . . → Read More: Lords of Nature Showings in Tucson “From the time we started doing that in 2007 up to now, we’ve had zero wolf depredations,” Dobson said, sitting at the kitchen table of his family’s spacious log home on a private inholding surrounded by the Apache National Forest. “I think the fence has a lot to do with it.” A few miles away, rancher Sydney Maddock and Eddie Lee, her ranch manager, have hired a range rider — a cowboy or cowgirl who monitors the herd — to make sure her cattle stay safe. They have also started allowing calves to grow bigger before turning them out onto their federal grazing allotment so that they are less vulnerable to depredation. . . . → Read More: Resigned to Living With Wolves, More Ranchers Are Giving Deterrence Projects a Try PHOENIX — They have startled the residents of Ahwatukee, a bedroom community in southern Phoenix. They have tramped on lawns and damaged vehicles in Rio Rancho, a neighborhood of tract homes outside Albuquerque. A Border Patrol agent lost his life crashing into one of them near the Mexican border in Texas. Read more in the NY Times. . . . → Read More: Arizona Rethinking Open Range Laws The U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife has delayed releasing additional Mexican gray wolves in Arizona until sometime next year. The U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife has delayed releasing additional Mexican gray wolves in Arizona until sometime next year. The gray-wolf population is stagnating in the Southwest, and the animal is vilified by some ranchers as an unwelcome predator being reintroduced to the region by the government. The federal government late last week agreed with the Arizona Game and Fish Department that the release of a pack of eight wolves in southeastern Arizona should be postponed. . . . → Read More: For now, no more wolves for Arizona The seven Saddle pack puppies, including F1054 and F1055, when they were removed from the wild in 2007. The entire pack was removed after the adults killed three head of cattle. Photo courtesy of USFWS. You can help free these wolves from captivity by sending a very brief e-mail to FWS Region 2 Director Benjamin Tuggle. Simply copy and paste the message below into an email, and add a simple sentence or two of your own. Please add your name and address at the end, because anonymous letters get little attention. Remember, too, that polite requests are more effective. . . . → Read More: F1054 and F1055: Re-release candidates of the week!
Doctors are seeing more people with brain and spinal cord injuries related to ATV use, and many of the injured are youngsters, according to a new study published in the October issue of Neurosurgery, the official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. . . . → Read More: Study: ATV injuries on the rise in the U.S., cost $3.2 billion in medical care per year Northland Pioneer College will be offering a 4-hour course in Wilderness First Aid. This course is a must for anyone who enjoys the outdoors. Instructor: Joanne Feller STC 099x Section 66127 • Cost: $45 ($30 course fee, $15 fee payable to instructor to cover the cost of a basic first aid kit.) Prevention/treatment of possible . . . → Read More: Wilderness First Aid for the Outdoor Enthusiast |
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