Coyote Crossing

Lawmakers try to lift wolf protection despite deal

It’s always depressing when I get in an argument with Gang Green and then it turns out I’m right. There’s a big part of me that still really wants to respect those groups, and losing an argument in public would really be a small price to pay to

Wolf Update: Help the groups that stood firm

Interesting discussion going on in the wolf post comments, with several people who know more than I do holding forth instructively — and one person who knows remarkably less than I do as well. It’s funny: as that commenter, “K,” was accusing me of

The Further Adventures of Gang Green

Last week ten green groups signed off on delisting the gray wolf in Montana and Idaho.

The ten – let us name the names – were Defenders of Wildlife, the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance,

Mojave Wolf

Via Basin and Range Watch, a site you should be checking out regularly, this excerpt of a story from Dennis Casebier’s Mojave Road guide (Tales of the Mojave Road):

Last wolf of the East Mojave: Pauline Watson - standing, right - trapped this

Yeah, I want his job.

Via my … (continues)

Regarding the Mexican Wolf

Taking a break from educating the public at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

I’ve been quiet here for a little bit. Some of the reason is that I’ve been busy with a couple of other projects, one of which I’ll be saying more about here in a few

Obama administration reprieves wolf protection

A bit of promising news from the Obama administration after its first full workday:

With a new administration in charge, federal regulators Wednesday promised a second look at a recent decision to drop gray wolves in the Great Lakes and Northern

Mexican Wolf

One of the last wild Mexican wolves, filmed only a short time before the species went extinct in the wild. Details by the videographer are below the … (continues)

Last gasp Bush plan to kill Yellowstone wolves

What is it with these psychotic Republicans and their wolf-killing fetish?

Via Tmorph:

The Bush Administration is determined to ram through a new wolf-killing plan before leaving office. This dangerous scheme could allow the Northern Rockies

On Sarah Palin

You know, I get being angry at so-called progressives who descended into the depths of misogyny to color their opposition to Clinton. Used to be I had a reputation online, deserved or not, for defending even the most odious of women from attacks