Tag: Predator Removals
Bad News for Range and Wildlife Science: An “F” Grade for America’s Elite Colleges
American Council of Trustees and Alumni vice president of policy Michael Poliakoff on the state of the country’s most prestigious liberal arts colleges.
Petition Targets ‘Rogue’ Killings by Wildlife Services
NOTE: Article initially appeared in the Washington Post on December 15th, 2013. Darryl Fears They say U.S. critter assassins work in secret, quietly laying traps, lacing food with poison, sniping at targets from helicopters. Few …
Aoudad, The Bogus Boogeyman
Eradication Science or Eradication Snake Oil? This piece asks common sense questions about the increasing use of wild animal eradication as a primary conservation tool, and about the foundations on which these practices …
Creosote Bush: An Unassuming But Ancient Form of Life All Around Us
Though sometimes regarded as a nuisance by residents of the arid Southwest, the creosote bush is a complex and fascinating plant – and creosote colonies constitute some of the oldest organisms known to inhabit the …
Planned Grazing and Keyline-Contour Subsoiling Restores Damaged Land at Circle Ranch, March 2009 – September 2013
In the southwest corner of Circle Ranch in the deep, steppe-shrub desert, we have a stock tank which we call “Lobo” because it was the last place that the Mexican wolf was seen in Hudspeth …
Trans-Pecos Mule Deer Population Declines 40 Percent – Mule Deer Hunting Season is Lengthened
Far-West Texas: The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has extended the mule deer season through the last Sunday in January for those properties operating under Managed Land Deer Permits (MLDP).
Savory Institute: Holistic Management Research Portfolio
Allan Savory at Circle Ranch, June 2009 Almost every American wildlife agency, conservation organization, university, wildlife and range scientist is pledged to the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation. The Model lists its Core Principal #6 …
Genuine Land Stewardship
Steve Nelle on Genuine Land Stewardship Reprinted in its entirety below is an excellent article by our friend, Steve Nelle, entitled Genuine Land Stewardship. Steve is a range and wildlife scientist who has enjoyed a long and …
Mountain Lion in Red Mountain Pasture, June 20, 2010
“The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, “What good is it?” If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we …
Ruben Cantu on Predator Control
Ruben is the West Texas TPWD Regional Director . He offered his personal opinion on predator control: