Castle Rock Fire, Sawtooth National ForestRehabilitation Update - WildlifeSeptember 9, 2007
“From a wildlife perspective, this fire has created a lot of patches across the landscape that will produce different age classes, which will be good for wildlife habitat.” -Bobbi Filbert, Wildlife Biologist on the Burned Area Emergency Response Team
The Castle Rock Fire burned in a mosaic pattern, leaving islands of green interspersed with black. It is important to note, however, in some of the upper reaches of the fire, there were pockets of forest that burned at a very high intensity.
Several weeks have passed since the fire burned through some areas of the forest and tender succulent shoots are already growing in the burn area along Warm Springs Road. Recovery in other areas will take a lot longer.
During the winter, elk depend upon the bitterbrush, snowberry, and grasses lying beneath the snow on south-facing slopes. These slopes in Warm Springs and Greenhorn Gulch burned and will not have an opportunity to resprout before the snows fly in the next few months. This winter and next may be difficult ones for the elk herds. In future years, the elk will find plenty of food and herds will be stronger and larger than ever.
There are concerns about impacts from the burn to the winter elk range and the possibility of the introduction of non-native and noxious weeds. The U.S. Forest Service does not want to lose winter range to invasive species and scientists and specialists are in the process of assessing and making recommendations for both emergency stabilization and long-term recovery of the elk winter range on the Forest.
Monday, September 17, 2007
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Idaho Wild Fire
The Castle Rock Fire, just 17 miles north of my home, reached status as the #1 priority fire in the USA.
Saturday, August 4, 2007
Coyotes, Wolves, Etc..
In areas where they are hunted or trapped, coyotes, like bears and mountain lions, are extremely wary of humans, but they can be bold in urban areas where they associate people with food and water. In southern California between 1988 and 1997, there were 53 documented coyote attacks on humans, and 21 people were bitten. Most of these resulted in only minor injuries. However, several children have been more seriously bitten, and in 1981, coyotes attacked and killed a three-year-old girl in Glendale California.
Remember what happened when California stopped hunting mountain lions? Same thing!
Wolves are just bigger, more agressive Coyotes!
Today in America, a wolf attack must follow the following criteria in order to be labeled as a proper attack.
1. The wolf has to be killed, examined and found to be healthy.
2. It must be proven that the wolf was never kept in captivity in its entire life.
3. There must be eyewitnesses to the attack.
4. The person must die from their wounds.
KILLER WOLVES
Since historians seem to be having problems digging up this information, here are a few documented cases of wolves killing and/or injuring humans. Although wolves should not be excessively feared, and wolves that kill humans are rare, we do need the truth told by someone.
Research: Scott, Peter A., et al. “Aggressive Behavior by Wolves Toward Humans.” Journal of Mammalogy 66.4 (1985): 807-809; Munthe, Kathleen and J. Howard Hutchinson. “A Wolf-Human Encounter on Ellesmere Island, Canada” Journal of Mammalogy 59.4 (1978): 876-878; McNay, Mark E. “Interactions in Alaska and Canada: A Review of the Case History.” Wildlife Society Bulletin 30.3 (2002): 831-843.
Scientist: Arctic wolf attacks a scientist in Canada (1985—Arctic, Vol. 38, 1985).
Female Researcher: Three penned wolves had to be killed before rescuers could get to the body of a female wildlife reserve employee that the wolves had killed in their pen (1996—The Kingston Wig Standard, Ontario, Canada, April 20).
Trapper and Two Indians: An elderly trapper did not return to the post office as promised, so two Indians were sent to find him. All three were killed by wolves (1922— Port Arthur, Ontario newspaper, Dec. 27).
Negro Man: Two Negro men were attacked in Kentucky by wolves on the way home from visiting girlfriends. One survived by climbing a tree (1851—John James Audubon, “Black American Wolf” in Quadrupeds of North America).
Farmer and Son: A pack of wolves attacked and ate a farmer and his son (1888—The Saint Paul Daily Globe, March 8).
Eskimo Woman: She was strangled by a wolf as her husband rushed to her assistance (1829—John Richardson in “Fauna Boreali-Americana”).
Sick Indians: Not only did wolves come into the Indian camps and eat corpses dead of smallpox, but also attacked, killed, and ate the sick (1770—Peter Kalm in “Travels in North America”).
Injured: Several instances of nonfatal, but serious attacks in Canada and Alaska have appeared recently in the news: Algonquin Provincial Park, 1996; Yakutat, Alaska, 2000; Vargas Island, British Columbia, 2002 (The Wolf Society of Great Britain, www.myinternet.co.uk/wsgb/index.htm).
Rabies: Of course history is also full of accounts of rabid wolves killing humans, but advocates slip around these records by concentrating on “healthy” wolves. Since wild wolves can’t be vaccinated, why does it seem so comforting to think a wolf must be rabid to attack a human? By insisting the accounts be “documented,” scientists and advocates are also able to discredit hunters, Indians, Eskimos, and rural people who just “remember” but don’t write the story down or publish it.
Guns: Wolf attacks on humans seem to occur mostly in places where the general population is unarmed and/or where wolves are protected. The low number of recent historical encounters within the U.S. borders as compared to India, for instance, are probably due to the fact that during the period of America’s written history almost every citizen went about armed and seldom passed up a chance to shoot at a wolf. Protected animals lose their fear of humans.
Now that the wolves are on the ground, breeding like rabbits, depleting wild game and starting to get more serious about livestock, the public winds are about to change again. Plus, the U.S. government sure doesn’t want new trouble. Some history lessons maybe they remember!
Someone said FWS announced just five days earlier that they are turning the Mexican wolf recovery program over to Arizona Fish & Game. What a surprise! The same will soon happen in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. That way the states can be blamed and will have to deal with the public outcry as soon as the wolves are totally out of control. Next step? Call back the feds, of course, so they can play the cavalry riding in to save the day once again. We need some new movies.
http://www.rangemagazine.com/archives/stories/summer03/ground-hog.htm
Idaho had a few wolves around before the reintroduction of the Canadian wolves. They were hardly ever heard from or noticed. They were a smaller sub species and were relatively few in number. I hope a few of them survive. The "Reintroduced" Wolves will kill any of them they can catch.
Remember what happened when California stopped hunting mountain lions? Same thing!
Wolves are just bigger, more agressive Coyotes!
Today in America, a wolf attack must follow the following criteria in order to be labeled as a proper attack.
1. The wolf has to be killed, examined and found to be healthy.
2. It must be proven that the wolf was never kept in captivity in its entire life.
3. There must be eyewitnesses to the attack.
4. The person must die from their wounds.
KILLER WOLVES
Since historians seem to be having problems digging up this information, here are a few documented cases of wolves killing and/or injuring humans. Although wolves should not be excessively feared, and wolves that kill humans are rare, we do need the truth told by someone.
Research: Scott, Peter A., et al. “Aggressive Behavior by Wolves Toward Humans.” Journal of Mammalogy 66.4 (1985): 807-809; Munthe, Kathleen and J. Howard Hutchinson. “A Wolf-Human Encounter on Ellesmere Island, Canada” Journal of Mammalogy 59.4 (1978): 876-878; McNay, Mark E. “Interactions in Alaska and Canada: A Review of the Case History.” Wildlife Society Bulletin 30.3 (2002): 831-843.
Scientist: Arctic wolf attacks a scientist in Canada (1985—Arctic, Vol. 38, 1985).
Female Researcher: Three penned wolves had to be killed before rescuers could get to the body of a female wildlife reserve employee that the wolves had killed in their pen (1996—The Kingston Wig Standard, Ontario, Canada, April 20).
Trapper and Two Indians: An elderly trapper did not return to the post office as promised, so two Indians were sent to find him. All three were killed by wolves (1922— Port Arthur, Ontario newspaper, Dec. 27).
Negro Man: Two Negro men were attacked in Kentucky by wolves on the way home from visiting girlfriends. One survived by climbing a tree (1851—John James Audubon, “Black American Wolf” in Quadrupeds of North America).
Farmer and Son: A pack of wolves attacked and ate a farmer and his son (1888—The Saint Paul Daily Globe, March 8).
Eskimo Woman: She was strangled by a wolf as her husband rushed to her assistance (1829—John Richardson in “Fauna Boreali-Americana”).
Sick Indians: Not only did wolves come into the Indian camps and eat corpses dead of smallpox, but also attacked, killed, and ate the sick (1770—Peter Kalm in “Travels in North America”).
Injured: Several instances of nonfatal, but serious attacks in Canada and Alaska have appeared recently in the news: Algonquin Provincial Park, 1996; Yakutat, Alaska, 2000; Vargas Island, British Columbia, 2002 (The Wolf Society of Great Britain, www.myinternet.co.uk/wsgb/index.htm).
Rabies: Of course history is also full of accounts of rabid wolves killing humans, but advocates slip around these records by concentrating on “healthy” wolves. Since wild wolves can’t be vaccinated, why does it seem so comforting to think a wolf must be rabid to attack a human? By insisting the accounts be “documented,” scientists and advocates are also able to discredit hunters, Indians, Eskimos, and rural people who just “remember” but don’t write the story down or publish it.
Guns: Wolf attacks on humans seem to occur mostly in places where the general population is unarmed and/or where wolves are protected. The low number of recent historical encounters within the U.S. borders as compared to India, for instance, are probably due to the fact that during the period of America’s written history almost every citizen went about armed and seldom passed up a chance to shoot at a wolf. Protected animals lose their fear of humans.
Now that the wolves are on the ground, breeding like rabbits, depleting wild game and starting to get more serious about livestock, the public winds are about to change again. Plus, the U.S. government sure doesn’t want new trouble. Some history lessons maybe they remember!
Someone said FWS announced just five days earlier that they are turning the Mexican wolf recovery program over to Arizona Fish & Game. What a surprise! The same will soon happen in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. That way the states can be blamed and will have to deal with the public outcry as soon as the wolves are totally out of control. Next step? Call back the feds, of course, so they can play the cavalry riding in to save the day once again. We need some new movies.
http://www.rangemagazine.com/archives/stories/summer03/ground-hog.htm
Idaho had a few wolves around before the reintroduction of the Canadian wolves. They were hardly ever heard from or noticed. They were a smaller sub species and were relatively few in number. I hope a few of them survive. The "Reintroduced" Wolves will kill any of them they can catch.
Monday, July 23, 2007
Why Idaho?
Name: Joseph Glahn Born: 3/5/1829 Place: Prussia, Germany Citizenship: 6/29/1855 Place: St. Louis, Missouri Died: 5/1/1864 Place: Virginia City, Montana Married: 5/5/1860 Place: S. Kansas City, Missouri To: Susan Louisa Eisele
Joseph came to America sometime prior to 1850. It was his plan to return to the country of his origin, but was told he would have to join the German army if he did so. In a letter to his parents he stated that if this was so, then “the honored King may have my inheritance”. Joseph was given travel money by his parents, which was “enough to get me to St. Louis, but not enough to go completely around the world”.About 1850, he made his way to the gold fields of California where he apparently found enough gold “that now I don’t need to work for anyone else, and have enough to get by comfortably”. Apparently a brother accompanied Joseph to America. There is little information about him. Joseph at one time felt that his brother did not care about him any more; although Joseph had helped him all he could from the time he came to this country. There was also mention of a nephew of Boneparrt’s who returned to “the old country”. Joseph and his brother were apparently preceded to America by other relatives. A letter from Henry F. Glahn dated 1910, to Andrew M. Glahn states: “Several years after my parents came to this country, a Mr. Joseph and Boneparrt Glahn came to America, and they were either my fathers Nephews or Cousins, I cannot positively say. This Joseph Glahn worked with my father a few years at the Wagon trade, then they both went West”. (About 1890) “Boneparrt Glahn came to my house on a visit of about two weeks. He affirmed the report of Joseph’s death, stating that he was killed, and that he, Boneparrt, was anxious to know where Joseph’s children were”.Henry’s parents were Christian Glahn and Mary Antonia (Wand). Henry was born in Prussia, Germany in 1841. He and his parents came to America in 1843. Joseph, his bride, and his young son, Andrew, apparently went to Virginia City, Montana, where Joseph was killed May 1, 1864. How he was killed is not known at this time. It is safe to assume he was probably looking for gold, and his death may have been related. Family lore says he was bushwhacked.His wife, Susan Louisa (Eisele) was remarried to Richard M. Johnson on August 7, 1865.
Richard Johnson’s marriage to Susan Louisa (Eisele) (Glahn)Richard Martin Johnson was born in August of 1832 in Pennsylvania. He married Susan on August 7, 1865, just 15 months after the death of Susan’s first husband, Joseph Glahn.To this union were born six additional children, four girls and two boys. The first, Rosa, was born May 20, 1867, in Kelso Valley, Kern County, California. May 20, 1884, she was married to Charles Carothers, at Bellevue, Idaho. She died at Richland, Oregon on February 6, 1906.Richard Johnson was born December 9, 1870 at Havilah, Kern County, California. Ten months later, he died (10/27/1871), at Havilah, California.Daisy Johnson was born February 22, 1872 in Los Angeles, California. She was married to Wade Lane on August 17, 1891, in Boistfort, Washington. She died February 3, 1945, in Detroit, Michigan.Next was another son, Edgar Johnson, born February 4, 1877 on Bishop Creek, Inyo County, California. Edgar married Nettie Capron in Lewis County, Washington, in November of 1900. He died at Prineville, Oregon, August 7, 1940.Elma May Johnson was the next daughter. She was born May 6, 1878 on Bishop Creek, Inyo, California. She died on January 6, 1883 and was buried at Bellevue, Idaho.The youngest daughter, Maud Grace Johnson was born November 10, 1878, also at Bishop Creek, California. Maud married Ory Capron in Lewis County, Washington, on December 20, 1903, at the age of twenty-five years. She died November 26, 1973, and was buried at Boistfort, Washington.
Andrew Martin Glahn was the only son of Joseph Glahn and Susan Louisa Eisele. He was born at Westport, Missouri on October 24, 1861. When he was but two and a half years old, his father, Joseph was bushwhacked at Virginia City, Montana. After Joseph’s death, Andrew’s mother, Susan, remarried, and Andrew was raised with his half brothers and sisters. There seems to be no information regarding what age he was when he struck out on his own, but it appears he was in California with his new family until he came with them to Idaho, as evidenced by the death of his half sister, Elma May, in 1883. At some point in his travels, he was to meet his future bride, Mamie Hauk, who was born in Westport, Missouri. His trail is dimmed by time, until we find him September 12, 1898, in Quartzburg, Idaho, where he wrote to his future bride. “9 years is a long time to stay in one place. I could not sit down and figer up the diferant jobs and diferant places I have bin.” The letter stated that he was boarding at Six dollars per week, and that he had a single room, for which he was paying a dollar fifty per month. He was working in a mine, and was paid three dollars per day. “That is miners wages” He said he was working in the “Ioway” mine. “There is a tunnel on this mine that is 1,000 feet long. Then there is a station or room cut out in solid rock, and in that room, there is an engine for hoisting purposes. There is a shaft which goes down 112 feet, then there is a ‘drift’ run off 200 feet. From where I work to the surface is 650 feet.” Everything is pretty high here. Meals single or other than by the week are fifty cents. Beds are also fifty cents. Provisions can be gotten here cheap by ordering from Boise City. About the country, he ad the following to say: It is a beautiful country in summer. There is no healthier place in the world. It is a timbered country consisting of Fir, Spruce, and Pine. It is in a basin hemmed in by mountains. The snowfall is about four feet on the level in the winter. The mail is brought in by Stage in the summer time, and by Sleighs in the winter. It leaves Boise City in the morning and gets here in the evening. It is 55 miles to Boise City. Quartzburg is about 100 inhabitants. It is about one and a half miles to Garnet Town, about the size of this place. It is about three miles over to Placerville, which has about 400 inhabitants. Eight miles to Centerville, about the size of Placerville. 18 miles to Idaho City, the County seat of Boise County. It is about 18 miles to Garden Valley, a farming community, lying on the Payette River. Other places adjacent are Hogam, Sweet Jerusalem, and Horseshoe Bend. At Placerville they have put in a big dredge boat to work Placer ground. “I suppose it has cost over $100,000. At Centerville there is a large dredge boat being built. This machinery is to be run by electricity. There has been an electric plant built up on Moore’s creek this summer. This is an old country, but still in its infancy. This country has been mined since the 1860’s and many of the old log cabins that were put up in ’63 to ’65 are still standing. The country looks old and ancient, and the people are old and ancient, too. I never saw so many old Ivory-haired people in my life, from 65 to 95 years of age, and hale and hearty looking old people. The old gentleman that owns this mine where I am working is over 80 years old, and still he will get out and do a whole lot of work. I like this place, and it agrees with me. I weigh 170 pounds, and never felt better in my life. How would you like to give up city life for frontier life in Idaho?
Joseph came to America sometime prior to 1850. It was his plan to return to the country of his origin, but was told he would have to join the German army if he did so. In a letter to his parents he stated that if this was so, then “the honored King may have my inheritance”. Joseph was given travel money by his parents, which was “enough to get me to St. Louis, but not enough to go completely around the world”.About 1850, he made his way to the gold fields of California where he apparently found enough gold “that now I don’t need to work for anyone else, and have enough to get by comfortably”. Apparently a brother accompanied Joseph to America. There is little information about him. Joseph at one time felt that his brother did not care about him any more; although Joseph had helped him all he could from the time he came to this country. There was also mention of a nephew of Boneparrt’s who returned to “the old country”. Joseph and his brother were apparently preceded to America by other relatives. A letter from Henry F. Glahn dated 1910, to Andrew M. Glahn states: “Several years after my parents came to this country, a Mr. Joseph and Boneparrt Glahn came to America, and they were either my fathers Nephews or Cousins, I cannot positively say. This Joseph Glahn worked with my father a few years at the Wagon trade, then they both went West”. (About 1890) “Boneparrt Glahn came to my house on a visit of about two weeks. He affirmed the report of Joseph’s death, stating that he was killed, and that he, Boneparrt, was anxious to know where Joseph’s children were”.Henry’s parents were Christian Glahn and Mary Antonia (Wand). Henry was born in Prussia, Germany in 1841. He and his parents came to America in 1843. Joseph, his bride, and his young son, Andrew, apparently went to Virginia City, Montana, where Joseph was killed May 1, 1864. How he was killed is not known at this time. It is safe to assume he was probably looking for gold, and his death may have been related. Family lore says he was bushwhacked.His wife, Susan Louisa (Eisele) was remarried to Richard M. Johnson on August 7, 1865.
Richard Johnson’s marriage to Susan Louisa (Eisele) (Glahn)Richard Martin Johnson was born in August of 1832 in Pennsylvania. He married Susan on August 7, 1865, just 15 months after the death of Susan’s first husband, Joseph Glahn.To this union were born six additional children, four girls and two boys. The first, Rosa, was born May 20, 1867, in Kelso Valley, Kern County, California. May 20, 1884, she was married to Charles Carothers, at Bellevue, Idaho. She died at Richland, Oregon on February 6, 1906.Richard Johnson was born December 9, 1870 at Havilah, Kern County, California. Ten months later, he died (10/27/1871), at Havilah, California.Daisy Johnson was born February 22, 1872 in Los Angeles, California. She was married to Wade Lane on August 17, 1891, in Boistfort, Washington. She died February 3, 1945, in Detroit, Michigan.Next was another son, Edgar Johnson, born February 4, 1877 on Bishop Creek, Inyo County, California. Edgar married Nettie Capron in Lewis County, Washington, in November of 1900. He died at Prineville, Oregon, August 7, 1940.Elma May Johnson was the next daughter. She was born May 6, 1878 on Bishop Creek, Inyo, California. She died on January 6, 1883 and was buried at Bellevue, Idaho.The youngest daughter, Maud Grace Johnson was born November 10, 1878, also at Bishop Creek, California. Maud married Ory Capron in Lewis County, Washington, on December 20, 1903, at the age of twenty-five years. She died November 26, 1973, and was buried at Boistfort, Washington.
Andrew Martin Glahn was the only son of Joseph Glahn and Susan Louisa Eisele. He was born at Westport, Missouri on October 24, 1861. When he was but two and a half years old, his father, Joseph was bushwhacked at Virginia City, Montana. After Joseph’s death, Andrew’s mother, Susan, remarried, and Andrew was raised with his half brothers and sisters. There seems to be no information regarding what age he was when he struck out on his own, but it appears he was in California with his new family until he came with them to Idaho, as evidenced by the death of his half sister, Elma May, in 1883. At some point in his travels, he was to meet his future bride, Mamie Hauk, who was born in Westport, Missouri. His trail is dimmed by time, until we find him September 12, 1898, in Quartzburg, Idaho, where he wrote to his future bride. “9 years is a long time to stay in one place. I could not sit down and figer up the diferant jobs and diferant places I have bin.” The letter stated that he was boarding at Six dollars per week, and that he had a single room, for which he was paying a dollar fifty per month. He was working in a mine, and was paid three dollars per day. “That is miners wages” He said he was working in the “Ioway” mine. “There is a tunnel on this mine that is 1,000 feet long. Then there is a station or room cut out in solid rock, and in that room, there is an engine for hoisting purposes. There is a shaft which goes down 112 feet, then there is a ‘drift’ run off 200 feet. From where I work to the surface is 650 feet.” Everything is pretty high here. Meals single or other than by the week are fifty cents. Beds are also fifty cents. Provisions can be gotten here cheap by ordering from Boise City. About the country, he ad the following to say: It is a beautiful country in summer. There is no healthier place in the world. It is a timbered country consisting of Fir, Spruce, and Pine. It is in a basin hemmed in by mountains. The snowfall is about four feet on the level in the winter. The mail is brought in by Stage in the summer time, and by Sleighs in the winter. It leaves Boise City in the morning and gets here in the evening. It is 55 miles to Boise City. Quartzburg is about 100 inhabitants. It is about one and a half miles to Garnet Town, about the size of this place. It is about three miles over to Placerville, which has about 400 inhabitants. Eight miles to Centerville, about the size of Placerville. 18 miles to Idaho City, the County seat of Boise County. It is about 18 miles to Garden Valley, a farming community, lying on the Payette River. Other places adjacent are Hogam, Sweet Jerusalem, and Horseshoe Bend. At Placerville they have put in a big dredge boat to work Placer ground. “I suppose it has cost over $100,000. At Centerville there is a large dredge boat being built. This machinery is to be run by electricity. There has been an electric plant built up on Moore’s creek this summer. This is an old country, but still in its infancy. This country has been mined since the 1860’s and many of the old log cabins that were put up in ’63 to ’65 are still standing. The country looks old and ancient, and the people are old and ancient, too. I never saw so many old Ivory-haired people in my life, from 65 to 95 years of age, and hale and hearty looking old people. The old gentleman that owns this mine where I am working is over 80 years old, and still he will get out and do a whole lot of work. I like this place, and it agrees with me. I weigh 170 pounds, and never felt better in my life. How would you like to give up city life for frontier life in Idaho?
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