Idaho’s Wolf Kill Bill S1305 Makes it out of Committee

By On February 22, 2012 · 3 Comments

I just got out of the Idaho Senate and Resources Committee meeting where they discussed S1305 which allows ranchers to kill wolves in many different ways. They voted to send the bill to the floor with a do pass recommendation. One interesting comment was made by Republican Senator Tippets who said that he had dinner [...]

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Reverb: Activists Take Over Oregon Cattleman’s Association Meeting and Call Attention to Anti-Wolf Legislation

By On February 22, 2012 · 42 Comments

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Activists Take Over OCA Meeting and Call Attention to Anti-Wolf Legislation

Corvallis, OR – On Friday, February 10th, activists from both Seattle and Portland Animal Defense League and Cascadia Earth First! infiltrated the spring board meeting of the Oregon Cattlemen’s Association to confront the group on its anti-wolf propaganda and recent [...]

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Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Threatens Bighorn Sheep Herd with Domestic Sheep Permit on ‘Heart of the Cascades’ Land Purchase

By On February 21, 2012 · 2 Comments

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife recently purchased private checkerboard land intermingled with Forest Service lands in the Rock Creek watershed north of Yakima. Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, The Nature Conservancy and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation combined forces and purchased 16 square miles of [...]

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The Story of Bella, a Husky Almost Killed by a USDA Wildlife Services Snare

By On February 21, 2012 · 23 Comments

Brooks Fahy, of Predator Defense in Eugene, Oregon, has put together an account of Robert Norie, the owner of Bella the husky, and the ordeal they went through after Bella was caught in an unmarked USDA Wildlife Services snare set for wolves in Idaho’s Boise National Forest in August 2010.

Wildlife Services has been [...]

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More on the plan in the Idaho legislature to auction the best big game tags

On February 21, 2012 By

Even the anti-wolf crowd have this plan to enrich big landowners figured out-

The outcry over the plan in the legislature to sell a number of big game tags to the highest bidder — to let landowners have a number of them and charge the highest prices they can get selling them privately, seems to [...]

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Obama’s Proposed 2013 Budget Raises Grazing Fee… a bit.

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Increased Fees to Graze On Public Land Still Doesn’t Cover Costs 

President Obama’s proposed 2013 budget for the Department of the Interior includes a tiny bit of good news for western public lands: a $1 increase in the fee charged for livestock grazing on Bureau of Land Management lands.

The fee, which is required of each public [...]

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Montana Declines to Extend Wolf Hunt

On February 16, 2012 By

The Montana FWP Commission has decided not to extend the wolf hunt in the Bitterroot area. While many claim that the elk declines seen there have been due to wolves but a recent study implicates cougars and a quick look at the historic numbers shows that poor hunting management has also contributed to the [...]

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Montana wolf hunting season ends today

On February 15, 2012 By

Final figure to be about 163 166 wolves, 75% of quota-

Montana’s once extended, second wolf hunting season ends today.  As of noon today, Feb. 15, 166 wolves had been reported killed in the hunt.  Statewide this is about 75% of the quota set by Montana’s Fish, Wildlife and Parks commissioners.  Three hunting units closed before [...]

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Growing problem in British Columbia and Alberta? Winter logging destroying grizzly dens with bears and cubs inside

On February 14, 2012 By

Is this a new problem or a sudden realization of an old one?

Whether it is or not, this issue is heating up in British Columbia and Alberta  The adult grizzlies are more likely to escape the wintertime dozers and other heavy equipment than the cubs, but the mortality rate of even adults is substantial. [...]

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“Grazing Must Yield” On Public Lands In Southwestern Idaho

On February 14, 2012 By

Federal Court Decision Holds That Protecting Sage-Grouse Must Take Priority Over Livestock Grazing in Owyhee Canyonlands and beyond in Southwest Idaho

Early last week the federal district court of Idaho affirmed Western Watersheds Project’s challenge to five Bureau of Land Management (BLM) grazing decisions in southwest Idaho’s Owyhee Canyonlands that harmed Greater sage-grouse.

Judge [...]

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‎"At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour."

~ Edward Abbey