BLM Abuse of its Public Trust Duty – Conservationists Win Duck Creek Case

By On May 23, 2013 · 6 Comments · In B.L.M., Cattle, Grazing and Livestock, Public Lands

Western Watersheds Project and Wild Utah Project had a significant win this week on the Duck Creek allotment of Utah.  In the longest running administrative grazing appeal hearing in the history of the Department of the Interior, including 12 weeks of hearings and a record of 15,000 pages, WWP demonstrated that [...]

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Wildlife Services maybe to get more money to deal with feral swine

By On May 23, 2013 · 5 Comments · In Invasive Species

More dollars to deal with these destructive invasives might get into federal budget-

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) gives the good news that federal appropriations might go up this year for feral hog control despite sequesters, debt limit confrontations, austerity programs, etc.

USDA-Wildlife Services, an agency which most conservationists have a low opinion, would [...]

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Conservation scientists oppose efforts to remove federal protections for wolves across the lower 48 states

By On May 21, 2013 · 62 Comments · In Delisting, Endangered Species Act, Politics, Wildlife, Wolves

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell received two letters today from conservation scientists criticizing a draft Rule that would remove protections for wolves across the lower 48 states. One letter came from the American Society of Mammalogists, the other from 16 conservation scientists.  Signatories include several scientists who conducted the research the government relied upon [...]

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US Fish and Wildlife Service sued by Western Watersheds over the legal implication of grizzly bear disappearance

By On May 21, 2013 · 6 Comments · In Bighorn Sheep, Disease, Idaho, Montana, Public Lands, Wildlife Disease

USFWS called “wrong” to say no grizzlies had been killed on Sheep Experiment Station on Idaho/Montana border, Continental Divide Area

Boise, ID.  On May 17, 2013 the Western Watersheds Project, Cottonwood Environmental Law Center, Native Ecosystems Council and Yellowstone Buffalo Foundation filed a suit in federal district court to challenge domestic sheep grazing that has been [...]

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Worry over dead bison found north of Yellowstone Park

On May 19, 2013 By

Montana is said to be investigating-

Gardiner, MT. Given the frequent stories of wildlife killing and hate that emanate from the Gardiner, Montana area, the latest find of 2 to 4 bison carcasses north of Yellowstone Park is raising worry about more illegal and legal wildlife killing in the area and/or the spread of domestic or wildlife [...]

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Do you have some interesting wildlife news? May 18, 2013 edition

On May 18, 2013 By

It is time for a new “wildlife news” thread.

Please put  your news, links and comments below in comments.  Here is the link to the thread being retired (May 1, 2013).

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Chronic Wasting Disease closes in on Yellowstone

On May 17, 2013 By

Fatal ungulate disease advances as Wyoming game managers continue on in denial-

Our recent story on chronic wasting disease (CWD) in Wisconsin now has a followup in the treasured Greater Yellowstone country. In both places, wildlife managers and politicians continue to take a heedless attitude [...]

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The invasion of Yellowstone Lake by Lake Trout blamed for decline in Yellowstone’s elk

On May 15, 2013 By

Hypothesis points to how profound indirect effects of human caused ecological changes can be-

For a generation now lake trout (mackinaw) have greatly reduced the formerly hugely abundant Yellowstone cutthroat trout in Yellowstone Lake and in its tributary streams. This decline was made worse by the emergence of whirling disease, a parasite carried by people [...]

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AP breaks story that Obama Administration won’t prosecute wind farm eagle deaths

On May 14, 2013 By

News on wind and solar farms keeps getting worse-

It doesn’t have to be that solar and wind power alternative energy has to be hard on people and animals. However, the way they are being rolled out is damaging.

For example, the SW desert solar farms seem to be spreading the debilitating fungal disease, coccidioidomycosis [...]

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Alberta Fish and Wildlife has success helicoptering road kill to hungry grizzly bears in the springtime

On May 10, 2013 By

Will this program stem the decline of grizzlies in SW Alberta?

Grizzlies are on the decline in Alberta. The province has far fewer bears than adjacent British Columbia and even fewer than the state of Montana to its south.

Resource development such as tar sands, natural gas exploration and development all along the Rocky Mountain [...]

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A Big Bonehead

(Cartoon by: Matt Wuerker | Date: May. 24, 2012)

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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