A small part of a herd of 300 or so elk on Ayers Meadow in the Frank Church Wilderness in July, Central Idaho. This has always been great elk country, but several years ago cattle grazing in the drainage was bought out, so now these public lands have more elk than ever. Idaho –mule and […]
Continue Reading →This is a good column (published in New West). It doesn’t give any side of the issue a free pass, and is one of the first I have seen that looks carefully at Governor Freudenthal’s contradictory statements about wolves and big game.
Freudenthal’s fundamental view of wolves: “This raises the interesting question of whether any […]
Continue Reading →This is from the Idaho Mountain Express. Hunting season specifics will not be nailed down for several months. By Steve Benson.
There is also a LTE by Lynne Stone in this issue of the Mountain Express. “Get Wolf Facts Straight.”
Continue Reading →Legislators may tinker with elk ranching laws. By Roger Phillips.
I was talking with a leader in a major sportsman organization the other night. He said the Idaho legislature was likely to do nothing of importance to restore fair chase hunting in Idaho, and he was talking ballot initiative to solve the problem the […]
Continue Reading →The country’s most influential newspaper has weighed in on the mixed message of the wolf delisting. Mixed News for Wolves
Continue Reading →The Democrats have held their first of undoubtedly many oversight hearings on how the Bush Administration is, well, administering the laws. This is a basic role of Congress that was suppressed during the last 6 years of Republican congressional rule (the minority party in Congress can’t call hearings). Story in New York Times (you […]
Continue Reading →Technically there aren’t any wolves in Utah, although there really are probably a few in northern Utah. Nevertheless, Northern Utah was included in the Northern Rockies wolf delisting.
So was Eastern Oregon and Eastern Washington. All these places would highly likely to see wolf in-migration.
I can see only one reason for this — it’s […]
Continue Reading →Story in the Caspter Star Tribune by Whitney Royster.
Note that “altering elk hunting” is not the same as reducing the number of elk. This article takes pains to stress that.
A lot of the complaint from some elk hunters is that they have to adapt to new conditions, and learning new techniques of […]
Continue Reading →Plan to delist wolves still faces obstacles. Legal challenges could delay federal proposalto give control to Idaho and Montana by year’s end. By Rocky Barker – Idaho Statesman.
Here the story as told by Idaho’s largest newspaper
Continue Reading →Wisconsin Ag News Headlines. Rural Groups React Positively to Removing Wolf Protections
What an informative article. It says “rural groups” and then speaks of the Safari Club and the Bear Association. Only the Wisconsin Cattlemen’s Association seems rural to me. It tells us that the wolf herd in Wisconsin is 500 animals. Wolf […]
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