Mollies Pack has killed the well known alpha pair of the Hayden Valley Pack.
I don’t have the details as to how it happened yet, but the Hayden Pack was being increasingly pressed by the larger Gibbon Pack from the SW and west and Mollies Pack from the SE.
Remaining, but with their fate not […]
Continue Reading →While it’s too soon to blame this on state management, the first year of state-run Greater Yellowstone grizzly management has seen too many deaths of grizzly sows, a very important parameter in keeping the delisted bear population from a relisting.
Story in the Jackson Hole News and Guide. Grizzly sow deaths close to upper […]
Continue Reading →Today’s blog by Rocky Barker in the Idaho Statesman. Is it a bear or Bigfoot?
It is about an odd photo from Pennsylvania, said to be a “bigfoot.” Yet bigfoot has been called a creature (real or not) of the Pacific Northwest.
Interest the Sasquatch is on the rise, and a biologist at Idaho […]
Continue Reading →Those who commented on Wyoming’s wolf plan didn’t like it.
The analysis of the comments has been released. Whether they lived in Wyoming or elsewhere, a majority was against it. Inside Wyoming, those inside and outside Teton County (Jackson) opposed it.
Opposition was greater from those who did not live in Wyoming. Inside Wyoming, opposition […]
Continue Reading →Here is the info on when the two documentaries we have been discussing will appear on television.
I want to thank skyrim for gathering it. He emailed the following to me:
Excerpt from the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. . .
http://bozemandailychronicle.com/articles/2007/10/19/news/30movie.txt
“Wolves in Paradise” will be aired […]
Continue Reading →The Missoulian has this: Brucellosis plan divides state’s cattle groups. The Montana Stockgrowers Association and the Montana Cattlemen’s Association are split on Schweitzer’s thoughts of breaking the Yellowstone region from the rest of the state with regard to brucellosis-free status. Brucellosis has been used to stir up the annual slaughter of Yellowstone’s wild buffalo […]
Continue Reading →Large feedlots, a.k.a. CAFOs, have become the bane of southern Idaho, polluting the water (as told by this story) and the air. . . . hold your nose as you travel about 150 miles of Interstate 80 across southern Idaho.
Feedlot agrees to pay fine to settle Clean Water Act violations. Idaho Statesman.
Oh, […]
Continue Reading →Paradise Valley, Montana, that is.
Story: By Martin J. Kidston. Helena Independent Record
Continue Reading →The Dallas News doesn’t like the idea. Keep Mountains Public. Dallas News.
Neither does the San Antonio Express. Christmas Mountains sale should be delayed.
Proponents of the sale have drummed up a phony Second Amendment argument to justify not selling the mountains to the National Park Service to add to Big Bend National […]
Continue Reading →The U.S. House of Representative may be close to passing long overdue reforms to the 1872 mining law. Many in the Boise, Idaho area [Treasure Valley] are hoping for changes that will stop the proposed pit mines Canadian mining companies want to excavate upstream at Atlanta, Idaho and other places in the central Idaho mountains.
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