Many folks will like to read this, find a lot of good information and see how thoroughly political, rather than scientific the plan is. There is great information placing wolf caused livestock mortality into context with other kinds of losses.
The due date for comments was Dec. 31, 2007.
This is an 8 page pdf […]
Continue Reading →Idaho elk, deer survival rate high despite growing wolf population. By Rocky Barker. Idaho Statesman.
The survival rate for radio collared deer and elk females was over 85% and it increased in 2007 over 2006 despite the growing wolf population.
Update:
The same piece, with some editing and anecdote the day after.
SW Montana cattle ranch protected from subdivision. By Nick Gevock. Montana Standard
Continue Reading →Plum Creek timber is the largest private landholder in Montana, and now since timbering no longer pays as much as remote subdivisions do, they are planning, asking and building a lot of them. Many are located in expensive-to-service, forest fire prone country. Most county commissions seem to think that they have to let developers do […]
Continue Reading →Kathie Lynch has another of her great northern range wolf reports. This one focuses on the fast approaching mating season, a time of year when new bonds are temporarily, and sometimes permanently formed, and as it has been discovered in recent genetic research on the Yellowstone wolves, there is much outbreeding from many packs (and […]
Continue Reading →The Wood River Valley is a long, many-forked drainage that rises in southern central Idaho mountains and flows southward across the Snake River Plain into the Snake River.
It drains a large area of very scenic backcountry, mountainous frontcountry, and contains the towns of Hailey, Ketchum, Bellevue and Sun Valley, giving the area a much […]
Continue Reading →Finally an essay how Montana and Wyoming’s brucellosis policy tramples on private property rights. By Glenn Hockett. Billings Gazette. Guest Opinion: Public, private property lost to brucellosis policy.
He also points out the continuing frenzy over brucellosis amidst the lackadaisical approach to other livestock diseases.
Continue Reading →The story in the Jackson Hole News and Guide says “hunting regulations,” but they didn’t in fact set hunting regulations.
Wyoming drafts wolf hunting regulations. By Cory Hatch.
Continue Reading →Western Watersheds Project sues Bighorn National Forest on grazing. By Tom Morton. Casper Star Tribune.
Continue Reading →Department of Natural Resources says only one wolf shot during deer hunt. By Robert Imrie. Associated Press writer in the Appleton Post-Crescent.
It wasn’t even a wolf; it was a hybrid.
It is true the wolves are much better accepted in the Great Lakes States than in Idaho, Montana or Wyoming.
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