“Having the Department of Livestock manage wildlife is a direct conflict of interest.”
Here is the Bozeman newspaper’s take on the hearing to make bison “wildlife” in Montana. Note they have the bill number wrong. It is HB253, not 243.
Montana FWP did not support the bill.
Continue Reading →There is going to be a big fight over this rapidly growing development as its external costs become more widely known-
Environmentalists setting up anti-oilsands training camp in Calgary. By Kelly Cryderman, Canwest News Service
For more information, here is the blog “Oil Sands Watch.” It has interesting information like “Oil Sands […]
Continue Reading →Major volcano close to Anchorage and Seward could have major wildlife and economic impacts-
Alaskans brace for Redoubt Volcano eruption. By Dan Joling. AP
Continue Reading →Great news! Will it pan out?
Fish and Game forecasting the largest salmon returns in years. In other news, F&G will issue fewer moose tags and mountain goat permits in 2009 and 2010. By Roger Phillips. Idaho Statesman.
More money and more political battling have been used to restore salmon (and steelhead) than any […]
Continue Reading →Not a bad year for grizzlies in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem, unlike the Greater Yellowstone-
Thirteen grizzlies were known to have died, eleven were human caused. Is it significant that the grizzly in the NCDE is still listed as a “threatened species” and the Greater Yellowstone population has been delisted?
Graphical display of […]
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