December 2010
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Comments wanted on the Park’s Native Fish Conservation Plan Environmental Assessment- The Park’s fish have taken a real beating the last 20 years from disease and the introduction of lake trout into Yellowstone Lake. Your comments are due Jan. 31, 2011. “The preferred alternative would conserve the Yellowstone cutthroat trout in Yellowstone Lake by increased…
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Last ditch location of polar bears is predicted- As arctic ice continues to melt, scientists have predicted where last few polar bears will make their last stand. Where Polar Bears Might Go If Climate Change Doesn’t Slow. By Pete Spotts. Christian Science Monitor/ABC News
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The LA Times weighs in on western politicians’ effort to deslist Northern Rocky Mountain Wolves by way of legislation: Rocky Mountain Low – LA Times Opinion Editorial The actions of three states and a handful of congressmen seem likely to undermine the return of the gray wolves of the northern Rockies. Even worse, they would set…
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This is not the first land protection buy-up in the Rockies by the Swiss billionaire- This purchase seems to be a very good thing for conservation of the Montana landscape, but I’d bet this post will stir up a lot of debate about billionaires buying land (or maybe just about billionaires and why there are…
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Former gubernatorial candidate Rex Rammel, currently under investigation for poaching elk, told a group of Idaho residents that citizens should organize wolf killing parties and that he didn’t think the authorities would intervene. Not so says the feds: Feds plan action if Idaho wolves killed illegally – AP
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Father and son arrested for poaching two large 6-point elk- Almost twice a week there is a story about major elk poaching in Idaho, often involving important people. There is so much of this we have to question the real reason why elk numbers are below objective in a half dozen Idaho hunting areas. Caldwell…
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Fair and balanced! Their Washington Bureau news chief emailed them saying, “refrain from asserting that the planet has warmed (or cooled) in any given period without IMMEDIATELY pointing out that such theories are based upon data that critics have called into question.” Apparently they would be expected to say “some scientists say there was an…
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Living black kokanee found . . . enough for a recovery- Scientist says he found Japanese fish thought extinct. Associated Press. The fish were found in Lake Saiko, about 500 kilometers south of their native lake where they were killed off in the 1940s.