Blaming wolves for poor elk management? The US Fish and Wildlife Service has issued an Environmental Assessment for Montana Fish Wildlife and Park’s wolf reduction proposal for the Bitterroot hunting […]
Buffalo Field Campaign: On-the-ground activism
Here are a couple of articles about the Buffalo Field Campaign and how they, and other groups are funded. Contrary to popular belief BFC’s top paid people don’t make much […]
Oil industry demand for more drilling permits to lower oil prices is phoney
The argument that more drilling, fewer regulations will bring down oil price spikes is a tired old story- The oil industry recycles it for every international crisis, nevertheless; and the […]
Montana Wildlife Federation is going to sue over the oil megaloads
Idaho landowners and conservationists to get help from Montana allies- National Wildlife Federation Prepared to Sue Montana Over Mega-loads. By George Prentice. Boise Weekly. Exxon is now getting ready to […]
Have you come across any interesting Wildlife News? March 28, 2011
Note that this replaces the 26th edition. That edition will now move slowly into the depths of the blog. Please don’t post entire articles here, just the link, title and […]
Dozens protest wolves outside Missoula court hearing
Numbers were a big anti-wolf disappointment- Disappointing small number of anti-wolf protesters show up at Molloy hearing. Missoulian. By Ken Briggeman.
Poll Finds Strong Public Support for Bison Restoration in Montana
In February the National Wildlife Federation conducted a poll of 400 Montana voters and found that they are strongly in support of bison recovery in Montana. Particularly, 70% say they […]
Judge asked to lift federal protections on wolves
Judge Molloy will rule “soon” on whether to accept the settlement. As described in the Missoulian article, there are three ways this could go. One, he could say that the […]