Note: A number of updates have been added to this story as other news media picked this up. Lots of egg on the BLMs face! RM For these scroll to […]
Northern Idaho’s tiny woodland caribou herd gets federal proposal for large critical habitat
U.S./B.C. herd of 50 to finally get critical habitat- Woodland caribou, far more rare than the well known barren ground caribou, have kept a tiny toehold in the United States […]
Millions of Bird Deaths in Nevada
Over my years of traipsing around public lands in the West I have come across hundreds of uncapped 3-foot tall PVC pipes sticking out of the ground. For a long […]
How many cattle in Idaho are rustled?
How many “predator killed” cattle were actually stolen? We all know the story — the “horrible wolves killed the cattle. They were so hungry that not even a piece of […]
Not enough wolves killed in Montana hunting season; extension of season likely
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks wants to extend wolf hunt another month, to end of January 2012- Montana FWP choose a quota of 220 dead wolves statewide (with the various […]
California energy company does right thing for birds and abandons plans for wind farm
Pattern Energy Group will not build 2000 acre wind farm near Sacramento- Plans for a 2000 acre (3 1/2 square mile) wind farm NW of Sacramento have been scrapped because […]
Grizzly Bears Maintain Endangered Species Act Protections
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals overturns the delisting of Grizzly Bears The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld in part, and overturned in part, a Montana federal district court’s […]
Livestock Industry Plans to Ask Idaho Legislature to pay for Wildlife Services Predator Killing
In Idaho Wildlife Services has historically received most of its funding from the federal government but this year those funds were cut by $247,000. To make up for the shortfall […]