What a difference a state can make- When you leave Idaho for Oregon, it seems like more Idaho for a long distance. The same is true to a lesser extent […]
Someone is poisoning dogs in the Wood River Valley (updated 9/29)
Someone is using the artificial sweetener, xylitol, to presumably poison wolves in the Wood River Valley. It is unclear whether any wolves or other canines have been poisoned but one […]
Famous lone wolf OR7 is being satellite tracked again
His disappearance prompted worry that something had happened to him- Legend has it that lone wolves don’t live long if they remain mateless. However, the Associated Press reports that wolf […]
SMART RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND THE LORAX
I am the Lorax, I speak for the trees. It seems more and more there are fewer conservation organizations who speak for the forest, and more that speak for the […]
Wildfires break out in many parts of Washington State
The late wildfire season moves to the Pacific Northwest- This year’s great Western wildfire season began in Arizona and New Mexico with huge fires in May and June. These are […]
Another Island Park grizzly-claiming-a-shot-elk incident (update)
Grizzly bear was wounded by bullets. How badly? For the second time this month a grizzly bear and hunters have had a confrontation over an elk shot in the Idaho […]
Wedge wolf pack will be killed because of its increasing beef consumption (Update 9/25 – 28)
Washington border wolf pack clearly has become beef eaters- The controversy over the Wedge wolf pack began in a muddle — what is really going on? Now, however, it is […]
Judge in Montana tells Feds to make a decision on ESA protection for wolverine
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service can’t let the rare carnivore just languish as a candidate endangered species- Dana Christensen, a Montana federal district court judge has denied the United States […]