From the daily archives: Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Have you come across interesting wildlife news? Jan.23, 2013 edition

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Here is our second edition of interesting wildlife news for the year 2013. Please post your wildlife news stories and your comments in the open thread below. 

You can access the previous edition (Jan. 13, 2013) of “Interesting Wildlife News” here.

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Forest Service calls off Bridger-Teton merger with Caribou-Targhee National Forest

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Controversial proposal rejected on Jan. 22 by Forest Service-

In a news release the Jackson Hole Alliance celebrated the end of the proposal to combine national forests in Idaho and Wyoming that include some of the West’s best wildlife and scenery.  There is still on the table, however, the idea that perhaps the headquarters (the […]

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Legislative effort in Montana to repeal all free roaming bison protection

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HB249 would allow Montana landowners to kill bison for any reason-

2012, and it looks like 2013, is shaping up to be another year of livestock interests trying to repeal a generation or two of progress in the management of wildlife.

Alan Doane,  a Montana Republican legislator, has a bill that would allow landowners to […]

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‎"At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour."

~ Edward Abbey