One of Alaska’s most treasured bear-viewing sites is about to be turned into a destination theme park, sacrificing grizzly bear habitat on the altar of commercial development. After a decade […]
Tell Congress: Back Off Legislation Using Sage Grouse to Transfer Public Lands
Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT) and Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID) have introduced legislation that is an extreme and irresponsible attack on your public lands and the wildlife they support. This […]
Livestock production does not benefit sage grouse
A recent modeling study that looked at livestock grazing and sage grouse has been getting a lot of play in the media with headlines like “Livestock Grazing Can Benefit Sage […]
Let’ s end Wildlife Service’s Poisons
Pocatello, Idaho. Last week 14-year-old Canyon Mansfield watched his yellow lab Casey die from the effects of an explosive cyanide device set out by the federal government agency named Wildlife […]
Catastrophic logging threatens national forests
National Forests across the West are facing dire threats from politicians, the timber industry and the Forest Service. The public is currently being misled into thinking that our forests are […]
Do you have some interesting wildlife news? March 22, 2017 edition
It is time to create a new page of “Interesting Wildlife News.” It has been a long time since we have had a new page. The page and comment loading […]
Pet-killing “Cyanide Bomb” Placed Illegally by Wildlife Services
For Immediate Release March 21, 2017 Contact: Erik Molvar, Western Watersheds Project, (307) 399-7910, emolvar@westernwatersheds.org Brooks Fahy, Predator Defense, (541) 520-6003, brooks@predatordefense.org Talasi Brooks, Advocates for the West, (208) 342-7024 x208, tbrooks@advocateswest.org Pet-killing […]
USDA Wildlife Services M-44 Cyanide Device Sprays Boy and Kills Family Dog
USDA Wildlife Services issued a statement that doesn’t acknowledge that a child was injured. The East Idaho News is reporting that a boy and a 3-year-old lab encountered an M-44 […]