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Many hunter organizations like to promote the idea that hunters were the first and most important conservation advocates. They rest on their laurels of early hunter/wildlife activist like Teddy Roosevelt, and George Bird Grinnell who, among other things, were founding members of the Boone and Crocket Club. But in addition to being hunter advocates, these [...]
Continue Reading →Today the US Fish and Wildlife Service released the Peer Review of the proposed rule to delist wolves nationwide and its findings were pretty damning. The proposed rule relied heavily on the findings of one paper, Chambers et al., which reclassified wolves and recognized the eastern wolf as a new species [...]
Continue Reading →The House Resources and Conservation Committee will hold a hearing on the introduction of legislation that will establish the “Wolf Control Board” proposed by Governor Otter in his State of the State Address. The hearing will be held in room EW40 of the State Capitol building in Boise. You can listen live to it here: Continue Reading →
Deep within the Senate version of the “Farm Bill” there is hidden a section that provides $35,000,000 to vaccinate wildlife, primarily elk and bison in the Greater Yellowstone Area (see pages 1127-1130 of S.954). Section 12101, titled “Wildlife Reservoir Zoonotic Disease Initiative” would amend another law to provide, for 5 years, $7 million in funding annually to address [...]
Continue Reading →The Idaho Department of Fish and Game is using a new definition for “breeding pair” that differs from the definition used in the USFWS delisting rule of 2009. This definition is important because it is the primary marker used to determine whether wolves should remain delisted from protections of the Endangered Species Act [...]
Continue Reading →Rule amendments vague and unnecessary. Would result in killing of non-offending wildlife-
Last week, more than a million Americans registered their opposition to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) proposed plan to remove Endangered Species Act protections from gray wolves in most of the lower-48 states. This was the largest number of comments [...]
Continue Reading →Today, as we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act, the nation is taking notice of how Idaho is managing wolves just two years after they were stripped of the protection of the Endangered Species Act by the U.S. Congress. This weekend anti-wolf forces are having a highly controversial 2-day wolf and coyote [...]
Continue Reading →In June of 2013, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) proposed removing federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) protection for the gray wolf (Canis lupus, Linnaeus) throughout most of the lower 48 U.S. states, with the exception of the Mexican wolf subspecies (C.l. baileyi) (78 Fed. Reg. 35,664). In an article accepted for publication [...]
Continue Reading →The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is taking comments on the proposed listing of the Distinct Population Segment (DPS) of Arctic grayling (Thymallus arcticus) under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Following the status review, the Service will either publish a proposed rule to protect the Arctic grayling under the ESA, or a withdrawal from candidate [...]
Continue Reading →For Immediate Release, September 23, 2013
Contact:Tierra Curry, Center for Biological Diversity, (928) 522-3681
Kylie Paul, Defenders of Wildlife, (406) 370-6979
Gary Macfarlane, Friends of the Clearwater, (208) 882-9755
Travis Bruner, Western Watersheds Project (208) 788-2290
Endangered Species Act Protection Sought for Northern Rockies Fisher
Rare Forest Carnivore Threatened [...]
Continue Reading →2013-2014 Wolf Slaughter
Idaho Hunting 169 Idaho Trapping 78 Idaho Illegal 9 Idaho Control-IDFG 16 Idaho Control-WS 73 Idaho IDFG-authorized 3 Idaho Legal take 3 Idaho Unknown 5 Idaho Vehicle 3 Montana Hunting 138 Montana Trapping 73 Montana "other" 94 Wyoming Hunting 63 Wyoming "other" 25 Wisconsin 257 Minnesota 237 Michigan 23 TOTAL 1269 View Spreadsheet
