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Fatal ungulate disease advances as Wyoming game managers continue on in denial-
Our recent story on chronic wasting disease (CWD) in Wisconsin now has a followup in the treasured Greater Yellowstone country. In both places, wildlife managers and politicians continue to take a heedless attitude [...]
Continue Reading →Gov Walker, deer czar Kroll, some hunting groups become passive over brain rotting disease-
It’s aim for the lowest common denominator in management of Wisconsin’s huge whitetail population. The incidence of chronic wasting disease (CWD), the prion-based malady that turns deer (and elk and moose) brains into sponges has gone from a half per cent [...]
Continue Reading →Could no hunting zone of the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) could prove haven for Idaho’s persecuted wolves?
The vast (900 sq mil), sprawling INL has many nuclear reactors, but there is also a lot of open space where hunting and livestock grazing are not allowed. Therefore, it is hardly a surprise that some of Idaho’s [...]
Continue Reading →After years of talk, action-
The Wildlife News, like other local and even national media, has reported frequently about the beauty and the threat to the lengthy biannual pronghorn migration route from Jackson Hole to the Wyoming high desert and back.
It’s not like nothing was done to conserve this threatened spectacle, it’s that nothing [...]
Continue Reading →Republican Hill sees wildlife in terms of hunting; Democrat Bullock takes a more expansive view of the value of wildlife-
The view of governors on wildlife makes a big difference because wildlife management is the province of the states except for endangered species and some marine mammals.
Montana’s Democrat and current attorney general Steve Bullock [...]
Continue Reading →Small canine predator chows down on white footed mice-
People have sometimes blamed white-tailed deer as a factor spreading this growing menace, but a new study “Deer, predators, and the emergence of Lyme disease” hypothesizes through modeling and correlation analysis that the ecology of small mammal predators plays a key role in controlling or facilitating [...]
Continue Reading →Man who hates public land and public wildlife gains heavy influence on Wisconsin deer management-
A last minute controversy in the unpleasant battle in Wisconsin whether to remove governor Scott Walker from office is the revelation that he has hired Dr. James Kroll, who embodies the Texas tradition that hunting should be on game farms [...]
Continue Reading →Acorns, mice and the climate pushing debilitating infection into Canada-
Ten or so years ago we were writing about brucellosis in the forerunner to this newspaper. Later when anti-wolf activists tried to scare people about worm infections we examined that issue and found there was little to worry about. In following these political disease controversies, [...]
Continue Reading → White-tailed deer overpopulation boost cases due to more deer ticks-
Lyme Disease is a real threat to those who go outdoors, unlike the recent hysteria over the rarely transmitted dog tapeworm larva (Echinococcus granulosus) to humans. In 2010 there were over 30,000 reported cases in the U.S. of often debilitating Lyme disease. It is [...]
Continue Reading →More than 90 percent white-tail deer suddenly dead along a 100-mile stretch of the Milk River-
Carried by biting midges, EHD kills within a couple days. This epidemic began in late summer. The organism also kills Mule deer, bighorn sheep, elk and pronghorn. White-tailed deer are hit the worst, however. Local outfitters and officials says it [...]
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