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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 →Hypothesis points to how profound indirect effects of human caused ecological changes can be-
For a generation now lake trout (mackinaw) have greatly reduced the formerly hugely abundant Yellowstone cutthroat trout in Yellowstone Lake and in its tributary streams. This decline was made worse by the emergence of whirling disease, a parasite carried by people [...]
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 →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 →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 elk archery hunt. Unlike the last incident where the bear bit a hunter and ran off, this time the hunters apparently fired numerous bullets [...]
Continue Reading →A classic kind of grizzly/hunter interaction near Island Park, Idaho-
About a week ago, a lucky (or unlucky?) hunter survived a bite from a grizzly that had taken the hunter’s elk. A Michigan archery hunter and his friend who had hunted the area numerous times before wounded a bull elk about 15 miles west of [...]
Continue Reading →Wyoming Game and Fish Department offers extra elk licenses-
Now that Wyoming has gained the authority to manage wolves and will soon have a wolf hunt, the much lamented lack of elk due to those “insatiable packs of killing machines” — wolves — has suddenly turned around and there are said to be too many [...]
Continue Reading →Record fawn population lifts the total near to a record of 400-
It’s common to hear a small noisy segment of the citizenry complain how the elk population is down in the southern Yellowstone Park area.
In addition, climate change has slashed moose population in and around Jackson Hole, but there is good news about [...]
Continue Reading →David Stalling worked for Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation for a number of years. For 10 years he was conservation editor of Bugle, their magazine. He was also President for two terms of the Montana Wildlife Federation and presently is a grassroots organizer for Trout Unlimited.
In view of the current controversy over the family of [...]
Continue Reading →Famous family of conservationists says change policy or give up the Olaus Murie Award-
Olaus Murie is often called the “father of modern elk management.” His seminal scientific study of elk and many other kinds of wildlife such as caribou, which he learned about for 6 years in the field with has brother Adolf, was coupled with [...]
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