Chairman of the State Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission chair says Montana elk are 22,000 over state objectives-
Anti-wolf sentiment seems high in Montana, judging from the media, but mostly from the Republican Party. However, the chairman of Montana FWP Commission, Dr. Robert Ream, once a wolf researcher himself, told Bitterroot Valley residents that the [...]
Continue Reading →Findings contradict local views on the dire effect of wolves on elk calves-
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks and University of Montana have a 3-year study going to find out about elk and predator relations in the southern part (the “upper part”) of the Bitterroot Valley, Montana. By the time of the recently ended [...]
Continue Reading →Final figure to be about 163 166 wolves, 75% of quota-
Montana’s once extended, second wolf hunting season ends today. As of noon today, Feb. 15, 166 wolves had been reported killed in the hunt. Statewide this is about 75% of the quota set by Montana’s Fish, Wildlife and Parks commissioners. Three hunting units closed before [...]
Continue Reading →Senator Jeff Siddoway also pushes amendment to turn Land Owner Appreciation bill into a no access gravy train-
Idaho rancher and State Senator Jeff Siddoway has introduced a bill (S1305) in the Idaho statehouse that would authorize the slaughter of wolves involved in molesting or killing livestock by any number of creative ways.
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Continue Reading →Commission gives initial approval on divided vote, but final approval might fail-
Like the Lolo in Idaho on the Idaho/Montana border, the decline of elk in the West Fork of the Bitterroot area (hunting district 250) in Montana in recent years has been widely blamed on wolves, but the Montana wolf hunters can’t seem to [...]
Continue Reading →Video of an amazing number of elk captured by a cell phone-
We keep hearing how Idaho elk are all but extinct from anti-wolf folks and others with various gripes. Maybe this capture from the highway on a cell phone is the only herd left, but it certainly is impressive.
Folks who know southern Idaho [...]
Continue Reading →After 22 years as the chief biologist at the National Elk Refuge, Bruce Smith pens an easy-to-read, but stark warning about continuing elk feeding-
Prions are bit like tiny pieces of radioactive material in that they are very dangerous promoters of illness and for practical purposes never really go away, resting in the dust and [...]
Continue Reading →Poachers killed a big bull elk and also illegally transferred wolf tags-
Here is the outcome of the matter of the elk poaching Tasmanians in the Idaho wilderness. Many of the details came from an article by Australian reporter Paul Toohey for The Mercury.
The 3 men, Darren Tubb, 43, Anton Kapeller, 58, and Samuel [...]
Continue Reading →Wintering elk on Refuge to be reduced to 5000 to 7000-
Angus M. Thuermer Jr. of the Jackson Hole News and Guide has written another article on the problem of too many wintering elk in the vicinity of Jackson Hole — too many elk at the feedgrounds and national elk refuge to avoid a [...]
Continue Reading →Unlike deer and pronghorn, are elk trapped forever in the high mountain valley?
The big mountain valley of Jackson Hole, Wyoming is so high and cold that elk did not winter there before Euro-American settlement blocked the late fall migration routes out and settlers eventually began to feed elk at what became the National Elk [...]
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