The Upper Green River Valley and Wind River Range from the Elk Ridge grazing complex in the Gros Ventre Range. Photo George Wuerthner.
In a breach of trust and faith, the Bridger Teton National Forest (BTNF) proposes to stock 30,577 acres with cattle in the Elk Ridge area of the Gros Ventre […]
Continue Reading →If 53 are now trapped in “The Hole,” how many will survive?
The Jackson Hole News and Guide has reported that 53 pronghorn antelope have been spotted on the National Elk Refuge well after the herd normally migrates out of cold and snowy Jackson Hole, over […]
Continue Reading →This is one of a number of crossing overpasses that have gone up-
Building overpasses over busy highways in notable spots where animals cross make a lot of sense in terms of safety of people and the animals. We have seen several near Wells, Nevada and reported on them. Now one is nearing completion over […]
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 →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 →Presence of wolves helps survival of pronghorn fawn, normally a major prey item for coyotes-
Wolves have a complicated relationship to their prey and to competing carnivores and omnivores such as bears. Simple statements such as every animal a wolf kills is one less for a hunter are fantasy. In reality wolves can directly or […]
Continue Reading →Bridger-Teton National Forest sued for failure to analyze new projects blocking the path of the pronghorn-
According to the Western Watersheds Project, the Bridger-Teton N.F. was talking up a good story how they were going the protect the “path of the pronghorn” which runs from the Wyoming desert, where they winter, northward to Jackson Hole […]
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 […]
Continue Reading →This year of no spring delayed migration from Wyoming’s high desert for weeks-
The famed Jackson Hole pronghorn herd which winters in the high desert 150 miles to the south has been beleaguered by natural gas development and subdivsions. In recent years, Wyoming Game and Fish and numerous other interests have worked to keep millenia-old […]
Continue Reading →The never-ending winter in the Northern Rockies hits deer, elk, moose, pronghorn hard-
During the winter, I made a number of posts about the hard conditions for ungulates in the Northern Rockies. The failure of spring to arrive is causing deaths to continue and grow.
Record wildlife die-offs reported in Northern Rockies. Reuters. By […]
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