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B-T Forest renews elk feedground while admitting it will spread brucellosis, parasites and chronic wasting disease-
Acting Bridger-Teton National Forest supervisor Kathryn Conant is going to renew the special use permit for Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s Alkali Creek winter elk feedlot which is up the Gros Ventre River, sandwiched between the gravel road and […]
Continue Reading →More Buffalo Shipped to Slaughter Leaving Stephens Creek Bison Trap Empty.
Death Count Passes 400-
News Release
Contact:
Stephany Seay, Buffalo Field Campaign, 406-646-0071, bfc-media@wildrockies.org
Mike Mease, Buffalo Field Campaign, 406-646-0071, mease@wildrockies.org
Yellowstone National Park, Gardiner Basin, Montana. Buffalo Field Campaign (BFC) patrols reported this […]
Continue Reading →Second rupture under Yellowstone River in four years makes Keystone look more ominous-
There has been a massive rupture of the Poplar oil pipeline under the Yellowstone River near Glendive, Montana. This is about a hundred miles upstream from the North Dakota border and the Yellowstone’s confluence with the Missouri River.
The pipeline lay buried […]
Continue Reading →Press release
Contact:
Stephany Seay, Buffalo Field Campaign, 406-640-0109, bfc-media@wildrockies.org
Yellowstone National Park. Gardiner Basin, MT. Since Wednesday an estimated 200 of America’s last wild, migratory buffalo have been crammed into tribal stock trailers at Yellowstone National Park’s Stephens Creek bison trap. The bison have been […]
Continue Reading →They were “ugly . . . slimy . . . creepy.” Idaho state rep. Ken Andrus-
Disappointment came this week to Ilah Hickman, an 8th-grade student in Boise, when for the fifth time, the Idaho Legislature refused to name a state amphibian.
Hickman was championing a species of large salamander, the Idaho Giant Salamander, as […]
Continue Reading →Wyoming Wildlife Advocates issues report with q. and a.-
The usual winter feeding of elk on the National Elk Refuge at Jackson, Wyoming, is just starting now. Every year they try to hold off, and once and a while it is deemed not to have been needed.
The elk get alfalfa pellets, although elk on […]
Continue Reading →Yes, it looks like pneumonia. It usually is.
It comes from domestic sheep most of the time.
On December 15, Ken Cole reported in the News, “Bighorn Sheep Near the North Entrance of Yellowstone National Park are Dying from Pneumonia.”
Well, it continues. Now Brett French reports in the Missoulian […]
Continue Reading →“The Great Republican Land Heist: Cliven Bundy and the politicians who want to plunder the West”
Christopher Ketcham details the rancher/Republican grab for our outdoor heritage-
Cristopher Ketcham has been writing about the Western public lands now for a couple years. He is in the mold of Bernard DeVoto who wrote the influential column, […]
Continue Reading →It is time for another new page for wildlife news. Please use “comment” at the bottom to post your news. Do not post entire articles unless you have our permission, or post copyrighted materials unless you own the copyright. Here is the link to the most recent (Dec. 19) […]
Continue Reading →Twenty Year Anniversary of Wolf Restoration Gray Wolves Returned January 12, 1995-
Twenty years! January 12, 2015, marks the 20-year anniversary of the return of gray wolves to their rightful place and vital role in the Northern Rockies ecosystem!On that fateful date in 1995, eight wolves from Alberta, Canada, arrived in Yellowstone National Park. They […]
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