Buffalo Horn drainage
The Gallatin Range that lies south of Bozeman, Montana is the largest unprotected wildlands in the northern Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE). The Gallatin Range is highly scenic with glaciated cirques, grassy meadows, and subalpine lakes.
Biologically it is one of the more diverse […]
Continue Reading →2015 mortality figure casts a dark shadow on wisdom of delisting-
Early 2016 is expected to be the time when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service once again proposes delisting the grizzly bear in the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem (GYE) in Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana. Back in 2007 the Yellowstone grizzly was actually delisted, but a federal district […]
Continue Reading →GYE estimated grizzly population down by 43 bears, 6%, since 2015 say gov’t wildlife biologists
At the Jackson, Wyoming meeting of the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee’s Yellowstone Ecosystem Subcommittee (IGBC/YES), a population figure of 714 grizzlies was announced yesterday. In 2014 the number was 757. The latter is a figure close to the estimate of 750 […]
Continue Reading →How much longer before the feedlots are hit?
Nightmare “mad elk” or “mad deer” disease, the always lethal malady spread by prions (infectious proteins), keeps creeping ever closer the the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem in Wyoming and to the massive elk winter feedlots. In these, it is expected to spread like wildfire in cheatgrass.
According to […]
Continue Reading →Phosphate mining, its jobs, and its environmental impact are big things in SE Idaho-
A lot of the folks I talked with today spontaneously and favorably brought up this article by Marv Hoyt, Idaho Representative for the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. It appeared in the Pocatello, Idaho newspaper. March 24, 2010.
Continue Reading →Meeting on how to respond to the relisting of Yellowstone area griz set for Oct. 28-9-
Hopefully they will do more than complain and say the judge was wrong.
Continue Reading →Very important. You can comment until August 12-
Send your comments to Attn: Wildlife
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks
POB 200701
Helena MT 59620-0701
fwpwld@mt.gov
This MOU paves the way for sport hunting of grizzly bears in this large delisted population. This splits the “discretionary” mortality (surplus) bears between the […]
Continue Reading →So, we’re back to an old controversy; what is the true population and its trend?
Greater Yellowstone grizzly debate heats up. By Chris Merrill. Casper Star Tribune.
I know Dave Moody (trophy game coordinator for the Wyoming Game and Fish Department) couldn’t possibly be right about the poor whiteback pine nut crop being part […]
Continue Reading →Hunter shoots a Montana grizzly sow, charging to protect cub. Her death one too many for the year-
The other day I predicted that the mortality limit for the year would be passed. It was unfortunately an easy prediction. About 10% of the grizzly population has died or been killed this year. If this happens […]
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