Regional Web Cams

By On November 28, 2015 · Leave a Comment · In Wildlife News

We have made links to web cams in Idaho, Western Montana and Western Wyoming-.

Alpine, ID/WY web cam. Located on the Idaho-Wyoming border looking east to the mouth of the Snake River Canyon.

Big Piney, WY air quality cam. Near Big Piney looking ENE across the desert to the Wind River […]

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Wolf Killer Should Be Charged with Animal Cruelty

By On June 26, 2019 · 24 Comments · In Wildlife News

Co-authored by Jessica Johnson, chief legislative officer, Animal Protection of New Mexico; and Greta Anderson, deputy director, Western Watersheds Project

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Last year, the American public learned about the brutal killing of an endangered Mexican gray wolf—identified as Mexican wolf number #1385 of the Willow Springs pack, and named “Mia Tuk” by […]

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The highest use of public forests: carbon storage

By On June 19, 2019 · 3 Comments · In Wildlife News

With the ravages created by the climate emergency including flooding in the Midwest, wildfires in the West, cities going underwater on the coast of Florida, and extreme heat, we might begin to look at our public lands as carbon storage sites.

One of the misconceptions guiding public forest policy is the assumption that logging/thinning can […]

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Impacts of Mountain Biking

By On June 18, 2019 · 35 Comments · In Elk, Forest Service, Grizzly Bears, Montana, Oregon, Public Land Management, Public Lands, Utah, Wilderness/Roadless, Wildlife

Mountain Biking is a significant threat to our wildlands—both in designated preserves like national parks, wilderness areas, and the like, but also Wilderness Study Areas (WSA) and roadless lands that may potentially be given Congressional protection under the 1964 Wilderness Act.

Wilderness designation is one of the best ways to protect biodiversity, watersheds, wildlife […]

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Juniper, Wildfire and Climate Change

By On May 31, 2019 · 5 Comments · In B.L.M., Climate Change, Oregon, Wildfire

The recent article on juniper mortality in central Oregon demonstrates how most forestry professors have little ecological understanding of ecosystem processes nor even the latest ecological science. https://www.registerguard.com/news/20190530/fire-suppression-drought-increasing-mortality-among-central-oregon-trees

In the RG article,  an Oregon State University forestry professor suggests a lack of low severity fires is contributing to overly dense juniper stands which […]

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Bison: Still Not Back From The Brink (Reposted from Mountain Journal)

On May 29, 2019 By

THE RESCUE OF AMERICA’S NATIONAL LAND MAMMAL IS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE GREATEST CONSERVATION SUCCESS STORIES EVER AND YET IT’S HARD TO FIND MANY WILD HERDS ON THE MAP by Jim Bailey 

During the 20th century, Montana took pride in bringing several species of large mammals, especially big game, back from the brink of extinction. […]

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Undue political influence on grazing decisions in eastern Oregon.

On May 28, 2019 By

Western Watersheds Project (the organization that I am the Executive Director of), WildEarth Guardians and the Center for Biological Diversity are fighting the reinstatement of grazing on four allotments in eastern Oregon that are permitted to Hammond Ranches. In part, we argue that the Hammonds don’t have a great track record and are thus undeserving […]

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Lessons From Yellowstone

On May 25, 2019 By

As we ponder the future of public lands in Montana, including what areas deserve protection as Wilderness, it is worthwhile to look back in history to see how past protective measures were viewed.

In 1872 with the establishment of Yellowstone National Park many Montana citizens were outraged. For example, the Helena Gazette opined: “We […]

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Griz Expert Says ‘Mountain Bikes Are A Grave Threat To Bears’

On May 22, 2019 By

WHEN IT COMES TO SAFEGUARDING BEARS, SCIENTISTS SAY WILDERNESS-CALIBER LANDS, FREE OF RIDERS, ARE IMPORTANT TO BRUIN PERSISTENCE

Reposted from Mountain Journal with permission of the author, Todd Wilkinson (click at original link for photos)

— Does mountain biking impact wildlife, any more than hikers and horseback riders do? More specifically: could rapidly-growing […]

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Potential For Wolf Restoration In Oregon

On May 22, 2019 By

I wrote this review of the potential for wolf restoration in Oregon back in 1998. It is interesting to see that many of the predictions I made have materialized.

Author: George Wuerthner

ABSTRACT: Wolves (Canis lupus) were native to Oregon, and reported from throughout the state. Like much of the West, wolves were persecuted and […]

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Governor Bullock’s Forest Council Biased Towards Timber Industry

On May 21, 2019 By

Governor Bullock recently created the Montana Forest Action Advisory Council that is biased towards logging and is dominated by timber industry interests and supporters to “reduce wildfire risk.”

I don’t expect the Governor to be an expert on wildfire or forest ecology, but it is clear from the makeup of his council that its […]

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‎"At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour."

~ Edward Abbey