By Halina Szyposzynski
The military has its “five-o’clock follies.” The Mexican Wolf Adaptive Management Work Group (MWAMWG) has its “quarterly quirks.” Items from the January 27th meeting:
· After receiving complaints from Greenlee County residents, wolf managers are removing […]
Continue Reading →Here is another great victory for the Clinton rule protecting all national forest roadless areas.
A federal judge in Northern California issued a final injunction Tuesday that protects 52 million acres nationwide from a repeal of the 2001 Clinton roadless rule. U.S. District Judge Elizabeth D. Laporte included language in her decision preventing roads and […]
Continue Reading →Yellowstone Park Superintendent Suzanne Lewis is reportedly very happy about the unexpected increase in the proposed budget. Maybe there are no strings attached, but I’m still looking for the privatization angle — will result be “Yellowstone brought to you by Haliburton?”
Park officials thrilled about Bush’s proposed budget. By Mike Stark. Billings Gazette.
Bills raise debate on game damage to private land. Hearings scheduled next week in Helena. By Brett French. Billings Gazette Outdoor Writer.
Here is another example of why wolves are constantly used to divert sportsmen — so they don’t pay attention to things like this. The situation is kind of hard to explain if […]
Continue Reading →The details of Bush’s proposed budget are becoming clear, and like the old saying “a skunk can’t change its stripes,” it’s the same as it has been for 7 years.
Continue Reading →By Jean Ossorio.
The alpha male of the San Mateo pack–one of the handful of breeding pairs (six or seven, depending on how you interpret the definition in the Final Rule) at the end of 2006–has been slapped with a removal order by the USFWS for a third livestock depredation within 365 days. The rest […]
Continue Reading →A bill in the Idaho Legislature would reduce the recent $26.50 per wolf tag set by the Fish and Game Commission to $9.75. My guess that will have no effect on the number of wolves killed, but is another signal to the outside world the Idaho legislators don’t like wolves. A co-sponsor of the bill […]
Continue Reading →A lot of folks in Idaho wonder what they study at the U.S. Sheep Experiment Station near Dubois, Idaho.
Pretty interesting stuff! A bare majority of domestic rams are heterosexual. Read the story in Slate Magazine.
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