Actually what happened was the House Natural Resources Committee, now under new management 🙂 held a hearing on the transformation of the West’s economics and society, and balancing that with conserving the beauty and resources.
The most notable thing was those who were invited to testify — no oil company lobbyists and land developers like […]
Continue Reading →Spread Creek rises east of Jackson Hole and flow into the Park. It is terrible fishing because it was degraded by a dam to divert waters to Elk Ranch Reservoir for irrigating hayfields for CATTLE inside Grand Teton National Park.
The lower reaches of Spread Creek are lousy for fish, but the country around it […]
Continue Reading →In the second year of a project called “sadly misconceived” by conservationists, 173 elk were trapped at Muddy Creek feedground near Pinedale. 79 of the elk were adult females.
13 of the 79 tested seropositive for brucellosis and were slaughtered. “Seropositive” means the elk had antibodies — they had been exposed to brucellosis. A […]
At Potamogeton Park, Madison Range, Montana. Gallatin National Forest. Photo by Ralph Maughan
I believe that spending as much of your life as possible defending the Western lands, water, air and wildlife is an act of pure virtue.Your actions needs no other justification, but make sure you get plenty of time out […]
Continue Reading →This should be so obvious, but I has finally dawned on me that many elk hunters think that those who have supported the wolf restoration, hate elk, or at best are indifferent to elk.
Because wolves eat elk, deer, moose, etc. it should be obvious that wolf supporters have a great interest in the health […]
Continue Reading →Now that Dale Bosworth is a free man, but no longer a person with authority as when he was Bush’s Chief of the U.S. Forest Service, he tells us that he basically supported President’s Clinton’s national forest roadless area protection role, not Bush’s.
I can only hope he did his best to sabotage the Bush […]
Continue Reading →Bison on elk refuge top 1,000 animals. Jackson Hole News and Guide.
The bison growth is really out of hand with them having access to all this artificial winter feed. They will destroy the summer range of Jackson Hole. It looks like the growth rate remains about 100 a year despite the bison hunt […]
Continue Reading →This story is from the carnivore conservation blog. It seems like shooting animals in an enclosure and calling it “hunting” is a growing problem all over the world, with ethically challenged entrepreneurs in South Africa just like in Idaho. Fortunately, people are taking action against this practice.
South Africa bans hunting caged lions. Carnivore […]
Continue Reading →Alberta is an oil and gas development basket case. Wyoming is heading that way quickly. Will Montana soon follow?
Story about Montana’s growing oil and gas damage in the Bozeman Chronicle. By Scott McMillian
Continue Reading →A ten year old female mountain lion was recently accidentally trapped in North Dakota. The mountain lion is now making a comeback in the state, and she might have played a very large role.
. . . More on the story. The cougar was trapped in a bobcat snare. […]
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