Frank Robbins isn’t just any rancher. He moved to Wyoming from the South and purchased a large ranch north of Thermopolis. There has been controversy ever since. His lawsuit against BLM employees as individuals, rather than as agents of the government, was unprecedented. A different outcome would have made the BLM an even weaker agency […]
Continue Reading →The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) got 100,000 public comments on their plan to guide oil and gas development in the upper Green River Basin. This is a wildlife rich and highly scenic area. People care about it in Wyoming and outside as well.
Story. Most favor conservation for Pinedale management area. By […]
Continue Reading →The Uhl Hill fire inside Grand Teton National Park is burning near where the Teton wolf pack of days gone by used to den.
Meanwhile, outside Grand Teton, the Horse Creek fire in the Wyoming Range has grown from 800 to 1200 acres. The Nylander Creek Fire, south of the Horse Creek Fire, is 100 […]
Continue Reading →This lawsuit is over sheep grazing in the Centennial Mountains to the west of Yellowstone. The range forms the Idaho/Montana border.
-News Release-
Conservationists File Suit Over Illegal Sheep Grazing in Yellowstone Area
Groups Seek to Protect Bighorn Sheep and Other Endangered Species
SILVER CITY, N.M.— Two conservation groups sued the […]
Continue Reading →This is a guest editorial in the Montana Standard written by Derek Goldman and Chris Marchion. It was not written by “staff.”
More on Big Hole River grayling. Montana Standard.
Continue Reading →As I sit and write this in Pocatello, Idaho, the high smoke passing overhead (from the Cow Canyon fire) heralds an early beginning of the summer wildfire season, but Cow Canyon is hardly the only fire.
Headwaters News today has a “roundup” on the fires. The most damaging one is near Lake Tahoe and […]
Continue Reading →Maybe the continuation of the incredible monetary subsidy per snowmobiler at the Park’s East Entrance during the winter will in fact be cut off. The NPS regional director is supporting Yellowstone superintendent Suzanne Lewis and the Park’s plan to close this little-used, avalanche prone pass.
Story. Park boss: Sylvan Pass danger palpable. By Ruffin […]
Continue Reading →Ex-Marine Kills 300-Pound Bear With Log. The Incident Is the Latest in a String of Bear Attacks. ABC News
This was in Georgia . . . another 300 pound black bear. This story as written is a little bit contradictory because the article says the bear turned on his son, but at the bottom […]
Continue Reading →I have had some queries about the condition of Alan Gregory.
His blog has been updated by his spouse, Monica. Reading it makes me think he will not be resuming his blog in the near future. I’m sure we are all very sorry to hear of this. Alan Gregory’s Conservation News.
Continue Reading →Kathie Lynch has sent a report for June 17-23, 2007. It follows. Thanks Kathie!
There is not too much to report from Yellowstone right now as the wolf watching has been pretty quiet. We see the occasional Agate Creek adult traveling by in their traditional Antelope Creek den area. And, we have occasional Slough Creek […]
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