This is a moderately good overview of the general wolf situation and history of wolves in Montana from the 1980s.
Wolf shot; animal had killed cattle. By Michael Jamison of the Missoulian.
On the other hand, whoever wrote the headline for Jamison’s story and the first three paragraphs (they are in boldface) was generally […]
Continue Reading →Video of the condition of Current Creek in the Owyhee.
Continue Reading →This guy set out an illegal poison for skunks and raccons. Coyotes ate the poisoned skunks and raccoons and died. Eagles ate the dead coyotes and died.
It was kind of like 1920.
He was fined for the value of the eagles; nothing about the use of an illegal poison.
Continue Reading →This proposal for yet another dam on the Bear River stirred up unpreceded opposition in southeast Idaho.
Utility rescinds plans to build dam for southeast Idaho. Times News
Continue Reading →Wyoming’s new US senator John Barrasso has picked up one of the priorities of the late Sen. Craig Thomas, R-Wyo.
It would stop oil and gas leasing in all of the 100 mile long Wyoming Range and buy back those leases already issued.
Senaror Barrasso brings bill to protect Wyoming Range. By Noelle Straub. […]
Continue Reading →California fires get caught up in global warming debate. By Rocky Barker. The same scientist who attributes the back-to-back big fire seasons in Idaho and the Northern Rockies as signs of human-induced climate change says the fires in California are not.
Continue Reading →Wolf hunt is part of the package for Montana delisting. Opinion. Daily InterLake
Montana FWP is planning a wolf hunt after delisting, as the opinion happily indicates.
However, FWP has invited wolf conservation groups for their views along with other groups. That is very unlike Idaho.
I also get the impression that a first […]
Continue Reading →California’s age of megafires. Drought, housing expansion, and oversupply of tinder make for bigger, hotter fires. By Daniel B. Wood. Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
Many factors behind the current California wildlfires are similar to those last summer in Idaho and Montana, except, of course, the sprawl into the “fire plain” is […]
Continue Reading →CDV is passed through close contact from domestic and feral dogs causing epidemics that often result in mass mortalities – and is pushing some species to the brink of extinction.
Rest of the story. How Canine Distemper Virus Jumps Across Species. Science Daily.
Continue Reading →Federal wildlife agents killed 1.6 million animals in ’06. By Matthew Brown. Associated Press.
The federal agency Wildlife Services “serviced” 1.6 million animals last year. Numerically most of them were birds, but a lot of them were animals that many, perhaps most Americans, would rather not see killed to fatten the bottom line for […]
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