November 2007
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Yesterday it was announced that one of Idaho’s most famous fishing streams, Silver Creek, had high levels of mercury contamination in its fish. This is a real shocker because Silver Creek is a spring fed creek, indicating to me that the mercury blowing up from Nevada’s gold pits into Idaho (and over to Utah) might…
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YNP WOLF Field Notes, Nov. 10-12, 2007. Copyright Kathie Lynch. “Quite a day!” is the only way to describe Saturday, Nov. 10, 2007—the day the Druid Peak pack took back Lamar Valley! Almost four years after the reign of the Druids started to unravel with the deaths of the great alphas 21M and 42F, the…
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Lion pounces on hunter. By Jim Mann. Daily Inter Lake. Backpack saves man from more serious injuries. This is said to be the first mountain lion attack in many years in Montana.
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Winds whip Montana wildfire into a November inferno. By Lance Benzel of the Billings Gazette. The fire is north of Big Timber, burning on the plains in grass, juniper, and pine. Update Nov. 14, 2007. Wind-whipped Chichi fire leaves erratic trail of destruction. By Mike Stark and Linda Halstead-Acharfy. Billings Gazette. It burned 30,000 acres,…
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~I think this is the most important wolf story in quite a while~ – – – – – Perhaps the greatest success story in terms of numbers is the recovery of the wolf in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Recovery began, however, before genetic analysis had advanced. Far more is known today, and the recovered wolf…
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Earlier I linked to the WWP blog story “Bighorn Sheep Threaten Western Way of Life?” Now the Boise Weekly has reprinted an article from High Country News giving more background into the controversy that led to the successful lawsuit this spring that kept the Payette National Forest from ignoring its court ordered duty to keep…
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For the last 3 years the floor of much of the Yellowstone caldera has been rising at 3 inches a year, much faster than previous uplifts. In the past, of course, the uplift has always stopped and then fallen. This time will probably be the same. There have been many versions of the story the…
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Story by John Cramer. Missoulian. One of keys to restoring the elk population in the upper Clearwater may be removing unneeded and “bleeding” logging roads than killing native bears, cougar and wolves.