The Wildlife News

February 2008

  • Rocky Barker: Wolf battle heats up in the next few weeks

    Ralph Maughan

    Wolf battle heats up in the next few weeks. This is Rocky’s blog today in the Idaho Statesman. It summarizes the legal situation.

  • Montana approves wolf hunting season

    Ralph Maughan

    This was expected, and it isn’t really the news. Story in the Casper Star Tribune. Montana approves wolf hunting season. By Eve Byron. Lee News Service The news is that Montana rejected things like trapping wolves (a grave danger to grizzly bears and dogs) and the use of artificial lures, baits, scents, electronic calls, aerial…

  • HJR002: amending Idaho constitution to make hunting preferred means of wildlife management

    Brian Ertz

    It appears that the Big-Game interests are pushing hard in Idaho. House Joint Resolution No.2 (HJR002) would amend the state constitution to : provide that the people have the right to hunt, fish, trap and harvest wild game Fair enough, I mean, it’s not like the state doesn’t already exercise this ‘right’ as it is.…

  • Western wolf delisting looms

    Ralph Maughan

    This article says it may be Feb. 28, but I just heard it will be tomorrow. Story in the Idaho Mountain Express. I see what might appear to be two rival strategies emerging among conservation groups to deal with delisting. In fact, I think this might be a good idea even though it will leave…

  • Some Yellowstone Park wolf news

    Ralph Maughan

    Although I expect Kathie Lynch may soon have a detailed report, I got information about a few items today. The Bechler Pack of SW Yellowstone (the only pack down there) was finally seen. It had eleven members and was several miles south of the Park near the Idaho/Wyoming border. While they will go back to…

  • EPA slams new plan for gas field near Pinedale, WY

    Ralph Maughan

    Wow, if Bush’s EPA doesn’t like it, it must have a really terrible environmental impact. EPA slams new plan for Sublette gas field. Watchdog agency rips BLM proposal, says past study underestimated pollution by factor of 5. By Cory Hatch, Jackson Hole News and Guide “The EPA letter comes in response to the Bureau of…

  • Settlement Reached in Lawsuit Challenging Illegal Sheep Grazing in Yellowstone Ecosystem

    Ralph Maughan

    For years the U.S. Sheep Experimental Station, headquartered at Dubois, Idaho (not Dubois, Wyoming) has been grazing sheep in the top of the Centennial Mountains and elsewhere in the general area, and with no environmental analysis. After yet another successful lawsuit by Western Watersheds and the Center for Biological Diversity, represented by Advocates for the…

  • Tiger Breeder looks at Eastern Idaho for his facility

    Ralph Maughan

    There are elk farms, and now a tiger breeder wants to build a facility in Eastern Idaho. Unlike elk, to which Idaho’s Department of Agriculture hands out permits like politicians hand out brochures, the Dept. is fighting this and the proponent fighting the denial of a permit in court. Tiger breeder eyes Idaho. Jackson Hole…

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