Divide develops over dam. A proposed $431 million dam and reservoir project north of Fort Collins riles those who see it as a disastrous strangling of the picturesque Cache la Poudre River. By Michael Booth. The Denver Post.
The dam is said to be justified by projected growth of new homes. Instead it is […]
Continue Reading →Bighorns facing smaller habitat. San Diego Union Tribune
Continue Reading →This is not an overview of all of Wyoming, or even NW Wyoming. It’s a story mostly about the country southwest of Jackson Hole — the Fall Creek elk herd. Ironically, this herd is in the area where all wolves can be killed by anyone at will beginning March 28.
Continue Reading →There will not be a lawsuit filed to stop delisting on March 28. Plaintiffs will wait (will have to wait) until April 28. They might seek an injunction, however, if one or more of the states uses the period to kill a lot of wolves.
I would urge everyone to be vigilant, especially in Wyoming.
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Continue Reading →Story in the Casper Star Tribune. End of the Trail. By Chris Merrill.
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Related. Rocky Barker’s blog, “Letters from the West,” has a story about Jemenez coupled with discussion that wolves were moving southward into Idaho and NW Montana prior to the wolf reintroduction. Note that Barker does […]
Continue Reading →The delisting of the wolf is scheduled to go into effect March28. The boundaries of the delisted zone are “generous,” wiping out federal protection in Eastern Oregon, Eastern Washington and Northern Utah as well as Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.
A radio-collared wolf from Idaho’s Timberline pack dispersed into the NE Oregon Wallowas last winter. This […]
Continue Reading →Since ’01, Guarding Species Is Harder. Endangered Listings Drop Under Bush. By Juliet Eilperin. Washington Post Staff Writer.
The Bush Administration has not taken the initiative to list a single species. Two have gone extinct waiting during its “watch.” As far as not having enough resources to do the job or handle the petitions, […]
Continue Reading →Anger Over Culling of Yellowstone’s Bison. By Jim Robbins. New York Times.
Finally, coverage of the bison slaughter by the national media — the New York Times.
Governor Schweitzer says Republican Montana US Representative went out of his way to kill the congressional appropriation to buy up cattle grazing on CUT’s Royal Teton Ranch. […]
Continue Reading →For deep inlanders, steelhead are sea-run rainbow trout — big anadromous fish like salmon. Unlike salmon, steelhead don’t spawn and die, but return to the ocean (although in reality few fish survive to run and spawn a second time). Steelhead lose the characteristic red band (the rainbow) that freshwater rainbow trout have.
Idaho’s steelhead runs […]
Continue Reading →Ray Liable is a wildlife watcher and great photographer who lives not far from me in Pocatello. I run into him yesterday, and he told me of his photo page.
He really has some fine photos, including ones this January of the Druid pups. His page also has lots of earlier wolf photos.
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