March 2008
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Story in the Casper Star Tribune. End of the Trail. By Chris Merrill. – – – – — 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 not say…
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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…
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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, it…
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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. So…
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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…
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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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First, the Las Vegas Review Journal. OHV misuse criticized in U.S. House .Off-road fans, critics face off: Even riders see damages left by few. House panel told public lands overrun by ORVs. Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT). “. . . the 300 arrests and 37 injuries at a gathering of 1,000 ORV users at…
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The killing of the Buffalo Ridge Pack in Idaho prompted an inquiry bringing forth some interesting information about the cost of wolf control. The information is in a letter by Gloria Carlton in the most recent Idaho Mountain Express. I wonder what the dollar loss of livestock to the rancher (said to be Wayne Baker)…