June 9, 2008
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Pup counts are coming in from Yellowstone Park, but slowly because of the long cold wet season. I thought perhaps 2008 might be another pup crash year because the Slough Creek Pack had a number of apparently pregnant females yet has only one surviving pup. Moreover no pups have been seen yet with the Druids.…
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News release from Yellowstone Park. Yellowstone Road Crews Struggle with Late Season Snow Storms. Doug Smith told me today that he had never seen so much water in the Park’s backcountry. The Yellowstone Delta’s den site, which is in the River delta, is basically a swim-to den, and would be flooded with any more rise…
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This story made some news in Montana. It was discussed briefly in this forum (no post, however). No doubt it will enter anti-wolf legends library. Here is the standard story by the outdoors editor of the Billings Gazette. Truly a blast from the wolf past By Mark Henckel. Billings Gazette. Brian Peck, however, did some…
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Rescue may be on the way to the threatened wild country just north of the U.S. border in British Columbia. It depends on the outcome of the U.S. election. Some folks on this forum, including myself, have complained about the failure by the candidates to talk about specific conservation issues. Obama’s positiion was announced when…
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The train route through the Park is the major killer, but hardly the only human source of mortality. Story. Grizzly bear decline blamed on humans. Trains top killers in Banff, Jasper parks, says report. Cathy Ellis, The Calgary Herald