For quite some time news of wolves moving into Washington state has excited many wolf supporters and Washington residents. A couple photos of the Washington wolves.
As is usually the case, news of Washington wolves has also prompted local ranchers’ to kick up controversy and concern that their livelihood won’t be able to […]
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Yellowstone Bison
Update from the Field
May 28, 2009
In this issue:
* Update from the Field
* Help BFC Help the Buffalo
* Ground the DOL’s Helicopter: Contact the FAA
* Traditional Prayer Ceremony on Horse Butte May 31
* Support the […]
One, possibly more, bighorn sheep to be killed.
Update 5/31/09: It gets worse. Sick, wandering bighorn trailed near Salmon River. Idaho Statesman.
A bighorn sheep ram has interacted with domestic sheep on private property upriver from Riggins, Idaho and is reported to be sick. It is now […]
Continue Reading →I was blessed with the opportunity to take a flight with LightHawk this morning. Man, what a great group.
It was a clear and smooth flight over central Idaho ranges with watersheds in full expression of spring.
Time to open the forum up … I hope you’ll contribute.
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Continue Reading →How could this happen?
You don’t try to hit the bear/wolf, whatever. Did the shell not explode and the bear ate it? !
Bear killed after hazing effort. By the Associated Press
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Continue Reading →New state law on bighorn undermines the working group process, tribe says-
This is good news about the sorry situation. Everyone should quit this group set up to make it appear that the Otter Administration gives a damn about bighorn.
Bad news!
And on top of this a bighorn mixed with domestic sheep (on private […]
Continue Reading →Obama begins to put his imprint on the much litigated “roadless rule”-
Bill Schneider at New West has followed the long battle of what was originally Bill Clinton’s roadless rule for the national forests. Today the Obama Administration made its first move.
Schneider tells the story in New West.
Vilsack Takes Over Roadless […]
Continue Reading →The President visited projects done the right way-
These projects were near a load center and built on degraded land. I wonder if he thinks this is the way most Nevada projects will be, or whether he simply did a cynical PR ploy?
Obama said. “We’ll invest in the development and deployment of solar […]
Continue Reading →Deer and bighorn are down too. Pronghorn and elk doing well-
Recently we ran the story how well Wyoming’s supposedly beleaguered elk population was doing. Every herd in the state was above Fish and Game objectives.
It’s a different story for moose, which are only at 44% of objective. We ran a story […]
Continue Reading →Sierra Club and others file lawsuit-
The recent designation of more critical habitat for the recovery of the lynx was another response to Julie MacDonald’s political meddling during the Bush Administration.
The major remaining point of contention is the desired addition of Colorado where a state-funded lynx […]
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