Last Friday WWP won a reversal of a previous court decision that would have held that Presidents have the authority to designate – but not direct management of – national monuments.
Preservation and the President: A Positive Development in the Sonoran Desert – Ti Hays, PreservationNation
Last Friday, in a positive development, a federal […]
Continue Reading →Why the National Fire Plan is a Trojan Horse for Logging
Earlier Ralph noted a new study that suggests fire mitigation work in the US may be misplaced. Along those same lines, George Wuerther shares an account of one experience he had digging deeper into the rationale & motive of some “fuels reduction” […]
Continue Reading →Samples taken from killed bighorn sheep will be tested at center embroiled in controversy.
From an Idaho Fish and Game press release dated June 15 comes information that samples from the bighorn sheep killed last week will be tested at the Caine Veterinary Teaching and Research Center in Caldwell, Idaho. The Center’s director, Dr. […]
Continue Reading →Is the move out of the mountains due to the long winter and wet spring?
We’ve been talking about grizzly south of Interstate 90 in Idaho, but a more obvious movement is the presence of two or more grizzly bears out on the plains, well east of the Rocky Mountain front.
Russian and Chinese demand pushes up pelt prices for this medium sized wildcat’s hide-
While there seem to be a lot of bobcats in the United States, the population size is pretty much a guess. Most of the concern over trapping increase is in the Western states. Bobcat fur coats raise trapping concern in […]
Continue Reading →What will this mean with 4 domestic sheep bands scheduled to turn out on top of the Phantom’s home range in the next week ?
Idaho’s Phantom Hill Wolf Pack has lost its alpha male, B333. He was hit by a vehicle north of Ketchum over the weekend and was found dead by Ketchum resident […]
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