The Wildlife News

October 2, 2009

  • Idaho again wants to land choppers in wilderness

    Ken Cole

    Landing helicopters in wilderness violates the Wilderness Act This article contains more information about something I posted a while back. I don’t think the rational behind this plan is to kill wolves inside the wilderness but rather to document the minimum number of 150 wolves the state thinks is required so that they can kill…

  • Charges in grizzly bear death near Ditch Creek (WY)

    Ralph Maughan

    Although this has been discussed in comments on other threads, here is the news story- Charges in grizzly bear death near Ditch Creek. By Cory Hatch, Jackson Hole Daily. This bear might have been the cub (now a sub-adult) of locally famous grizzly bear 399. Although this story has already been discussed in some comments,…

  • Researcher: Yellowstone wolves distinct

    Ralph Maughan

    With influence by humans not a factor, packs have older, experienced hunters- The wolves of Yellowstone Park are different than other wolves (even though they all originated some generations ago from Alberta or British Columbia). The reason is lack of human-caused mortality. Doug Smith of Yellowstone Park spoke of this Thursday (story in Billings Gazette)…

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