The Wildlife News

November 1, 2009

  • Shooting of collared wolves impacts research

    Ralph Maughan

    Game managers may make changes in hunting season for next year- Wow! The stories about the shooting of the Park wolves who happened to be just north of the Park keep coming. This is another one. This one today is by Brett French in the Billings Gazette. Actually we don’t know that this hasn’t happened…

  • Montana: Landowners increasingly shut access to popular spots

    Ralph Maughan

    I see it as a way for our western “royalty” to try to coerce Montana FWP into supporting wildife and fish-harmful plans- The land barons are trying to use hunters to pressure FWP into policies that are harmful to wildlife, but friendly to their private interests. The article says that for access, lots of these…

  • Montana: Poaching, other issues throw wrinkles in state's wolf hunting quotas

    Ralph Maughan

    Is one state doing a better job than the other on the hunt? I think it’s still too soon to say, and too soon on the quotas too.  Wolves killed picked up quickly in Idaho as more elk and deer hunts opened. Now the number killed is slowing down, but wait until there is more…

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Edward Abbey

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