The Wildlife News

December 4, 2009

  • Government wolf updates

    Ken Cole

    Recently, there have been a few government wolf updates published. Wyoming Status Reports (which sometimes have information from states like Washington, Oregon, Utah and Colorado): 11/27/2009 11/13/2009 10/30/2009 Idaho, as has been the case since wolves were delisted in the first time in 2008, has provided little information other than numbers. Their reports don’t mention…

  • Feds kill 7 wolves near Stanley

    Ken Cole

    Here is the longer story from the Mountain Express about the killing of the Basin Butte Pack near Stanley. Livestock do not winter in the Sawtooth Valley so there was no imminent danger of livestock losses. This was a revenge killing. On public lands allotments there are no mandatory terms and conditions requiring livestock permittees…

  • FWP files brief against relisting wolves

    Ken Cole

    Montana does not want wolves to be relisted Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks has filed its brief in the wolf delisting lawsuit arguing that wolves should not be relisted under the Endangered Species Act. Two stories: FWP files brief against relisting wolves Billings Gazette State FWP to Molloy: Wolves are recovered, should be delisted Missoulian

  • Big game animals scarce in once-popular hunting district along Gallatin River

    Ralph Maughan

    This is the story about hunting district 310 that a lot of SW Montana hunters are upset about- Big game animals scarce in once-popular hunting district along Gallatin River. By Brett French. Billings Gazette.

  • The coywolf, a product of evolution

    Ralph Maughan

    The wolf was not the gray wolf, however, it was the Eastern wolf — canis lycaon- Dr. Jon Way has been telling us this for some time. I see he has changed his suburban coyote page to the “coywolf page.” Broken link now fixed. Coywolves’ a product of evolution. By Lawrence Pyne. Burlington Free Press.

  • Gros Ventre habitat plan would help swans

    Ralph Maughan

    Restoration proposal would cover more than 600 acres, bring back streamside vegetation- Wildlife habitat keeps getting better in the Gros Ventre river drainage. Gros Ventre habitat plan would help swans. Halpin restoration proposal would cover more than 600 acres, bring back streamside vegetation. By Angus M. Thuermer. Jackson Hole News and Guide

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