The Wildlife News

March 2010

  • 2009 Northern Rockies wolf report is out today

    Ralph Maughan

    Long awaited official USFWS report on wolves is released- Here is a brief AP story on some of the report’s conclusions. Folks should note that with the larger wolf population figures of recent years and the effects of the hunting seasons, the population estimate, and the especially estimate of the number of breeding pairs of…

  • A new tick-borne disease

    Ralph Maughan

    Here is something more for our tapeworm-fearing friends to worry about, though it’s doubtful they will- Emerging Tick-Borne Disease. ScienceDaily

  • 9th Circuit overturns Molloy's grazing decision on Antelope Basin

    Ralph Maughan

    Good news for a pretty, but cattle hammered basin on the Idaho/Montana border- Although those who only think about wolves suppose Federal Judge Molloy surely sides with conservation groups, he didn’t on this decision. Fortunately the 9th Circuit overturned his approval of a bad Forest Service grazing plan. Here is the story in the Montana…

  • Chronic wasting disease claims 1st Utah elk

    Ralph Maughan

    Brain disease is already established in Utah deer- Utah’s large moose population seems to be free of this spongiform encephalopathy so far. Chronic wasting disease claims 1st Utah elk.  By Brett Prettyman. The Salt Lake Tribune

  • Wolves might have killed Alaskan teacher

    Ralph Maughan

    This might be the second wolf-caused death in North America in the last hundred or so years- There were a lot of breathless stories about this yesterday, but the one below seems to be more current and complete. Wolves may have killed village teacher. Chignik: Police unsure whether death happened before, after bite. By James…

  • Disease forces Utah DWR to kill bighorn sheep

    Ken Cole

    Sheep came from Montana Disease forces DWR to kill bighorn sheep by Brett Prettyman – The Salt Lake Tribune

  • Western Watersheds Project Files Legal Challenge To Denial of Endangered Species Act Protections for Greater Sage-Grouse

    Ken Cole

    For immediate release – March 8, 2010 Contact: Jon Marvel, Executive Director, Western Watersheds Project – 208-788-2290 Laird Lucas, Executive Director, Advocates for the West – 208-870-7621 In response to the announcement on Friday March 5 by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar that the listing of greater sage-grouse and two of its distinct population…

  • Tough winter for wolf darting in Yellowstone Park

    Ralph Maughan

    Wolf numbers in Yellowstone are way down, but that doesn’t mean more of what are left wear collars- Tough winter for wolf darting. By Brett French. Billings Gazette (reprinted in the Star-Tribune)

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