Montanans for Trap Free Public Lands working to gather signatures for a Montana Ballot Initiative.
Montanans for Trap Free Public Lands is out pounding the street to get signatures for its ballot initiative to ban trapping on public lands. They have gathered 6000+ signatures and they need 25,000 by June to get it on […]
Continue Reading →Big Hole Valley will be empty of wolves after control actions finish.
The rancher who closed his land to public hunting will get his way once all of the wolves in the Big hole Valley are killed.
3 wolf packs in SW Montana to be eliminated.
By Nick Gevock, Montana Standard
Will the petrocracy — and greens — keep Wyoming from realizing its windy potential?
Wind power is not a popular thing in Wyoming for some and very popular for others. It is very unpopular for advocates for sage grouse and other birds.
Wind resistance.
High Country News
Is this going to result in a new power grab?
This seems to be what is behind the attempt to put elk under the purview of the Montana Department of Livestock. The article indicates that brucellosis is more prevalent on private lands where hunting is limited and elk congregate. I think the real question that […]
Continue Reading →The leaders in the war on wolves
When was the last time you heard about Wildlife Services talking about non-lethal methods of preventing livestock losses to wolves? The only place in Idaho that this is practiced is with the sheep passing through the Wood River Valley each year and by Lava Lake Land and Livestock […]
Continue Reading →APHIS putting residents of Horse Butte at risk for a pointless study
From yesterday’s Buffalo Field Campaign Weekly Update [emphasis is mine]:
Along Yellowstone’s western boundary, the Duck Creek, Cougar Creek and Madison River corridors are flowing with the migration of the country’s last wild buffalo. Buffalo families, solitary bulls, and bachelor bull groups […]
Continue Reading →28 wolves killed in control since the beginning of the year
The Idaho Wolf Management Progress Report has been released by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. So far the report says there have been 28 wolves killed for 14 livestock animals taken. This doesn’t make sense when you consider that last month’s depredation […]
Continue Reading →The federal authorization for each state to reduce wolves to 100-150 animals puts northern Rockies wolves on a spiral toward extinction.
Interesting opinion piece about the inadequacies of the States’ wolf management plans.
Montana, Idaho and Wyoming Wolf Policies Foreshadow Extinction
By Michael J. Robinson, Guest Writer for New West
2 of the 4 wolf packs have disappeared and the overall population has dropped from 24 to 19 wolves
The interactions of wolves and moose on Isle Royale National Park have been studied for decades. In recent years the wolves, due to their low genetic diversity, have exhibited malformed vertebra and other deformities related to […]
Continue Reading →Conservationists accuse each other of distorting elk and wolf data.
This article is about the recent public fight between the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and Defenders of Wildlife.
I think part of the reason that the feud has heated up is because of the use of words like “annihilation” when referencing wolves and elk. I […]
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