Day: July 14, 2010
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IDFG adopts rules allowing trapping, snaring, baiting, and electronic calls for wolves and other predators
Inexperienced trappers will likely trap pets and other non-target animals. Backlash will ensue I think people should be prepared for many non-target animals to be taken with snares and traps including pets. It takes years and years for government employees to learn how to properly trap and snare wolves without taking non-target species and there…
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Montana FWP more than doubles wolf hunt quota for 2010
186 allowed to be taken in an attempt to reduce MT wolf population to between 411 and 488. This has been in the news for a while but we didn’t report it here because we all have been traveling. Montana wants to reduce the population of wolves to between 411 and 488. They have decided…
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Range fire at Idaho National Laboratory has burned 109,000 acres since Tuesday
Important sage grouse and pygmy rabbit habitat burning Range fire at Idaho National Laboratory has burned 109,000 acres since Tuesday By KATY MOELLER – Idaho Statesman Update on July 15. This huge fire is still burning!
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Oregon's Imnaha pack has four pups
Photos of pups from Oregon’s first reproducing pack. More photos may be seen here.
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'Loma Bear' returns, caught near Carter Carter area
Rare grizzly living on the Montana plains likely to be killed A grizzly bear that was relocated from near Loma, Montana to west of the Continental Divide last year has been recaptured on the plains of Montana after being accused of killing more sheep and some chickens. Authorities have approached the Bear Center at Washington…
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Anthrax again detected on Turner’s ranch, outbreak not expected
Ranch near Green Ranch which holds quarantined Yellowstone bison. A yearling bison on Ted Turner’s Flying D Ranch has been found to have died from anthrax. The bison is not one of the quarantined Yellowstone bison transferred to Turner but this is nearby Turner’s Green Ranch where the quarantined bison are being held. This concern…
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USFWS investigates Mexican wolf killings
Two Dead, another missing Two alpha males Mexican gray wolves have been found dead under suspicious circumstances and another collared alpha male wolf is missing. This is a disaster for the struggling population of wolves in Arizona and New Mexico. US investigates wolf killings. Tony Davis Arizona Daily Star