Grizzly that wandered the Montana plains commits a final unpardonable sin-
Yes, and a year ago it ate some sheep. Two chickens this year were two too many.
It makes me sad because it reminds me that no matter what we fantasize, the bears and us are stuck in a depressed, overpopulated, bureaucratized world with […]
Continue Reading →Park lifts camping ban forced by bear activity. Casper Star Tribune.
Related. Grizzly bites Casper man near Union Pass. Jackson Hole Daily. This isn’t all that far from the upper Green
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Posted earlier on July 10. Grizzly bears prompt camping closure in popular Upper […]
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 […]
Continue Reading →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 […]
Continue Reading →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!
Continue Reading →Photos of pups from Oregon’s first reproducing pack.
More photos may be seen here.
Continue Reading →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 […]
Continue Reading →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 […]
Continue Reading →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
Roy Heberger, former coordinator of the wolf recovery program in Idaho, writes of his experiences with wolf recovery while with the US Fish & Wildlife Service.
Wolf Recovery Coordinator Recalls the Call of the Wild – Roy Heberger – WWPblog
Before my retirement from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) in July 2000, […]
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