New fires dwindling with cooler weather.
Most of the 312,595 acres burned is due to the massive cheat grass fire in southern Idaho. The Long Butte Fire burned 306,000 acres since Saturday night.
Idaho wildfire update: 312,595 acres burning as of Friday.
Idaho Statesman
Update Aug. 29 (Sunday)– Southern Idaho wildfires continue […]
Continue Reading →Rocky Mountains Elk Foundation’s CEO David Allen’s annoying hysteria about wolves causing the “biggest wildlife management disaster since the 19 Century buffalo slaughter” is discredited-
2010 Big Game hunting forecast. By Christine Peterson. Casper Star-Tribune staff writer trib.com. Posted at the trib: Thursday, August 26
Continue Reading →Giant oil machinery on U.S. Highway 12 not the only such issue in the northern rockies-
Folks will recognize that Cody Coyote has posted a number of comments here about this Montana and by geography, Wyoming, issue. Now there is a full length article.
Montana’s Plan to Haul Gold on the Chief Joe Highway […]
Continue Reading →My personal opinion is that moderate groups could sit down and work out a new wolf delisting plan. Of course, this would require the state governments to change their wolf management plans if they want to participate in wolf management. Unfortunately, state politicians are probably not among moderates, especially with an election coming up.
Decision to remove took decades. Decades more before salmon runs will be restored-
Despite these “minor” delays, this is a bit of very good news.
Contract to remove Elwha dams goes to Montana firm. By Lynda V. Mapes. Seattle Times staff reporter
Continue Reading →Rather than pursue a grizzly bear restoration that puts bears’ welfare first, the feds are appealing a district court decision to keep grizzlies protected under the Endangered Species Act, taking that decision to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
From the Endangered Species Act:
The term ‘‘endangered species’’ means any species which is in danger […]
Continue Reading →It’s been a bad year for bighorn sheep in Montana.
Spread of Bighorn Sheep Pneumonia Continues – New West
While we see an increasing amount of media attention that bighorns are dying of disease, unfortunately, with this article, there is a familiar omission of context regarding a likely source of disease for bighorns in […]
Continue Reading →Fire moved up to 30 miles an hour at times
Southern Idaho experienced quite a wind storm Saturday night with lightning and little rain. Boise was hit hard with power outages caused by downed trees all over town due to 70 mile per hour gusts of wind. The Long Butte fire started that night and […]
Continue Reading →August 20, 2010 update–
Here is the latest wolf news latest wolf news from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for Wyoming where the feds still officially manage wolves. There are links to other resources.
I converted their news from .doc to a pdf file in an effort to make it readable here. Unfortunately […]
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