The Wildlife News

July 2011

  • Frackers about to have their way with SW Idaho water supply

    Brian Ertz

    Closed Process Highlights Need For Meaningful State Environmental Review, Public Involvement With the recent discovery of natural gas in southwest Idaho many residents are concerned about their local watersheds.  They should be, fracking is an ugly business : Before 2005, regulation of fracking took place under the Safe Drinking Water Act. EPA was responsible for…

  • Idaho wolf hunting rules don’t include quotas

    Ken Cole

    Includes trapping season in most of the Panhandle. Idaho Fish and Game has proposed to set wolf hunting seasons throughout most of the state ranging from August 30, 2011 to March 31, 2012, in 13 wolf management zones. None of the zones – except for the Sawtooth, Southern Mountains, Beaverhead, and Island Park zones –…

  • Gutting Bighorn Sheep Protections

    Ken Cole

    Fiscal Year 2012 – House Interior-Environment Appropriations Bill – Part 3 Another provision of the House Interior-Environment Appropriations Bill would make it impossible for land management agencies to help bighorn sheep by reducing interaction with disease ridden domestic sheep if it might conceivably reduce livestock grazing.  Because of the precedent set by the decision made by…

  • Deal reached between Wyoming and US Fish and Wildlife Service.

    Ken Cole

    Only 100 wolves outside Yellowstone. Wyoming and the USFWS have reached a deal which would only maintain 10 breeding pairs or 100 wolves outside of Yellowstone National Park. There would also be a “flex” zone which they say would allow wolves to “migrate” to and from Idaho during the winter so that genetic connectivity could…

  • Feds Count Livestock Losses Differently in the Northern Rockies

    Brian Ertz

    Moscow, ID – Today, Friends of the Clearwater and WildEarth Guardians call into question how two different federal agencies count livestock losses attributed to wolves in the States of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.  The livestock death losses figures are reported by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) show a remarkable magnitude of disparity from…

  • Gutting the Endangered Species Act.

    Ken Cole

    Fiscal Year 2012 – House Interior-Environment Appropriations Bill – Part 2 In an another example of paying for tax cuts to billionaires with deregulation and spending cuts, the House Interior-Environment Appropriations Bill released yesterday, which limits judicial review of future wolf delisting rules in Wyoming and the Western Great Lakes, would also effectively gut the…

  • Grizzly bear kills hiker in Yellowstone National Park

    Brian Ertz

    First fatal encounter in the Park since 1986 Grizzly bear kills hiker in Yellowstone National Park – LA Times – Greenspace Wednesday’s incident appeared to be an act of defense by the bear, which fled with her cubs.  

  • House Interior-Environment Appropriations Bill Limits Judicial Review on Wyoming and Western Great Lakes Wolf Delisting.

    Ken Cole

    Fiscal Year 2012 – House Interior-Environment Appropriations Bill – Part 1 Today the Fiscal Year 2012 Interior-Environment Appropriations Bill was released by the House Appropriations Committee.  The bill is a very long and complicated bill which reduces all kinds of environmental protections and agency accountability to the public.  Over the next few days we will be…

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