Some good news for the day. An apparently healthy male jaguar has been documented in southern Arizona. This is good news after the Macho B incident where another male jaguar, […]
U.S Sheep Experiment Station, Q-Fever, and Wildlife Conflicts.
Larry Zuckerman and I recently wrote about a visit to the US Experiment Sheep Station (USSES) operated by the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in eastern Idaho near Dubois and […]
B.C. passes law banning mining and drilling in the upper Flathead River
What a turnaround in the space of 3 years! In 2008 I took a 2 week trip to the headwaters of the famed North Fork of the Flathead River in […]
College professor gets some licks in against Don Young in hearing on ANWR
Congressional hearings are rigged, but occasionally you can insult congressional tyrants- Public hearings before Congress are hardly ever disinterested forums for gaining policy knowledge. They are mostly set up by […]
Tasmanian poachers plead guilty and are kicked out of Idaho after paying fines
Poachers killed a big bull elk and also illegally transferred wolf tags- Here is the outcome of the matter of the elk poaching Tasmanians in the Idaho wilderness. Many of […]
Public Land Ranchers Object to Species Viability
In an implicit acknowledgement that public lands ranching is often incompatible with native species viability on public lands, Margaret Soulen Hinson provides more hyperbolic rhetoric at a hearing of the […]
Looming diseases and court order leads to plan for major reduction of animals at National Elk Refuge
Wintering elk on Refuge to be reduced to 5000 to 7000- Angus M. Thuermer Jr. of the Jackson Hole News and Guide has written another article on the problem of […]
Montana’s wolf hunt ended in 30 counties on Nov. 16
Quota of 18 wolves was reached over a large area of the state- Unit 390 which is the following counties closed after 18 wolves were killed and tagged. Prairie, Custer, […]