What a difference a state can make-
When you leave Idaho for Oregon, it seems like more Idaho for a long distance. The same is true to a lesser extent in Washington State, but this story certainly shows, politically speaking, for the conservation of a controversial endangered species, Olympia is not like Boise, Idaho; Helena, […]
Continue Reading →Someone is using the artificial sweetener, xylitol, to presumably poison wolves in the Wood River Valley. It is unclear whether any wolves or other canines have been poisoned but one dog has died and another has been sickened by eating xylitol laced meatballs placed in the Lake Creek area.
A picture online shows […]
Continue Reading →His disappearance prompted worry that something had happened to him-
Legend has it that lone wolves don’t live long if they remain mateless. However, the Associated Press reports that wolf OR7, born in NE Oregon to the Imnaha Pack and then slowly migrating all the way to northern California is still fine. He disappeared, but […]
Continue Reading →I am the Lorax, I speak for the trees.
It seems more and more there are fewer conservation organizations who speak for the forest, and more that speak for the timber industry. Witness several recent commentaries in Oregon papers which are by no means unique. I’ve seen similar themes from other conservation groups in the […]
Continue Reading →The late wildfire season moves to the Pacific Northwest-
This year’s great Western wildfire season began in Arizona and New Mexico with huge fires in May and June. These are now out and the states have had a nice and wet summer monsoon season.
Fires then moved to Utah, Colorado, and then to the more […]
Continue Reading →Grizzly bear was wounded by bullets. How badly?
For the second time this month a grizzly bear and hunters have had a confrontation over an elk shot in the Idaho elk archery hunt. Unlike the last incident where the bear bit a hunter and ran off, this time the hunters apparently fired numerous bullets […]
Continue Reading →Washington border wolf pack clearly has become beef eaters-
The controversy over the Wedge wolf pack began in a muddle — what is really going on? Now, however, it is clear they are eating beef, perhaps mostly beef. As a result, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife has issued an order to kill […]
Continue Reading →U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service can’t let the rare carnivore just languish as a candidate endangered species-
Dana Christensen, a Montana federal district court judge has denied the United States Fish and Wildlife Service’s (“the Service”) motion to dismiss a conservationist lawsuit that asks for a prompt decision to give endangered species protection for the […]
Continue Reading →Mustang Fire orphaned this small cub, but he’s healing nicely-
Idaho Statesman reports the cub might be too small to hibernate this winter, so will laze it away dozing and eating (see this story at the bottom of the page)-
Though The Wildlife News hasn’t covered the story until now, many media have run […]
Continue Reading →Because of litigation by the Biodiversity Conservation Alliance challenging the US Forest Service over its decision to allow domestic sheep grazing in occupied bighorn sheep habitat in Wyoming, state Senator Larry Hicks has proposed a plan to remove or kill bighorn sheep to protect domestic sheep grazing. This shows the stunning depths that woolgrowers […]
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