The Wildlife News

May 2013

  • Yellowstone Park fishing regs double down on non-native fish

    Ralph Maughan

    Limit on rainbow and brook trout abolished (with exceptions)- With the exception of some popular roadside rivers such as the Madison, Firehole, and lower Gibbon River, limits on the number of non-native trout are abolished in new Yellowstone Park fishing regulations. In addition, any lake trout caught in Yellowstone Lake are required to be killed.…

  • Bill would allow ranchers to voluntarily end their grazing allotments in exchange for private compensation

    Ralph Maughan

    Rural Economic Vitalization Act reintroduced- The Rural Economic Vitalization Act (REVA) would allow private parties to pay willing ranchers to relinquish their grazing permits on public lands, and then the grazing allotment would then be permanently closed to livestock grazing.  U.S. Representative Adam Smith of Washington State has just reintroduced this legislation. Conservationists and economists…

  • Alvord Cutthroat Trout, Not Extinct After All?

    Ken Cole

    Alvord cutthroat trout were a subspecies of cutthroat trout native to the Alvord Basin of southeast Oregon that many believe went extinct in their pure form shortly after they were described. At the time they were discovered in the 1930’s, they were already on their way out due to hybridization with introduced rainbow trout. In…

  • My Yellowstone Experience

    Jon Way

    Readers of The Wildlife News might be interested in my new book, My Yellowstone Experience. Yellowstone is near and dear to many of our hearts here at The Wildlife News, as evidenced by the disproportionate amount of topics (and opinions) related to Yellowstone, compared to elsewhere, that are discussed on this website. My Yellowstone Experience,…

  • BLM Abuse of its Public Trust Duty – Conservationists Win Duck Creek Case

    Ken Cole

    Western Watersheds Project and Wild Utah Project had a significant win this week on the Duck Creek allotment of Utah.  In the longest running administrative grazing appeal hearing in the history of the Department of the Interior, including 12 weeks of hearings and a record of 15,000 pages, WWP demonstrated that BLM’s rangeland health assessments…

  • Wildlife Services maybe to get more money to deal with feral swine

    Ralph Maughan

    More dollars to deal with these destructive invasives might get into federal budget- The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) gives the good news that federal appropriations might go up this year for feral hog control despite sequesters, debt limit confrontations, austerity programs, etc. USDA-Wildlife Services, an agency which most conservationists have a low opinion, would…

  • Conservation scientists oppose efforts to remove federal protections for wolves across the lower 48 states

    Jeremy Bruskotter

    Interior Secretary Sally Jewell received two letters today from conservation scientists criticizing a draft Rule that would remove protections for wolves across the lower 48 states. One letter came from the American Society of Mammalogists, the other from 16 conservation scientists.  Signatories include several scientists who conducted the research the government relied upon in the…

  • US Fish and Wildlife Service sued by Western Watersheds over the legal implication of grizzly bear disappearance

    Ralph Maughan

    USFWS called “wrong” to say no grizzlies had been killed on Sheep Experiment Station on Idaho/Montana border, Continental Divide Area Boise, ID.  On May 17, 2013 the Western Watersheds Project, Cottonwood Environmental Law Center, Native Ecosystems Council and Yellowstone Buffalo Foundation filed a suit in federal district court to challenge domestic sheep grazing that has been…

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