Four-year old grizzly steps in trap on Rocky Mountain Front, Montana- Last year’s wolf trapping season in Idaho and Montana had a horrible by-catch ratio — animals other than wolves were […]
Editorial: Long time Idaho conservationist pleads guilty to elk poaching
Marv Hoyt of Idaho Falls cited for illegally killing 2 elk and wasting the meat- Editorial I must have known Marv Hoyt for over 30 years, and sometimes worked with […]
Pacific Wolf Coalition says large number of pro-wolf comments submitted
About a million nationwide and over a hundred thousand from the Pacific Northwest- The Pacific Wolf Coalition, composed of 29 wildlife conservation, education and protection organizations in California, Oregon and […]
News shorts: WaPo, big story on Wildlife Services; coyote pack kills dog at Tahoe . . .
There are a lot of wildlife related stories. Washington Post and Wildlife Services- There have been many efforts to raise public perception of the depredations of the misnamed federal agency […]
Do you have some interesting wildlife news? Dec. 16, 2013 edition
Our readers find lots of news and they have many comments. Please post yours below as a comment –“Leave a reply.” Here is the link to the old thread that’s […]
Problems with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Proposal to Remove Federal Protections for Gray Wolves
In June of 2013, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) proposed removing federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) protection for the gray wolf (Canis lupus, Linnaeus) throughout most of the […]
Yellowstone’s annual “Vital Signs,” “Wolf report,” and “Bird report” are now available
Valuable wildlife reports can be downloaded by the public- While it might seem — it might be true — that most politicians and many of the public get all their […]
Missoula hosts Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee meeting today and tomorrow
They will claim whitebark pine are not necessary to delist Yellowstone area grizzly bears- They tried to delist the Greater Yellowstone grizzly population back in 2007, but skeptical bear conservationists sued because […]