During the holidays, while the 1st Annual 2-Day Coyote and Wolf Derby was taking place in Salmon, Idaho, writer Christopher Ketcham, our very own Brian Ertz, his sister Natalie Ertz, and my neighbor Brian Walker decided to enter the derby as contestants. The story they brought back was very insightful and I have been anticipating […]
Continue Reading →Today the Idaho House held its final hearing on Governor Otter’s “Wolf Control Board” bill HB470 which establishes a board which would be composed solely of people appointed by the Governor that would oversee wolf control in Idaho. The board would be funded using $2 million in general funds, $110,000 from the livestock industry, […]
Continue Reading →Judge Candy Dale has denied the request for a temporary restraining order against a 2-day wolf and coyote killing contest planned for Salmon, Idaho this weekend. The plaintiffs argued that the derby constituted a commercial event that required the US Forest Service to issue a special use permit. The judge said that plaintiffs were not […]
Continue Reading →Magistrate Judge Candy Dale has scheduled a hearing to be conducted by telephone at 9:30 am this morning to hear testimony on the litigation that was filed by several groups challenging the US Forest Service’s decision not to require a special use permit for the 2-day wolf and coyote killing contest scheduled to be […]
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For Immediate Release: December 23, 2013
Conservationists Sue to Stop Wolf and Coyote Killing Contest on Public Lands
Groups Challenge Federal Agency’s Failure to Regulate Highly […]
Continue Reading →Untabulated comments overwhelmingly opposed hunt-
More were just tossed away-
One of the most consistent characteristics of right wing movements is a distaste for democracy. From the beginning with Edmund Burke (1729-1797) who invented the word “conservatism,” is the argument that some small elite knows better than the public. Whether based on land ownership […]
Continue Reading →The Facebook photo has gone viral. It drips with symbolic hostility and one actually dead wolf. Now the photo has been taken down on Facebook, but you can see it many places in case it hasn’t already been emailed to you. We received a half dozen or so by email. Our experience is hardly unique.
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Continue Reading →Season generally runs August 30 to March 31-
Idaho’s wolf-hostile, general hunting season opens again tomorrow. The season is six months long except for parts of the state where it is ten months long.
While normal hunts for elk, deer, ducks, and the like, strive to maintain sustainable and nearly stable populations of the game […]
Continue Reading →State’s first wolf hunt will no longer include any trapping-
Michigan plans to have its first wolf hunt this fall. It will be in three parts (units) of the state’s Upper Peninsula (the U.P.).
The original wolf hunt plan approved included trapping as well as shooting the wolves, but that has now been dropped. Hunt […]
Continue Reading →No relief from Montana’s imposition on Park wildlife-
Year after year the state of Montana has pummelled Yellowstone Park’s wildlife right at its northern boundary. They have slaughtered thousands of bison that stepped outside the Park and now decimated Yellowstone’s already naturally declining wolf population.
Today a Montana state district judge strengthened the earlier ruling (injunction) […]
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