Arizona
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On last day of court-ordered deadline, USFWS does not announce plan, but asks for an extension- U.S. Fish and Wildlife misses deadline on jaguar recovery plan. By Susan Montoya Bryan. Associated Press.
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Hope for the future with plans to reduce “controls” for livestock depredations? High mortality for the small population of Mexican wolves continued this year with the population again ending at about 50 wolves. Under new management plans it is hoped that government wolf removal for killing livestock will abate. Another deadly year for Mexican wolf.…
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A lot of this article is just blue sky exaggeration- This article’s URL was emailed to me by someone familiar with the Mexican wolf program. Federal officials look for ways to make wolf recovery a success in the Southwest. By Susan Montoya Bryan. LA Times. My email friend wrote: “I read these stories and I…
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Western Watersheds Project Wins Summary Judgment on the 100,000 acre Byner Complex Allotments. BLM- This no “family ranch” but a spin-off of Freeport-McMoRan mining. Here is the WWP’s news release on the victory for the American people ♦Western Watersheds Project’s Arizona Office has been granted Summary Judgment byAdministrative Law Judge Harvey C. Sweitzer in a…
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The focus has been on the bighorn sheep versus domestic sheep case, but Greta Anderson of the WWP’s Arizona office won an case before an administratrive law judge today — Western Watersheds Project v. Bureau of Land Management and intervener Byner Cattle Corporation. Here is the order. Byner Complex Order October 2009
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As a note, David Parsons was director of the Mexican wolf recovery program in its early and more successful years. His Bush boss fired him. Several years ago, he won our “Alpha Award” (awarded by the Wolf Recovery Foundation). Let science lift number of Mexican gray wolves. By Rich Fredrickson and David Parsons. The Arizona…
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Followup to Obama’s move to temporarily delay mining claims on a million scenic acres is shaping up into a major battle- Mine ban at Canyon may fuel new fight By Shaun McKinnon and Erin Kelly. Azcentral.com Polls show the state’s residents support the general position of Grijalva. The Arizona Strip is a vast area of…
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On the Mexican wolf recovery program- “The [Mexican] wolves will go extinct,” Michael Robinson, conservation advocate with the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity, says. “If the program is continued exactly the way it is now, these wolves will go extinct.” – – – – – In my view the federal government’s Mexican Wolf Recovery program…