The bull trout, a char, is listed under the Endangered Species Act as threatened in the lower 48 states. It has been extirpated from about 60 percent of its natural range. Worse, like many native salmonids, it is primarily found in headwater streams with little connectivity to larger river systems. The bull trout is a top apex predator, and as a […]
Continue Reading →Real wildlife takes island back after rats poisoned. Island renamed Hawadax Island
The brown rats showed up on this 9 by 3 mile Aleutian Island in 1780 on the wreck of a Japanese ship. It is one of 16 islands close by and also part of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. The national wildlife refuge contains […]
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 →Tom Knudson of the Sacremento Bee has been working on this very important and eye opening series about USDA Wildlife Services for several months. I was contacted by him in December last year and we talked about several issues related to WS and their killing.
This first installment of three introduces people to the agency […]
Continue Reading →Rare grizzly of the Cabinet-Yaak, wounded, apparently turns on hunter’s partner and kills him-
Note that the story below has been superseded. The hunter who ended up dead was shot by his partner as the grizzly attacked him. The bullet was, of course, likely meant for the bear. Matters are still being investigated as of […]
Continue Reading →The list of species the federal government has been more or less forced to consider for ESA protection has been growing longer and longer over the years, and yet it acts very slowly, complaining that species are being added at too fast a rate. Much of the agency’s tiny budget was eaten up responding to […]
Continue Reading →Living black kokanee found . . . enough for a recovery-
Scientist says he found Japanese fish thought extinct. Associated Press.
The fish were found in Lake Saiko, about 500 kilometers south of their native lake where they were killed off in the 1940s.
Continue Reading →Russian leader gives big boost to the International Tiger Forum-
Vladimir Putin has been making quite a name for himself in recent years as a man of outdoor activity, and one not afraid of large carnivores. He hopes to save the tiger from extinction. The International Tiger Forum hopes to raise an astonishing $350-million for […]
Continue Reading →DDT breakdown products and lead poisoning still threaten this high profile endangered species-
New Hurdle for California Condors May Be DDT From Years Ago. By John Moir. New York Times.
Continue Reading →Rare grizzly living on the Montana plains likely to be killed
A grizzly bear that was relocated from near Loma, Montana to west of the Continental Divide last year has been recaptured on the plains of Montana after being accused of killing more sheep and some chickens. Authorities have approached the Bear Center at Washington […]
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