Final figure to be about 163 166 wolves, 75% of quota-
Montana’s once extended, second wolf hunting season ends today. As of noon today, Feb. 15, 166 wolves had been reported killed in the hunt. Statewide this is about 75% of the quota set by Montana’s Fish, Wildlife and Parks commissioners. Three hunting units closed before […]
Continue Reading →Impacts of giant oil machinery on roadside business and emergency medical care on Highway 12 questioned-
Imagine you live on Highway12 and have a medical emergency. It’s night. If you can get to Lewiston or Orofino for care, you will live. Your spouse gets you into the pickup and pulls out onto Highway12, but a […]
Continue Reading →Public input is required, but conditional permits are issued-
Note: the hearing will be on Friday, Nov. 19 in Boise. The hearing will be at ITD Headquarters in Boise, 3311 W. State Street. (208) 334-8000
Advocates for the West won a brief victory Friday on behalf of local residents of Highway 12. These temporarily block […]
Continue Reading →Promises to Imperial Oil/ExxonMobil to use scenic Highway 12 to haul huge oil modules for a decade discovered hidden on Korean, not in plain English-
Talk about lack of transparency in Montana and Idaho state governments! It’s good this was revealed just before Butch Otter has to face reelection as governor of Idaho.
Continue Reading →This is a significant move of new support against the use of the highway to move giant tar sands modules-
Supervisors of Lolo, Clearwater national forests oppose big rigs on Highway 12. AP in the Missoulian.
Highway 12 winds along between these two national forests.
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More on the attempt to make U.S. Highway 12 an oil industry corridor- This from the new group, the Rural People of Highway 12. U.S. Highway 12: Idaho’s Northwest Passage Scenic Byway and All-American Road • • • Big Oil: One-Time Deal or Permanent Takeover?
Promoters of turning Idaho’s Northwest Passage Scenic Byway and All-American […]
Continue Reading →Over 200 trips of these giant oil equipment pieces to go through U.S. 12 in Idaho and NW Montana-
I think perhaps there has been too much attention in this forum on elk in Lolo. Elk are important, but fishing, scenery, wilderness, and property of local people are more important. U.S.Highway […]
Continue Reading →Will allow 4 outfitters to kill 5 wolves each
Idaho Fish and Game authorizes wolf kills in Lolo Zone.
Lewiston Tribune Online
No surprise. Elk numbers decline further. No surprise Fish and Game says it’s almost all due to wolves-
News Release– Idaho Fish and Game.
Here is a graph the department did.
Let’s analyze the graph. This decline was predicted, but not its depth. Wolves were reintroduced in 1995, but their number was […]
Continue Reading →Wolf quota is met in the Palouse-Hells Canyon zone on the Idaho/Oregon border-
The fourth Idaho wolf hunt zone has its quota of wolves killed. Eight zones are still open and four are now closed. The quota for the newly closed zone was 5 wolves. So far the reported kill overall is 129 131 wolves […]
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