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 “Wildlife Services,” which might have been named that so that folks will confuse it with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service or a state fish […]
Continue Reading →Washington D.C. At the federal level, there appears to be more crude, heavy-handed politics in the delisting of the gray wolf.
Three prominent scientists, experts on wolves, were just cut from the committee at the insistence of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service because they signed a letter with 13 other wolf scientists expressing […]
Continue Reading →Lawsuit aims to take back majority of marsh land used to create the Refuge-
A lawsuit by landowners who helped create the Grays Lake National Wildlife Refuge in 1965, now threatens is dismemberment.
One of the best known features of the obscure country between the eastern edge of the Snake River Plain and the Wyoming […]
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 →Several recent discussions on The Wildlife News have focused on trends in wolf depredations (i.e. killing of domestic animals), and pondered what they mean for the future of wolves’ management. The notion that per capita depredations (i.e. depredations per wolf) should increase with time is implicit in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) 2009 […]
Continue Reading →Career professional in agency to assume duties immediately after a long series of Republican “holds” on his nomination-
The Fish and Wildlife Service has been led since January 2009 Acting Director Rowan Gould.
“Holds” in the U.S. Senate on bills and nominations have become a kind of one-person filibuster. It is becoming difficult for any […]
Continue Reading →The 2006 Memorandum of Agreement has EXPIRED.
The State of Idaho and Wildlife Services have been operating outside of the law since relisting has occurred. It appears that the State of Idaho has no management authority over wolves now that they have been re-listed under the ESA. This is evidenced by the Memorandum of Agreement […]
Continue Reading →Though Wyoming caused relisting of the wolf twice, they have no plans to change-
The article interestingly enough says that Idaho’s Butch Otter and and Montana’s Brian Schweitzer haven’t bothered to ask Wyoming’s retiring Governor Freudenthal whether Wyoming intends to reconsider.” I’m not sure what to make of that.
Wyoming not apologetic for thwarting […]
Continue Reading →I attended the IDFG Commissioner’s “special meeting” on Monday in Idaho Falls where the commissioners discussed how to proceed now that wolves are again protected by the Endangered Species Act.
After the Commission decided to adopt new rules on placement of traps, which requires trappers to keep traps at least 5 feet away from the […]
Continue Reading →I just got back home from the Idaho Fish and Game Commissioner’s meeting in Idaho Falls. At the meeting an informative document “Gray Wolves in Idaho: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Answers to Idaho Department of Fish and Game Questions” was handed out. Check it out.
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