Gardiner- A weekend long event titled, Speak for Wolves: Yellowstone 2014 is scheduled to take place in Gardiner, Montana from June 27-29, 2014. Organizers are describing it as an opportunity for the American people to unite and demand wildlife management reform and take steps toward restoring our national heritage. The festivities include prominent speakers, live […]
Continue Reading →In the most recent issue of the journal, Science my colleagues and I argue that the wildlife trust doctrine (a branch of the broader public trust doctrine) may provide a legal means for interested citizens to compel states to conserve controversial species such as wolves. We argue that this common law doctrine fills the gap […]
Continue Reading →You too can hunt bison in fenced wildlife management areas.
The Montana Department of Fish Wildlife and Parks is floating a plan to move the last remaining quarantined bison to State owned wildlife management areas. Good thing right? Not so fast, they would be fenced in and not allowed to roam freely on the landscape. […]
Continue Reading →It is an academic blog dedicated to the social and political aspects–the so-called “human dimensions”–of wildlife management-
Wildlife Conservation Policy. Jeremy Bruskotter is an assistant professor in the School of Environment and Natural Resources at the Ohio State University. He regularly discusses wildlife conservation policy here on The Wildlife News.
Continue Reading →Controversy sparks various efforts to suppress wildlife management to favor extremists-
In addition to the effort by Montana Senators Jon Tester and Max Bacus to legalize Montana and Idaho’s wolf management plans by changing the law, a group of 8 far right Republicans has introduced legislation to give wolf management to the states.
Ersatz […]
Continue Reading →A guest article by Mike Settell
On June 26th, 2010, I inspected the South Fork of Mink Creek to document conditions of the Box Canyon road culvert that was being plugged by beaver. Like many roads throughout the west, the South Fork Road parallels the creek and so problems with the road-creek interface are, at best, […]
Continue Reading →Is “bagging a trophy” really an amoral choice?
This is a very interesting article that discusses the very core of issues we discuss on this blog. I thoroughly recommend that you read it as I think it represents how I feel about wildlife, and more specifically large carnivore, management today. The proponents of trophy hunting […]
Continue Reading →Notice: for those who want to comment on this, the comment period has been extended until noon on May 12, 2009. You can also provide oral testimony to the Fish and Game Commission the evening or the 13th. The Fish and Game Commission meeting begins at 7:00PM in the ISU Student Union Bldg – […]
Continue Reading →Non-invasive techniques such as hair traps, camera traps, and scat samples can tell biologists a lot about habitat use and population size
Tools That Leave Wildlife Unbothered Widen Research Horizons. By Jim Robbins. New York Times
There has been a lot of discussion on this blog about radio collars and other invasive techniques used […]
Continue Reading →Idaho Senate Resources & Environment committee meeting by BE.
Perhaps just my feeling, but this tells us so much about the players and their priorities.
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