wildlife
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Unusual proximity of so many mountain lions probably possible because of familial relationships- Several factors probably explain how 8 cougars, very territorial animals, came together to feed on a dead cow on a cliff near Soap Lake, Washington. The first is that it is winter. Prey are concentrated into a small area and in this…
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Pronghorn and mule deer hit hard- Winter takes a toll on northeastern Montana wildlife. By Brett French. Billings Gazette. I posted a news release from ID Fish and Game the other day about winter conditions and wildlife in Eastern Idaho, but hardly anyone read it. I took it down. I’ll watch this one to see…
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The Cattle Association opposes the release- Pronghorns released for new start on Yakama Indian Reservation. Ancient inhabitants are of the Columbia Basin. Rich Landers. The Spokesman-Review. [ed. note to Spokesman-Review, the plural of pronghorn is pronghorn] Good for the Safari Club! It appears that when the cattle association took their traditional selfish approach to restoration…
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Colorless, odorless, tasteless, violent poison felled Montana wolf that migrated to Colorado- Note that the story below is a much longer replacement for the original story I posted. Wildlife investigators: Poison killed Colorado wolf. By Catherine Tsai. Associated Press in the Denver Post.
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Great article in Demarcated Landscapes rejects the dominion of ranchers over the rest of us- “. . . along comes this opinion piece from the Salt Lake City Tribune suggesting that if ranchers can’t make peace with the lobo, then the lobo cannot be recovered. …in the battle between our deep-seated fears and our hopes,…
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Sow and cubs get zapped. One cub might survive- Downed power lines electrocute 2 bears in NY. AP in the Wall Street Journal 3 -4 years ago a downed powerline in northwest Montana electrocuted several deer. The power remained on afterwards too and a wolf came to investigate the deer and was electrocuted as well.
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Wildlife migration routes protected near this “working ranch”- It was a wonderful thing when the Nature Conservancy purchased most of Henry’s Lake Flat in the 1970s to protect Henry’s Lake Outlet (stream), which is a major component of the Henry’s Fork of the Snake River headwaters. This also protected much of the sometimes beautiful flat…
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The survival or defeat of the wolf symbolizes the way people are able to access the land according to their culture- Lessons From Wolves by Jami Wright. Izilwane . Ms. Wright is a graduate student completing her thesis for a master’s degree in Cultural Anthropology at Western Washington University. Her thesis focuses on human-human conflicts…