September 2006
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People have been fearing this for a long time. Hopefully the domestic elk have no disease. The politics of the whole is really disgusting, but perhaps the outcome will be to put strong controls on these private elk “hunting” reserves, and maybe like the good folks in Montana did, shut them down. They are an…
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A high proportion of Wyoming elk that reside on state run elk feedlots in the winter (or the National Elk Refuge near Jackson) are infected with or exposed to brucellosis. Elk that “winter out” have far lower infection rates, but WY Game and Fish, under pressure from ag interests, wants to keep those feedlots. So…
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Read about it in the Billings Gazette. It’s especially bad near Yellowstone. Article Foul air due to forest and range fire smoke has also canceled athletic events many miles to the southwest in Boise, Idaho. Article.
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Montana Department of Livestock and Yellowstone Park, who has been dragged into bison killing by the Bush Administration, sent more than a thousand to slaughter last winter. The controversial Montana bison hunt killed 45. There was winter mortality and minor predation by Yellowstone wolves. This year the hunt will have 140 tags. A lot of…
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In my last update on the Yellowstone Park wolves, I forgot to give information on the Cougar Creek Pack; and there was no information available on the Cougar Creek II Pack. Here it is
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Every year the Wolf Recovery Foundation, Defenders of Wildlife, and several other groups host the North American Wolf Conference. It is no longer held in conjunction with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In 2006, like most years in the past, the conference was held at Chico Hot Springs, Montana. However, in 2007 we are…
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Tom Turiano and his daughter and friend had a very interesting wolf experience at lower Green River Lake in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming this past weekend. Tom emailed me the story.
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One of the major factors every year whether there will be grizzly conflicts in the fall is the status of fat-rich whitebark pine crop. If there is a good crop, the bears will stay at high elevations where the whitebark pine grows — just below timberline. In recent years, there has been some pessimism about…