November 2006
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“SUNDANCE — Depending on how potential litigation plays out, management of the grizzly bear could be back in the hands of state officials — and the bear itself back in the gunsights of hunters — by 2008.” That’s progress? It seems return to state management of endangered or threatened species always means “now we get…
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This has been an extremely good year for grizzly bear survival in both the Greater Yellowstone and the Northern Continental Divide ecosystem (Glacier NP, Bob Marshall Wilderness and vicinity). This story is one exception. The matter is under investigation to see if elk hunter Ken Meade killed the recently relocated grizzly by mistake, in self…
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This brief news item has been in the Idaho media, only they give it the vague headline “F&G to investigate North Idaho wolf sightings,” which would not be news at all. Craig Mountain is at the lower end of Hells Canyon and right on the Oregon border. A student showed me some data about a…
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The article is in today’s Jackson Hole Star-Tribune. The Game and Fish Commission had a big meeting in Sundance, Wyoming, Thursday and they commanded all the wolf biologists to attend. Read the first three paragraphs of the story about the meeting. In them “G&F Chief” Terry Cleveland contradicts himself three times. P1. He says so…
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The headline is ironic, given the masssive damage the recent storms did to the facilities of the Park. “Glacier Park officials feel fortunate,” by Michael Jamison. Missoulian.
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Of all those wilderness, plus side-payment (to non-wilderness interest) bills that have suddenly emerged, this is the worst. Washington County, Utah is the fastest growing part of the state because it is scenic desert country–warm in the winter, and cool in one’s air conditioned house in the summer. It’s a magnet for LDS retirees and…
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Scott Stouder is a field coordinator for Trout Unlimited in Idaho. He lives in Riggins where steelhead fishing on the Salmon River and the short salmon seasons are very important. Stouder is warning of Idaho’s development-oriented position of the Bush roadless area policy. Stouder’s piece in today’s Idaho Statesman.
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The gas companies are not reclaiming the land as they are supposed to. I can hardly believe it, and they promised in their advertisements! 😮 Here is the sorry, but hardly surprising story in the Billings Gazette.