November 2006
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Good news from Oregon. This was in the Oregonian.
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Bill Schneider has a fine article on the defeat of Richard Pombo. Read it in New West. In the view of most conservationists, Pombo wasn’t just an opponent, not an adversary, but a crazy man throwing bombs at everything good and decent. He had to be cut down.
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It’s time to reauthorize the controversial, disease-spreading winter elk feedlots on US Forest Service land in Wyoming. The Forest Service has been doing it annually and they figure they can do so again and get away with it again.
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How many grizzlies live in the Northern Continental Divide ecoystem (that’s Glacier National Park and about 6-million adjaccent acres)? A massive first-of-its-kind DNA study was undertaken several years ago using this new method which avoids the pitfalls of direct observation plus interpolation which has been the past method. The Daily InterLake reports today the number…
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The Coalition of National Park Service Retirees reports that decreased use of Yellowstone Park by snowmobiles has been the greatest factor favoring air quality in the Park the last few years. Read about it in the Jackson Hole News and Guide. By Cory Hatch.
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While they are often still out of sight up in the Lamar River, upstream from Lamar Valley, the 15-member Druid Pack appears to be reclaiming their old territory after they were marginalized in recent years by the surging Slough Creek Pack. Today the third encounter of the year between the two pack was inferred, although…
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Idaho Fish and Game put out the following news release today about the hunting season. It was written by a wildlife officer from Grangeville. That’s in North Central Idaho (Clearwater River area). It’s not hard data, rather impressionistic. I wonder why the officer comments on the effects of wolves on elk and moose hunting, but…
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Montana’s second bison hunt began today. I agree with the Buffalo Field Campaign and I oppose it, not because I’m against hunting bison but because Montana’s government will not provide the bison with any habitat. They shoot bison that leave Yellowstone Park. Essentially they are leeching off the American public. My personal view is that…