March 2007
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The National Wildlife Federation has paid to buy out Stanko’s Bacon Creek grazing allotment on the Bridger-Teton national forest, which is home to very important elk, deer, bighorn sheep, moose and pronghorn habitat as well as grizzly bears and 3 wolf packs. The buyout was voluntary. Story in the Billings Gazette. Deal expands wildlife habitat.…
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Alan Gregory covers the $150 bounty put on wolves in Alaska. Historically, bounties have always been controversial, and almost never worked as intended, even if you grant the legitimacy of their intent. Alaska puts a bounty on wolves. Alan Gregory’s Conservation News.
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The Supreme Court heard a very important case the other day with profound implications for future public lands management of grazing. Read about it in WWP blog. Wilkie v. Robbins.
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Al Gore has just finishing testifying before Congress on global warming. He got mixed, but generally warm reception with a few strong dissenters among Republicans. Story in The Hill.com. Gore’s testimony greeted warmly by some members, coolly by others. By Kelly McCormack Gore’s actual testimony (YouTube).
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The Rocky Mountain Wolf Recovery 2006 Interagency Annual Report is out and the mainstream media are playing the story as all about continued wolf population growth and more dead livestock than before. I haven’t had time to read much of it yet, but some of the MSM statistics seem a bit suspicious to me, so…
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The draft agenda for the North American wolf conference in Flagstaff, Arizona has been released. To sign up to attend the conference, go here. Discount rates at the Little America Hotel in Flagstaff are available until April. 1. AGENDA- Wednesday April 25th 8:00 – 8:30 Welcome: Introductions and Announcements 8:30 – 9:00 Mexican Wolf Conservation…
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Yesterday in Congress the first hearings in many years were held over bison management in and near Yellowstone Park. The hearing showed that pressure is building to -change the many years of bison harassment and slaughter by the state of Montana and stance of the federal government agency APHIS which uses the club of losing…
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The U.S. House of Representatives has passed H.R. 658, the Natural Resource Protection Cooperative Agreement Act, by a large margin, 390-10. This will give the Park Service more authority to combat alien species that are invading the national parks. Such legislation is needed for the entire country. Invasive species are as big a problem as…