June 2007
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This is a good article because for once it makes clear the wolves were interested in the dog, not the person. I’m amazed that a small dog could chase a wolf and survive. Story by Jason Kaufman in the Idaho Mountain Express. post 1260
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Story. Big Hole drops. By Nick Gevock of The Montana Standard. A small snowpack last winter plus ranchers drawing out water to grow hay is drying up the river, the home of the river-dwelling grayling in the lower U.S. Recently the Bush Administration refused to put the Big Hole River grayling on the endangered species…
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Frank Robbins isn’t just any rancher. He moved to Wyoming from the South and purchased a large ranch north of Thermopolis. There has been controversy ever since. His lawsuit against BLM employees as individuals, rather than as agents of the government, was unprecedented. A different outcome would have made the BLM an even weaker agency…
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The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) got 100,000 public comments on their plan to guide oil and gas development in the upper Green River Basin. This is a wildlife rich and highly scenic area. People care about it in Wyoming and outside as well. Story. Most favor conservation for Pinedale management area. By Whitner…
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The Uhl Hill fire inside Grand Teton National Park is burning near where the Teton wolf pack of days gone by used to den. Meanwhile, outside Grand Teton, the Horse Creek fire in the Wyoming Range has grown from 800 to 1200 acres. The Nylander Creek Fire, south of the Horse Creek Fire, is 100…
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This lawsuit is over sheep grazing in the Centennial Mountains to the west of Yellowstone. The range forms the Idaho/Montana border. -News Release- Conservationists File Suit Over Illegal Sheep Grazing in Yellowstone Area Groups Seek to Protect Bighorn Sheep and Other Endangered Species SILVER CITY, N.M.— Two conservation groups sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture…
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This is a guest editorial in the Montana Standard written by Derek Goldman and Chris Marchion. It was not written by “staff.” More on Big Hole River grayling. Montana Standard.
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As I sit and write this in Pocatello, Idaho, the high smoke passing overhead (from the Cow Canyon fire) heralds an early beginning of the summer wildfire season, but Cow Canyon is hardly the only fire. Headwaters News today has a “roundup” on the fires. The most damaging one is near Lake Tahoe and has…