April 2009
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We are pleased, especially that a blog about wildife and conservation news could be number one. Go to http://www.blognetnews.com/idaho/dashboard.php and click on “Weekly Influence Index.”
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Yellowstone Grizzly Bear Investigations 2008. PDF file. Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team. The report is not just Yellowstone National Park, but for most of the much larger Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
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Will genes from Idaho and the Yellowstone area finally begin to mix? Former Idaho wolf B271M has been wandering around the Yellowstone area for over two years now. He had little success finding a mate in the Park, but has paired with a radio-collared female in Sunlight Basin to Yellowstone Park’s east. So far there…
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Bill passes key State Senate committee 7-2- The bighorn is in big trouble in Idaho with the population dropping from 6,500 in 1990 to about 3,500 today. One full curl bighorn ram can be worth as much as an entire band of sheep. Bill would prohibit bighorns in sheep grazing areas. AP In an April…
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Barstool Mountain Myths: Wolves & Elk Numbers Strong Despite Dire Predictions. By Tory and Meredith Taylor. Wyomingfile.com The Taylors are longtime Wyoming outfitters. They recently retired after a long career. It is fair to say they had a much stronger conservation viewpoint than most outfitters. Meredith, for example, joined with me and a number of…
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Are they killing the invasive salt cedar (tamarisk) too rapidly? The Salt Lake Tribune has an alarming story how the beetle Diorhabda elongata , native to Kazakhstan and introduced recently to kill tamarisk, is doing it too rapidly. This is because there is apparently no plan to restore the native riparian vegetation the tamarisk crowded…
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Crippling effects of inbreeding show the problem with natural wolf recovery based on a few wolves- A fair number of people think that wolf restoration should be “natural,” — based solely in the in-migration of 2 to a dozen or so wolves, but there is not enough genetic variety in a small number for such…
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U.S. Opens Criminal Inquiry Into Death of Arizona Jaguar. By John Dougherty.NYTimes.com