October 2009
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The 3 cubs were in good shape and couldn’t be trapped. In addition, there is yet another sow with 3 cubs in the area! Rather than some marginal glade far from grizzly country (the Eldorado Grove), this sounds like grizzly central at this time of year where the bears are fat and cubs do well.…
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Hunters are nearing the quota in three Idaho wolf hunting zones- Sixty-nine wolves have been shot now, 151 are left in the quota, but their are sub-quotas — quotas for each wolf zone. Palouse-Hells Canyon, McCall-Weiser, and Upper Snake have only 3 wolf tags left to fill. Two of the three had only 5 tags…
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. . . and Utah officials had no backbone- This gets more and more disgusting the longer the story goes on. Today’s article in the Salt Lake Tribune has a handy sidebar with links to past articles. Did Utah blink in Snake Valley talks? Water » New documents show Beehive State’s position changed after Nevada’s…
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Domestic sheep will not return to allotment in bighorn sheep habitat. The Partridge Creek allotment in the Salmon River Canyon near Riggins is closed to domestic sheep grazing after Western Watersheds Project, The Wilderness Society, and Hells Canyon Preservation Council filed suit in Federal Court. This is a huge victory for bighorn sheep which have…
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Plan contemplates a possible large state wolf population- Plan contemplates floor of 15 breeding pairs. Wolves to be distributed all around the state. AP The preferred alternative sounds like an advanced plan with a much better distribution pattern of wolves than we find in Idaho, and especially better than Montana or Wyoming. Currently the state…
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Hunters survive night attack in Purcell Mountains. Hiked 5 kilometers back to truck after attack- Two lucky hunters survived what sounds to me like a half-hearted predatory attack by a female grizzly. There is evidence that they had been followed by two grizzlies earlier that day. I say “half-hearted” because they would not have survived…
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Utah gets a beaver management plan- Restoring beaver to a creek changes just about everything, mostly for the good, especially if there are no buildings or needed roads near the creek. Story on Utah’s first beaver management plan. Plan looks to use the large rodents as a watershed restoration tool. By Brett Prettyman. The Salt…
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NRA members tell phantasmagorical story to try to gain standing- If this really happened, most people would regard it as the highlight their trip, not the basis of a lawsuit. Three blood dripping wolf packs, driven off by snowballs! They should be denied standing to intervene. NRA wants to join lawsuit on delisting. By Eve…