January 2012
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Greater Yellowstone grizzlies are inbred and Yellowstone Lake far below biological potential due to its infestation with lake trout- The Associated Press reports that in a draft progress report to the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization World Heritage Committee, Yellowstone Park is looking for a million dollars a year to rid Yellowstone Lake of lake…
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Is this a portent of things to come this summer? The wind-driven fire was on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation that follows the east boundary of Glacier National Park up the the Canadian border. There is no snow this winter in this normally wickedly cold place. Story in the Great Falls Tribune. By David Murray.
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Video of an amazing number of elk captured by a cell phone- We keep hearing how Idaho elk are all but extinct from anti-wolf folks and others with various gripes. Maybe this capture from the highway on a cell phone is the only herd left, but it certainly is impressive. Folks who know southern Idaho…
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Contained in the annual wolf report to be released later this week by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) are the findings of a panel formed to review livestock depredation investigations attributed to wolves. In at least three cases ODFW found that there was insufficient evidence to support a conclusion that wolves killed…
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Wolf is stealthy, but trail camera probably took his picture last fall- On Nov. 14, an Oregon deer hunter’s trail camera probably took the only photo of famous wolf OR7 in the wild. Since then the wolf has moved into northern California. Here is the story and photos in the Ashland Mail Tribune. Deer hunter’s photo…
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The Associated Press is reporting that a bighorn sheep lamb in Yellowstone National Park has pneumonia. Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks has been tracking sheep in the Gardiner area just north of Yellowstone National Park since reports of coughing bighorn were given to them in early December. In response FWP has killed 5 sheep but…
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Friend, student and advocate for wolverine, lynx, fisher lost at age 44- I first met Dave soon after he came to Montana. He stood out. He was the happy red-haired young man in tow with Louisa Willcox, long-time friend of the grizzly bears. As the years went by, as everyone expected he grew in knowledge…
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The Real ID Act of 2005 set aside all laws that might delay construction of the border wall along Mexico- The hysteria about illegal immigration might have subsided a bit because an effective policy has finally been devised that works better than the great border wall in keeping illegal, undocumented, or whatever you call them out. It…