Endangered Species Act

  • Montana FWP and Idaho Fish and Game submit wolf reduction proposals

    Ken Cole

    Idaho and Montana have submitted proposals to the US Fish and Wildlife Service for approval to kill up to 186 wolves in Montana and up to 80% of the estimated 76 wolves in Idaho’s Lolo hunting zones. Here is the IDFG proposal: IDFG proposes an adaptive strategy to reduce the wolf population in the Lolo…

  • Global Warming, Killer Bears?

    Brian Ertz

    Obama’s Abandonment of the West Doug Peacock continues to enrich the debate over grizzlies in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem : Global Warming, Killer Bears? Doug Peacock, Counterpunch Biologists sometimes like to quibble that losing the grizzly because of the collapse of whitebark pine forests may be the least of our ecological worries. Ecosystems are, of…

  • Montana state officials defend wolf appeal

    Ken Cole

    Delisting could take years Even if the states win an appeal of Malloy’s wolf decision it may take years before the other issues in the case are resolved. The legislatures of the respective states have only committed to maintaing a population of 300 wolves total. Regardless of the commitment of the game agencies the legislatures…

  • Feds Again Delay Long-overdue Protections for Montana Grayling

    Ken Cole

    For Immediate Release, September 7, 2010 Feds Again Delay Long-overdue Protections for Montana Grayling Helena, Mont.— In response to a lawsuit brought by conservationists, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today determined the Montana grayling, a fish in the salmon family, warrants protection under the Endangered Species Act, but that such protection is again precluded…

  • Death of whitebark pine results record number of WY grizzly captures this year

    Ralph Maughan

    Hungry grizzlies at lower elevations, find livestock, along with natural food- Although federal grizzly bear managers have been sanguine about the the death of whitebark pine in the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem, the effect on the grizzlies is obvious in Wyoming. They have come down from the subalpine where the whitebark pine will never again have…

  • Wyoming not apologetic for thwarting wolf plans

    Ralph Maughan

    Though Wyoming caused relisting of the wolf twice, they have no plans to change- The article interestingly enough says that Idaho’s Butch Otter and and Montana’s Brian Schweitzer haven’t bothered to ask Wyoming’s retiring Governor Freudenthal whether Wyoming intends to reconsider.” I’m not sure what to make of that. Wyoming not apologetic for thwarting wolf…

  • State scrambling to revive wolf hunt

    Ken Cole

    …..and GUT the Endangered Species Act. The details of the overreach. The States are asking their congressional delegations to GUT the Endangered Species Act by changing the language of the Act so that it would allow species to be delisted based on state boundaries. In other words, it would allow the USFWS to use arbitrary,…

  • Brief for 10(j) Lawsuit Filed in Federal Court

    Ken Cole

    The 2008 10(j) rule violates the Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act. Now that wolves have been placed back on the list of endangered species a lawsuit, which was filed before delisting was proposed, is now able to proceed. The groups are challenging the 2008 10(j) rule change which lowered the bar…

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