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  • Formal Protection For Pika Due To Climate Change

    Ken Cole

    Pikas are disappearing from the alpine areas of Great Basin and may be listed due to climate change. People who frequent the alpine areas of Idaho may be familiar with these small relatives of rabbits. Pikas live in boulder fields where they harvest herbaceous plants and carry them into their dens. You can often hear…

  • New grizzly bear plans released for Selkirk and Cabinet Mountains

    Ralph Maughan

    Comments will be taken until June 22- Grizzly protection proposed. Plan would limit public’s access. Becky Kramer. Spokesman-Review It is irritating that the headline for the new plan to save the grizzlies in these two disjunctive grizzly populations of northern Idaho and NW Montana should be negative in tone. After a  brief  look at the…

  • Wolves were delisted today, May 4

    Ralph Maughan

    Wolves in Northern Rockies and Great Lakes officially delisted May 4, 2009- Will delisting be better the second time around? Today for the second time in the Northern Rockies, wolves were delisted with all management decisions handed over to the states of Idaho and Montana, but not Wyoming where delisting  will not take place under…

  • A modest reversal of Bush's last-minute anti-ESA regulations is advancing

    Ralph Maughan

    It’s possible the OMB might strengthen this weak tweak of the awful Bush rules- Interior sends revised endangered species rule to OMB. By Allison Winter. Greenwire in the New York Times

  • Doug and Andrea Peacock on Montana’s Grizzly Bears, the Late Edward Abbey and the Fight to Save the Wilderness

    Ken Cole

    Democracy Now!, broadcasting from Bozeman, MT, interviews Doug and Andrea Peacock. Doug & Andrea Peacock on Montana’s Grizzly Bears, the Late Edward Abbey and the Fight to Save the Wilderness Democracy Now! JUAN GONZALEZ: Yes. Doug Peacock, I’d like to ask you, you’ve been, in some of your writing and in your interviews of late,…

  • $40,500 reward offered in shooting of 2 California condors

    Ken Cole

    The two condors are still alive but suffer from lead poisoning from ingested lead and wounds from shotgun pellets. $40,500 reward offered in shooting of 2 California condors LA Times

  • 37 griz killings spark worry

    Ken Cole

    If last year’s high mortality is repeated this year then Greater Yellowstone grizzlies may go back onto the Endangered Species List 37 griz killings spark worry. By Cory Hatch. Jackson Hole News and Guide. Addition 4/10/2009. Rise in grizzly deaths topic of IGBT meeting. Associated Press.

  • Idaho Federal judge orders ESA review for Big Lost River whitefish

    Ralph Maughan

    Judge Lodge mandates a “status review” for rare whitefish. Major impacts expected if fish is listed- Judge orders protection review for Idaho fish. By Todd Dvorak. Associated Press Writer. Judge rules in favor of whitefish. By Jason Kauffman. Idaho Mountain Express. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service told to reconsider ESA listing for Mackay area fish…

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Edward Abbey

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Jim Fowler

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