Press Release
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New plan aims to reduce population by 60% to please elk hunters POCATELLO, Idaho – In an effort to inflate elk populations for commercial outfitters and hunters, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) hopes to kill 60 percent of the wolves in the Middle Fork area of central Idaho’s Frank Church River of…
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25 of America’s Last Wild Bison Trapped at Stephens Creek; 20 Shipped to Slaughter A wild bison is confined in Yellowstone’s Stephens Creek Trap National Park Service Photo Click HERE for Print Quality Version FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – February 12, 2014 Contacts: Dan Brister, Buffalo Field Campaign, 406-646-6506 GARDINER, MONTANA: Yellowstone National Park shipped 20…
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Bozeman, Mont.—Conservation groups entered into a settlement agreement today that will require the U.S. Sheep Experiment Station and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to prepare a new Biological Opinion before grazing domestic sheep this summer in southwest Montana. Cottonwood Environmental Law Center, Western Watersheds Project, Gallatin Wildlife Association, Native Ecosystems Council and Yellowstone Buffalo Foundation…
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Faced with looming court challenge, Idaho halts unprecedented program POCATELLO, ID — Faced with a looming deadline to defend its actions before a federal appeals court, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) announced this afternoon that it is halting its wolf extermination program in the Middle Fork region of the Frank Church-River of…
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POCATELLO, Idaho – A coalition of conservationists, represented by the non-profit environmental law firm Earthjustice, today asked a federal judge in Idaho to halt an unprecedented program by the U.S. Forest Service and Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) to exterminate two wolf packs deep within the largest forested wilderness area in the lower-48…
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Sign the petition: Petition | 2-Day Holiday Idaho Killing “Derby” Targets Wolves & Coyotes, Federal Agencies Ignore Laws re: Killing Contests on Federal Lands | Change.org. For Immediate Release: December 23, 2013 Conservationists Sue to Stop Wolf and Coyote Killing Contest on Public Lands Groups Challenge Federal Agency’s Failure to Regulate Highly Controversial Contest Pocatello,…
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For Immediate Release, September 23, 2013 Contact:Tierra Curry, Center for Biological Diversity, (928) 522-3681 Kylie Paul, Defenders of Wildlife, (406) 370-6979 Gary Macfarlane, Friends of the Clearwater, (208) 882-9755 Travis Bruner, Western Watersheds Project (208) 788-2290 Endangered Species Act Protection Sought for Northern Rockies Fisher Rare Forest Carnivore Threatened by Trapping, Habitat Loss MISSOULA,…
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Federal judge blocks megaloads from Clearwater-Lochsa Wild and Scenic corridor BOISE — A federal judge this morning temporarily blocked additional megaload shipments through the Clearwater National Forest, America’s first Wild and Scenic River corridor and the homeland of the Nez Perce people. Federal Judge B. Lynn Winmill’s injunction was issued as part of a lawsuit…