Press Release
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Below is a press release of interest to our readers. Jackson, Wyoming: Wyoming Game and Fish Department recently reported that the deadly Chronic Wasting Disease was detected in a female mule deer found dead near the Pinedale airport, about eight miles southwest of the Fall Creek feedground. This is the first case of CWD found…
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HAILEY, Idaho – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services program – which kills thousands of predators across the country annually – announced today it has abandoned use of M-44 cyanide bombs in Idaho in response to a petition filed by 19 conservation and wildlife organizations two weeks ago. In a letter transmitted to conservation…
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For Immediate Release March 21, 2017 Contact: Erik Molvar, Western Watersheds Project, (307) 399-7910, emolvar@westernwatersheds.org Brooks Fahy, Predator Defense, (541) 520-6003, brooks@predatordefense.org Talasi Brooks, Advocates for the West, (208) 342-7024 x208, tbrooks@advocateswest.org Pet-killing “Cyanide Bomb” Placed Illegally by Wildlife Services Agency Promised Public in 2016 that it would stop placing them on Public Lands BOISE, Ida. — The cyanide bomb…
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Cruel, Unethical Competitions Stopped for Last Two Years BOISE, Idaho— The Federal District Court of Idaho today approved a settlement agreement between six conservation groups and the Bureau of Land Management ensuring public notice of any wildlife killing contests on BLM-managed public lands near Salmon, Idaho. In 2014 a vocal anti-wolf group — ironically called Idaho…
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LARAMIE, Wyo. – The public lands management agencies announced the grazing fee for federal allotments today, which the federal government has decreased to a mere $1.87 per cow and her calf (or 5 sheep) per month, known as an Animal Unit Month, or AUM. “This has got to be the cheapest all-you-can-eat buffet deal in the…
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In Victory for Conservation Groups, Court Orders Better Protections Before Reinstating Grazing Permits PORTLAND, Ore.— Conservation groups scored a victory in federal court Tuesday on behalf of the Oregon spotted frog, which is protected as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act. The court found that the U.S. Forest Service’s allowance of grazing on the 68,000-acre Chemult Pasture,…
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PORTLAND, Ore. – Western Watersheds Project, a nonprofit environmental group, has launched a legal challenge to a management plan for five National Wildlife Refuges in the Klamath Basin of Oregon and California. The lawsuit, filed last week in Oregon, cites failures by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect sage grouse and rare native…
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Idaho Must Destroy Data Obtained From Illegal Elk and Wolf Collaring POCATELLO, Idaho – A federal judge today ruled that the U.S. Forest Service illegally authorized the Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) to conduct approximately 120 helicopter landings to place radio collars on elk in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness last…
