Wyoming

  • Wyoming’s first wolf hunt soon to close (update)

    Ralph Maughan

    Hunt will probably end below quota; but many more wolves killed in state’s wolves-are-just-vermin-zone- Wyoming first wolf hunt ends Dec. 31. 2012.  Wyoming opted for a much less ambitious/less-destructive-to-wolves hunt compared to neighboring Idaho and Montana. Unlike its neighbors, Wyoming has a wolf maximum kill quota and a relatively short hunt. However, Wyoming also has…

  • Yet another collared, and very famous Yellowstone wolf killed in Wyoming’s hunt (updated)

    Ken Cole

    Wolf “06”, the alpha female of the Yellowstone’s Lamar Canyon Pack has been shot in Wyoming by a hunter. Wolf “06” was probably the most famous wolf in Yellowstone and had been viewed by thousands of Park visitors.  She was also part of the ongoing study of wolves that has been conducted in Yellowstone since…

  • Large Greater Yellowstone Grizzly Mortality in 2012, but Gov’t Agency says pop grew anyway

    Ralph Maughan

    At least 50 dead griz, but population said to grow by 15- The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem stretches over about 18-million acres and into 3 states. Grizzly bears inhabit about 2/3 of that to some degree, hardly being confined to the smallish 2.2 million acres of Yellowstone National Park. Grizzly bear numbers have been growing for…

  • Finally, wildlife overpasses built at Trappers Point, WY to conserve 6000 year old pronghorn migration route

    Ralph Maughan

    After years of talk, action- The Wildlife News, like other local and even national media, has reported frequently about the beauty and the threat to the lengthy  biannual pronghorn migration route from Jackson Hole to the Wyoming high desert and back. It’s not like nothing was done to conserve this threatened spectacle, it’s that nothing…

  • Transition. Here is the final federal Wyoming wolf news update report

    Ralph Maughan

    Wolves now under Wyoming control and they are already being shot in state’s first wolf hunting season- Mike Jimenez, who has managed wolves in Wyoming for U.S. government for years now with a slowly growing wolf population and minimal livestock depredations, has written his last wolf news report. Here it is converted to a PDF…

  • Groups to Litigate Wyoming Wolf Delisting

    Ken Cole

    Today, several groups filed a notice of intent (NOI) to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) over its decision to delist wolves in Wyoming. Delisting comes after USFWS accepted the minor changes made to the Wyoming wolf management plan which allows wolves to be killed by anyone, for any reason, and by any method…

  • New wildfire grows rapidly just south of Jackson, WY

    Ralph Maughan

    Human-caused fire just one ridge south of Cache Creek! Revised on 9/11 afternoon. All of the mountains immediately south of Jackson, WY have been closed due to the Little Horsethief Fire Horsethief Canyon Fire that started from an illegal private trash fire late Saturday and now is over 1500 2600 acres just south of the…

  • As expected, U.S. gov’t delists the wolves of Wyoming

    Ralph Maughan

    Conservation groups angry; Wyoming wolf population delisted- Wyoming politicians were the ones most opposed to the restoration of wolves to the American Northern Rocky mountains.  They filed numerous lawsuits against the program, which they generally lost. Now they have won. The Obama Administration has delisted wolves in Wyoming, and a hunting season beginning Oct. 1 will begin…

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