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Wyoming

  • Heavy snowfall sends elk onto the National Elk Refuge

    Ralph Maughan

    Heavy snowfall sends elk to refuge. By Cory Hatch. Jackson Hole Daily. It is shaping up to be a snowy winter in southern Idaho and Western Wyoming.

  • Two new cases of brucellosis in Wyoming.

    Ken Cole

    Park County bison tests positive for brucellosis By BOB MOEN – Associated Press. Herd tests positive for brucellosis By BRENNA BRAATEN – Cody Enterprise.

  • Tester To Chair Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus

    Ken Cole

    Western Democrats want to gut the Endangered Species Act Jon Tester, the Democratic Senator for Montana, is facing a tough re-election battle in 2012 which may hinge on the wolf issue. He is desperate to find a solution which allows the State of Montana to manage wolves and wants to get something passed in the…

  • Otter meeting with Interior secretary, other governors on wolves

    Ken Cole

    Salazar can’t just change the rules without an open, public process under NEPA. The governors of Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana are meeting with Ken Salazar in Denver on Monday to talk about wolves. It will be interesting to see what comes of this. Really, there are very few options for the Department of Interior short…

  • Judge sides with Wyoming in wolf case

    Ken Cole

    U.S. District Judge Alan Johnson Rules that USFWS was not justified in rejecting Wyoming’s woefully inadequate wolf management plan. Recall that Judge Molloy ruled in 2008 that the USFWS arbitrarily accepted Wyoming’s wolf management plan without justification after initially rejecting it. Specifically Molloy said that the USFWS “acted arbitrarily and capriciously when it approved Wyoming’s…

  • Bighorns transplanted to WY Seminoe Mountains doing well

    Ralph Maughan

    . . . and another transplant to this obscure mountain range planned- We’ve been following this for about a year now, and it’s good to hear good news on bighorn sheep because so much has been bad. Article on the transplants. By Jeff Gearino. Casper Star-Tribune in the Billings Gazette. Seminoe Mountains BLM photo

  • Wyoming Water Development Commission against proposed Green River dam

    Ralph Maughan

    Commission calls it “too expensive, unnecessary and bad for recreation and the environment”- This proposal is so obnoxious I couldn’t believe it was real the first time I heard about it. This is a world class fishing river and the reservoir would cut off the famed pronghorn migration route from the Red Desert to Grand…

  • Wyoming Wolf News from USFWS, Oct. 29, 2010

    Ralph Maughan

    Wyoming Weekly Wolf News Report Oct 18-29, 2010 Nine Yellowstone Park wolf packs had pups this year: Agate, Black Tail, Delta, Canyon, 636 group, Lamar, Madison, Molly, Bechler My other comment is to notice the small number of livestock losses in Wyoming this year.

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