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  • Do Elk Feedgrounds Violate Public Trust?

    Ralph Maughan

    Do Elk Feedgrounds Violate Public Trust? By Deb Donahue.* Wyomingfile.com This is a fine legal analysis of Wyoming’s elk feedlots. ” Litigation is generally an ineffective way to manage wildlife. But litigation over the feedgrounds seems inevitable, and it may be the only way to ensure that western Wyoming’s wildlife get a fair shake.” –…

  • Wyoming Elk Feedlots kept open a month longer than average

    Brian Ertz

    Wyoming’s Elk feedlots were kept open a month longer than usual. Managers of the National Elk Refuge are looking to expand the hunt and irrigate the feedlot saying that doing so will disperse the animals, reducing the disease potential. No mention of natural predators or preservation/restoration of the herds’ natural winter range. Alfalfa pellets. Winter…

  • Oregon prohibition on shooter bulls goes into effect next year

    Ralph Maughan

    Oregon is cracking down a bit on shooting elk in an enclosure. Idaho seems to be the Western state that is relentlessly backward on this odious practice. Prohibition on shooter bulls goes into effect next year. The East Oregonian

  • Close Elk Feedgrounds Before It's Too Late

    Ralph Maughan

    Close Elk Feedgrounds Before It’s Too Late. By Brodie Farquhar. Wyomingfile.com

  • Don't Help….Yellowstone geotourism map

    Brian Ertz

    National Geographic Society’s Center for Sustainable Destinations, in partnership with several conservation and tourism organizations (click here to see full list ), most notably Wyoming Travel and Tourism have launched a giant “geotourism” program for the Greater Yellowstone Region (click here for the main page of the project website). The effort is intended to “celebrate…

  • GYC alert to stop creation of yet another!! Wyoming elk feedlot

    Ralph Maughan

    Good for the Greater Yellowstone Coalition on this! This alert gives the information and allows you to send an easy eletter against yet another disease-spreading elk feedlot in the Gros Ventre River drainage (of course, your completely personalized letter is always better).

  • Heavy snow breaking plows in Yellowstone

    Ralph Maughan

    Note the article below is wrong about the opening date of most of the Park’s interior roads. It is not March 2, but April 20. I am at Yellowstone Park right now. It is April 11, and the snow on the Park’s northern range is deeper than I have ever seen it by far, even…

  • Central Idaho elk and deer doing fine in presence of wolves

    Ralph Maughan

    Dr. Jim Peek presented data at the Chico wolf conference showing that the elk and deer population is doing fine in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness. He examined population and hunter success trends in 4 key hunting units before and after wolf restoration. Currently there are 105-119 wolves in the 4 units,…

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