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Predator Control

  • Helping the feds: USDA Wildlife Services benefits from increased state funding

    Ralph Maughan

    Here Jeff Gearino describes how pleased Wildlife Services is to get this big boost from the state. Now they can use the federal money for other predator control projects. Helping the feds: USDA Wildlife Services benefits from increased state funding. By Jeff Gearino. Jackson Hole Star Tribune. It’s not a business for the squeamish. Tools…

  • Local [Wyoming] predator boards get boost

    Ralph Maughan

    In this article Jeff Gearino explains how the increasing funding will allow local predator boards to expand killing to more species — skunks, starlings, and ravens. Somehow these species are menacing soda ash production in Wyoming and are a threat to the Jackson Hole airport. There are already killing a lot of coyotes from the…

  • Predator control for Wyoming wildlife stirs debate

    Ralph Maughan

    Here is another story on the big jump in Wyoming predator control money. This one focuses on predators killing “good wildlife.” Ironically, this story comes just a week or so after it was revealed that Wyoming Game and Fish officials think there are too many “good wildlife” (elk, deer, and pronghorn) at the present, and…

  • Kill or be killed (about Wyoming predator control)

    Ralph Maughan

    Reporter Jeff Gearino and others have written a series of articles in the last few days about the $6-million the Wyoming legislature just put into state-funded predator control. That is a sudden infusion of big money, and I wonder what it’s really about? This is money on top of that appropriated by Congress for the…

  • Check out this paper on carnivore-livestock conflicts.

    Ralph Maughan

    Carnivore-Livestock Conflicts: Effects of Subsidized Predator Control and Economic Correlates on the Sheep Industry. Conservation Biology. post 1134

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