Wildlife Management
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It died of birthing problems Last week there was a big story about how wolves had killed a cow in the foothills above Eagle, Idaho, which most of you probably know is just west of Boise. Well, Carter Niemeyer, – the Montana western supervisor for Wildlife Services from 1975-1990 and the Wildlife Services Montana wolf…
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Here is an excerpt from Carter Niemeyer’s “Wolfer,” a book that is generating a lot of thought and discussion- From New West. An Excerpt from “Wolfer: A Memoir.” By Carter Niemeyer.
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You too can hunt bison in fenced wildlife management areas. The Montana Department of Fish Wildlife and Parks is floating a plan to move the last remaining quarantined bison to State owned wildlife management areas. Good thing right? Not so fast, they would be fenced in and not allowed to roam freely on the landscape.…
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Drops gassing of pups in their dens and sterilization but continues heavy handed killing of wolves. Public Comments accepted until January 3, 2011 In anticipation of Monday’s federal court hearing of a case brought by Western Watersheds Project, Wildlife Services has revised its Idaho Wolf Environmental Assessment. While the new EA drops gassing of wolf…
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Calls recent Montana report “misleading”. Carter Niemeyer’s recent book “Wolfer” described, in great detail, the inner workings of Wildlife Services for whom he worked as their Montana western supervisor from 1975-1990 and as their Montana wolf specialist for the following 10 years until he took a post in Idaho as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife…
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Unbelievably the plan was opposed by Wildlife Services. Plan to ban trapping near residential areas in Washoe is rejected The Reno Gazette-Journal.
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Feds Can Withhold GPS Data on Wolf Attacks. Courthouse News Service
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Feds still looking for a cooperating, non-Idaho agency- Personally, I’d rather see the federal government manage them in Idaho. They are doing it in Wyoming, and the wolf population there is growing slowly, livestock losses are stable or declining, and every elk unit its above the population “target” in Wyoming. In Idaho, before Idaho Fish…