Wildlife Management
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Predetermined outcome? Brian Kelly, the new director of the USFWS office in Boise, states that Idaho’s Lolo Zone 10(j) wolf killing proposal has been put on hold so that the agency can conduct a NEPA review. This is good news but I’m betting that they will try to figure out how to get out of…
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Advocates for the West‘s Laurie Rule (best known for her esteemed success in the Payette National Forest on behalf of bighorn sheep) has filed another brief on behalf of Western Watersheds Project & The Wolf Recovery Foundation’s lawsuit against Wildlife Services’ wolf control activities in Idaho (complaint & associated filings). This lawsuit asks the court to stop Wildlife…
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News release from Idaho Fish and Game reporting on the result of Governor Otter’s abandonment of wolf management- US Fish and Wildlife Service takes over wolf management in Idaho.
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Jon Marvel sees two ways to get cows and sheep to stop grazing on public lands: Politics and litigation. He chooses the latter. Dennis Higman does a profile on Jon for NewWest. Fortunate for all of us who care about western public lands and wildlife, the degree to which ranchers and their politician lap-dogs whine…
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A guest article by Mike Settell On June 26th, 2010, I inspected the South Fork of Mink Creek to document conditions of the Box Canyon road culvert that was being plugged by beaver. Like many roads throughout the west, the South Fork Road parallels the creek and so problems with the road-creek interface are, at best,…
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Agency’s Budget Shrouded from Public WildEarth Guardians has assembled and is making public statistics regarding “Wildlife Service’s” wildlife slaughter last year. WildEarth Guardians Press Release 10/7/10 WASHINGTON, DC – According to records released today by WildEarth Guardians, “Wildlife Services,” the ironically-named branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, killed more than four million…
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The ongoing assault on the Sagebrush Sea claims another victim: Jackrabbits Another animal most commonly considered a pest and valued by the western Cowboy “Custom & Culture” for little more than target-practice, jackrabbits, are disappearing from the landscape: Jack Rabbit Populations Are Under Study In Washington State – OPB News Larson says both black-tail and white-tail jack…
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Grazing and slaughter threaten the viability of bison and other sensitive species- The US Forest Service and the National Park Service are violating the law by not allowing bison the use of public lands. The grazing allotments provide the excuse the Montana Department of Livestock wants for their annual abuse of buffalo inside and outside…