Wildlife Management

  • Reminder: Comments due today on Wildlife Services Idaho Wolf EA.

    Ken Cole

    Wolf management plan examines killing of pups and sterilization of wolves. The Wildlife Services issued an Environmental Assessment at the beginning of August. Today is the last day to comment on the EA which calls for killing pups which have been orphaned by their control actions, sterilization of wolves, and increased killing of wolves in…

  • Spread of Bighorn Sheep Pneumonia Continues

    Brian Ertz

    It’s been a bad year for bighorn sheep in Montana. Spread of Bighorn Sheep Pneumonia Continues – New West While we see an increasing amount of media attention that bighorns are dying of disease, unfortunately, with this article, there is a familiar omission of context regarding a likely source of disease for bighorns in general;…

  • Soda Butte Grizzly Attack Report

    Brian Ertz

    Here is the Soda Butte Grizzly Attack Report Summary: In the early morning hours of 28 July 2010, an adult female grizzly bear accompanied by 3 yearlings attacked 3 separate people in 3 different tents in the Soda Butte Campground.  The initial attack was inflicted on Mr. Ronald Singer at approximately 0200 hours, who was…

  • State wildlife officials had no idea what a hunt would mean for then delisted wolves

    Brian Ertz

    A couple of years ago, Steve Nadeau answered a question I had about the impact that a public hunt would have to wolf populations.  At that time, as the state was posturing for “competent manager” status, Nadeau spent much effort trying to reassure advocates that state managers had a good idea what effect a hunt…

  • Wolf Recovery Coordinator Recalls the Call of the Wild

    Brian Ertz

    Roy Heberger, former coordinator of the wolf recovery program in Idaho, writes of his experiences with wolf recovery while with the US Fish & Wildlife Service. Wolf Recovery Coordinator Recalls the Call of the Wild – Roy Heberger – WWPblog Before my retirement from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) in July 2000, I directed…

  • Wolves and Oil

    Brian Ertz

    Another great article by George Wuerthner: Wolves and Oil – NewWest Just as the financial interests of the judges in the Gulf Coast region may distort and bias their ability to make fair judicial decisions regarding issues surrounding the oil industry, the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks agency has a similar financial conflict…

  • Idaho Fish and Game/Wildlife Services targets wolf and her 7 pups 8 months after last depredation.

    Ken Cole

    Blue Bunch Pack near McCall and New Meadows hasn’t killed livestock since October and all other members have been killed It has been nearly 8 months since any member of southwest Idaho’s Blue Bunch Pack killed any livestock yet, on March, 16, members of the Blue Bunch Pack were killed by Wildlife Services under an…

  • The Ethics of Killing Large Carnivores

    Ken Cole

    Is “bagging a trophy” really an amoral choice? This is a very interesting article that discusses the very core of issues we discuss on this blog.  I thoroughly recommend that you read it as I think it represents how I feel about wildlife, and more specifically large carnivore, management today.  The proponents of trophy hunting…

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