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  • Camp Creek Elk Feedground 2014: A Valley of Death

    Lloyd Dorsey

    Lethal foot rot on a crowded Wyoming elk feedground- In late April, 2014, travelers on U.S. Highway 191 along the Hoback River south of Jackson Hole reported seeing staggering, emaciated elk and elk carcasses. Just out of the public’s view, in nearby Camp Creek, is an 80-acre elk feedground where the Wyoming Game and Fish Department feeds hay to…

  • Conservationists sue over ‘incidental take’ of grizzlies in Grand Teton N. P.

    Ralph Maughan

    Western Watersheds and Sierra Club say the ‘incidental take’ of 4 bears is wrongly based on an “arbitrary and capricious” analysis by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service- News Release Washington, DC – Conservation groups have filed a legal challenge against two federal agencies for approving the killing of four grizzly bears, a threatened species,…

  • Idaho wolf report for 2014 released. Wolf pop. increases

    Ralph Maughan

    Number of wolves in state increases; livestock loss remains low- The estimated number of wolves in Idaho increased from 684 at the end of 2013 to 770 at the end of 2014. This 2013 figure has been retroactively revised from that presented to the public in April of 2014. These data are in the 2014…

  • Just north of Yellowstone, bighorn fall to pneumonia

    Ralph Maughan

    Is arrogant ranching to blame? After many articles here in TWN this year, and elsewhere, about the growing pneumonia epidemic in the bighorn sheep herd just north of Yellowstone Park continues, now 40% of the bighorn are dead. More bighorn are sick. Details in Yellowstone Gate. Now, there is little to stop the disease from…

  • Do you have some interesting wildlife news. March 24, 2015

    Ralph Maughan

    It is time to create a new page of “Interesting Wildlife News.” Please put your wildlife news in the comments below. Do not post copyrighted material, and here is the link to the “old” news of March 13, 2015.

  • Conservationists Protest Disease-spreading Elk Feeding in the Gros Ventre

    Ralph Maughan

    Feeding continues even as chronic wasting disease moves closer- Jackson, WY – Yesterday afternoon, a coalition of four conservation groups filed formal objections to the Bridger-Teton National Forest’s recent decision approving an elk feeding ground in Wyoming’s Gros Ventre Valley. They are Western Watersheds Project, Wilderness Watch, Wyoming Chapter of Sierra Club, and the Gallatin Wildlife Association. The…

  • One of the last cougar-maiming, Colorado poachers sentenced

    Ralph Maughan

    Do they come much worse than this in U.S. poaching? Nicholaus Rodgers, an assistant hunting guide, was fond of capturing cougars and bobcats and deliberately injuring them before releasing them. Then he would take hunting clients to the field to make it easy for them to kill the wounded animals. The clients may or may…

  • Have you seen some interesting wildlife news? March 13, 2015 edition

    Ralph Maughan

    Please put your new news in the comments below. Do not post copyrighted material. Here is the link to the “old” news.

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