Wildlife News
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Judge Donald Molloy has upheld Congress in the case involving the legislative rider to the 2011 Budget Bill which had the effect of delisting wolves in Idaho, Montana, and parts of Washington, Oregon, and Utah. He writes: “If I were not constrained by what I believe is binding precedent from the Ninth Circuit, and on-point…
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Kathie Lynch reports on bounty of summer life among the wolves, bison, elk, bears and vegetation of Yellowstone Park- Story copyright © Kathie Lynch 2011 There is only one word to describe the beauty of Yellowstone in summer: breathtaking! After winter’s world of eternal white, the colors of early summer’s palate leap at your eye–grass green,…
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H.R.1581 Bruce Babbit, former Secretary of the Interior in the Clinton Administration, claims that the wolf delisting rider was the wake-up call that brought him back into the foray on public land and wildlife issues. Now he’s taking aim at a piece of legislation that would capitalize on Congress’s slow action and open up greater…
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Mike Hudak interviews Retired USDA researcher Steve Monsen about livestock grazing’s impact to weed and Pinion-Juniper spread in the western United States: Retired USDA researcher Steve Monsen explains how overgrazing by cattle and sheep throughout the Great Basin, beginning in the mid-19th century and continuing to the present day, has initiated a cascade of environmental…
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Closed Process Highlights Need For Meaningful State Environmental Review, Public Involvement With the recent discovery of natural gas in southwest Idaho many residents are concerned about their local watersheds. They should be, fracking is an ugly business : Before 2005, regulation of fracking took place under the Safe Drinking Water Act. EPA was responsible for…
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Fiscal Year 2012 – House Interior-Environment Appropriations Bill – Part 3 Another provision of the House Interior-Environment Appropriations Bill would make it impossible for land management agencies to help bighorn sheep by reducing interaction with disease ridden domestic sheep if it might conceivably reduce livestock grazing. Because of the precedent set by the decision made by…
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Moscow, ID – Today, Friends of the Clearwater and WildEarth Guardians call into question how two different federal agencies count livestock losses attributed to wolves in the States of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. The livestock death losses figures are reported by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) show a remarkable magnitude of disparity from…
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Fiscal Year 2012 – House Interior-Environment Appropriations Bill – Part 2 In an another example of paying for tax cuts to billionaires with deregulation and spending cuts, the House Interior-Environment Appropriations Bill released yesterday, which limits judicial review of future wolf delisting rules in Wyoming and the Western Great Lakes, would also effectively gut the…