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Delisting

  • Rocky Barker: Wolf battle heats up in the next few weeks

    Ralph Maughan

    Wolf battle heats up in the next few weeks. This is Rocky’s blog today in the Idaho Statesman. It summarizes the legal situation.

  • Montana approves wolf hunting season

    Ralph Maughan

    This was expected, and it isn’t really the news. Story in the Casper Star Tribune. Montana approves wolf hunting season. By Eve Byron. Lee News Service The news is that Montana rejected things like trapping wolves (a grave danger to grizzly bears and dogs) and the use of artificial lures, baits, scents, electronic calls, aerial…

  • Western wolf delisting looms

    Ralph Maughan

    This article says it may be Feb. 28, but I just heard it will be tomorrow. Story in the Idaho Mountain Express. I see what might appear to be two rival strategies emerging among conservation groups to deal with delisting. In fact, I think this might be a good idea even though it will leave…

  • Montana FWP meets Feb. 20 to set details of wolf hunting season

    Ralph Maughan

    Despite all the awful decisions at a general level made by the federal government and Idaho, Wyoming and Montana regarding their management of wolves after delisting, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is meeting in Helena on Feb . 20 to set the details of the hunting seasons, including wolves. The FWP Commission could (I stress…

  • Groups file lawsuit against the new 10j rule

    Ralph Maughan

    As expected, a number of conservation groups have filed a lawsuit in the Montana federal district court to set aside the new 10j rule on wolves in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming that was just published. They are Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance, Defenders of Wildlife, Natural Resources Defense Council,  Sierra Club, Center for Biological Diversity, Humane…

  • The Still-in-Danger Gray Wolf (NYT editorial)

    Ralph Maughan

    The New York Times continues to be excellent in cutting through the propaganda issued by the government about it’s new 10j rule on wolves, as well as the forthcoming delisting. The Still-in-Danger Gray Wolf. Opinion of the New York Times. 

  • 13 years on, wolves [in Idaho] have changed friends and foes alike

    Ralph Maughan

    This is a great story, emphasizing the positive changes for wolves in Idaho since they were reintroduced, but of particular interest it tells about one of our regular posters, Lynne Stone, a women who really does run with wolves, or at least after them — her efforts to keep them alive by keeping them out…

  • The new 10j rule is out in final form.

    Ralph Maughan

    Today the new 10j rule governing the “experimental, non-essential” population of wolves in most of Idaho, all of Wyoming, and most of Montana was released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. This is what will govern management of wolves even if delisting is set aside. From the standpoint of those who want more than…

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