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Wolves and Livestock

  • Absence of losses to grizzlies prompts Defenders to spend more on proactive measures

    Ralph Maughan

    Because loss of livestock to grizzly bears has been so low, Defenders of Wildlife has free money to go further and act proactively. Here is a news release announcing this. Defenders of Wildlife Expands Proactive Predator Conflict Prevention Program. Grizzly compensation funds reallocated to minimize grizzly-related conflicts before they occur Statement by Jamie Rappaport Clark,…

  • Fencing, range riders, guard animals show some promise in safeguarding livestock

    Ralph Maughan

    Story by Mike Stark in the Billings Gazette. The same story in the Jackson Hole Star Tribune is “Ranchers get creative with Wolves,” but as I reported earlier the idea came from Montana FWP, Wildlife Services, and a USU graduate student who are doing this as a semi-controlled experiment. Non-traditional livestock operations will be tried…

  • 2006 Northern Rockies Wolf Report out. Media makes splash about wolf population growth

    Ralph Maughan

    The Rocky Mountain Wolf Recovery 2006 Interagency Annual Report is out and the mainstream media are playing the story as all about continued wolf population growth and more dead livestock than before. I haven’t had time to read much of it yet, but some of the MSM statistics seem a bit suspicious to me, so…

  • Scientists' take on Wyoming Elk Feedlot – Wolf Scare

    Brian Ertz

    Perhaps many of you have heard of the WGFDs quick fire-off of the news release below last week.  The argument is that wolves are pushing/disrupting elk off of Wyoming’s large elk feedlots, brought about to entice elk away from cattle in an effort to prevent the spread of Brucellosis from elk to cattle.  We’ve seen Montana…

  • IDFG Wolf Management Powerpoint

    Brian Ertz

    Here we have the slides from an IDFG  powerpoint presentation given by Steve Nadeau – IDFG’s large carnivore manager.  The presentation lays out data regarding wolf numbers, distribution throughout the state, and some basic tidbits which may help to better understand how Idaho intends to manage wolves. The presentation illustrates the intention to split up the state into management ‘Zones’ based on biological and ‘sociological’ concerns which will justify…

  • Tests show vexing Montana predator was a domestic wolf

    Ralph Maughan

    Although Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks took a lot of heat last year for the mystery canid that killed lots of livestock for many months in NE Montana, it turns out it was a domestic wolf that someone turned loose. Story by Mike Stark in the Billings Gazette. The fact that they were able to…

  • Yet another removal order issued for a rare Mexican wolf

    Ralph Maughan

    Story in the Las Cruces Sun-News. AP

  • Another Mexican wolf alpha to bite the dust

    Ralph Maughan

    By Jean Ossorio. The alpha male of the San Mateo pack–one of the handful of breeding pairs (six or seven, depending on how you interpret the definition in the Final Rule) at the end of 2006–has been slapped with a removal order by the USFWS for a third livestock depredation within 365 days. The rest…

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