Wyoming Wolves
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“Wolves are causing a variety of problems on state elk feedgrounds, from spooking the elk and causing them to move from one area to another to killing work animals,” the Wyoming Game and Fish Department said. From Billings Gazette News Services. Read Article. The entire premise of the article is wrong. There should not be…
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At the last minute, the Wyoming passed a wolf bill. The bill would give the governor power to negotiate boundaries where the wolf would be protected somewhat in the state. Because the governor has this generic power anyway, it’s hard to say if this bill has any practical meaning. Pete Jorgensen, D-Jackson, voted against the…
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The first public hearing on the delisting of the wolves in the Northern Rockies was held Feb . 27 in Cheyenne, and it was dominated by people who oppose delisting. This was the only Wyoming hearing planned, but a second hearing at Cody was recently announced under pressure from Wyoming’s lone US Representative Barbara Cubin,…
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Folks might be getting confused as to all the wolf bills that have been introduced into the current Wyoming legislature, move and bit, and then die. Now another one is moving in the Wyoming state senate. This is the last week of the legislative session. This, like the others, is most likely to be rejected…
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I’m a bit confused about what this means, however. Story in the Casper Star Tribune. By Whitney Royster.
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Political scientists call them “symbolic issues,” as opposed to tangible issues. Symbolic issues have become more and more prominent in recent years in the United States, not just in Wyoming. Such issues that evoke non-economic values eclipse economic issues — the issues that really affect the material welfare of individual people and the nation. This…
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This article is from the Casper Star Tribune. By Jared Miller. Giving the standoff between the USFWS and Wyoming, the current wolf situation with the federal government continuing to do all the wolf management in most of NW Wyoming, and Wyoming yelling about wolves and the federal government, could go on indefinitely. Wyoming’s political oligarchy…
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Wyo-fed wolf talks fail. By Whitney Royster. Casper Star Tribune. Story in the Jackson Hole News and Guide. Wolf Decision ‘Political’ The US Fish and Wildlife Service has refused to let Wyoming kill wolves just because the governor says the wolves are “hurting big game herds.” Governor Dave Freudenthal (Dem.) has given many contradictory explanations…