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Wyoming Wolves

  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service makes another 2006 wolf pop. estimate

    Ralph Maughan

    This is the second wolf population estimate this year. The official final figures will be released about next March or April 2006. The estimate is for wolves in the 3-state Northern Rockies “experimental, non-essential” wolf population area. That means Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. Yellowstone National Park is mostly in Wyoming, but part is in Montana…

  • Wild Bill: The greatest hunting controversy of them all [wolf hunting]

    Ralph Maughan

    At New West, Bill Schneider wrote an interesting column on the likihood of wolf hunting in the future in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. There have been a lot of thoughtful responses, especially from Robert Hoskins, who is a regular poster here.  The Greatest Hunting Controversy of Them All. New West by Bill Schneider.

  • "Feds assure grizzly progress"

    Ralph Maughan

    “SUNDANCE — Depending on how potential litigation plays out, management of the grizzly bear could be back in the hands of state officials — and the bear itself back in the gunsights of hunters — by 2008.” That’s progress? It seems return to state management of endangered or threatened species always means “now we get…

  • Wyoming G&F chief: Wolves threaten hunting (for sure, or well maybe not right now)

    Ralph Maughan

    The article is in today’s Jackson Hole Star-Tribune. The Game and Fish Commission had a big meeting in Sundance, Wyoming, Thursday and they commanded all the wolf biologists to attend. Read the first three paragraphs of the story about the meeting. In them “G&F Chief” Terry Cleveland contradicts himself three times. P1. He says so…

  • Park County (WY) seeks to intervene in Wyoming wolf case

    Ralph Maughan

    Story. Wyoming is suing the federal government again, trying to get the courts to tell the USFWS that a sow’s ear is really a silk purpose. Every time time Wyoming does this, Park County’s Attorney Bryan Skoric demands that Park County be given the legal status of “intervenor.” Since this is a legal slam dunk,…

  • Wyoming goes back to court over USFWS rejection of its wolf management plan

    Ralph Maughan

    Wyoming’s wolf conservation plan has now been rejected twice by USFWS, mostly because it in effect limits wolves in Wyoming to Yellowstone National Park, which Wyoming hopes will maintain the mininum number of wolf packs required for recovery in the state. Granted the Wyoming plan would allow wolves to wander as “trophy big game” animals…

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