Yellowstone
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Bozeman naturalist’s notes on the event- There has been a lot of discussion on the blog of the speech Jim Beer’s gave Sunday May 16th, 2010 at the Gran Tree Inn in Bozeman, from 1 PM to 5 PM. The speech was sponsored by Friends of the Northern Yellowstone Elk Herd, which has been complaining…
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Jim McDonald’s Account of Montana’s DOL pushing bison into Yellowstone Park- This is the time of year when Montana’s Department of Livestock pushes bison back into the Park for no real reason except to demonstrate that they run things in the area. Activist Jim McDonald has written a long essay on a blog describing the…
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British Painter Julie Askew Ventures Into The Dale Of Wild Wolves and Goes ‘Eye to Eye’ Rather than post the story about the ignorant Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks new wolf quota for 2010, I am running this story and artwork by an English painter published in the latest Wildlife Art Journal. Todd…
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Bangs says recovery population goal for wolves in the Northern Rockies was changed- Anti-wolf folks argue that a population goal deal (or promise) was violated by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service when it did not delist wolves in the Idaho, Montana and Wyoming as soon as the states had 300 wolves in total. Project leader,…
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Kathie Lynch provides us with another detailed update on the wolves of northern Yellowstone Park. – – – – – – Yellowstone field notes. April 10 -18, 2010. By © Kathie Lynch. During my Spring Break in Yellowstone National Park (April 10-18, 2010), I managed to see at least one wolf every day, but it wasn’t…
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Elk in Wyoming are doing well, even when you look at individual herds- The Jackson Hole News and Guide April 28 reported their analysis of the 2010 Big Game Management Summary of Wyoming Game and Fish. This article is not on-line, so I will summarize. The annual census reported almost 103,000 elk in the 27…
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Lawsuit Seeks to Secure Public Access to Bison and Prevent Privatization of Calves FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – March 23, 2010 Contacts: Stephany Seay, Buffalo Field Campaign 406-646-0070, bfc-media@wildrockies.org Summer Nelson, Western Watersheds Project, 406-830-3099, summer@westernwatersheds.org Glenn Hockett, Gallatin Wildlife Association, 406-586-1729, glhockett@bresnan.net GALLATIN COUNTY, MONTANA: Four conservation organizations filed a legal challenge today against the…
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Both elk and bison currently stable- Yesterday I did a long post on the stabilization of the elk population on Yellowstone’s northern range, but I didn’t mention another important development, the recovery of the bison population to a bit over 3000 animals. Growth between 2008 and 9 has been slow. In the past years, the…