Yellowstone
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A new resource page for the case Western Watersheds Project, et al. v. Salazar I hope this new page will prove to be another site for good information on efforts to compell the Park Service and Forest Service to stop cooperating in the bison slaughter and eventually allow a significant number of bison to live…
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IGBC has hard time understanding Judge Molloy ruled against them not because of grizzly mortality, but lack of food for grizzly in the area- Perhaps the bear population could withstand more deaths; and, hey why not acquiesce with what is already happening? Bear bureaucrats could call that “adaptive management.” However, Judge Molloy didn’t relist the…
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October is always bad; this year worse. Even so, NW Montana grizzly mortality is low compared to that in Greater Yellowstone. It’s pretty clear to me that the Yellowstone grizzly needed to be put back on the list, just as Judge Molloy did. Fortunately, grizzly deaths are down this year in the Greater Yellowstone. Grizzly…
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Game managers may make changes in hunting season for next year- Wow! The stories about the shooting of the Park wolves who happened to be just north of the Park keep coming. This is another one. This one today is by Brett French in the Billings Gazette. Actually we don’t know that this hasn’t happened…
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Results of the Yellowstone Grizzly Coordinating Committee meeting Jackson, WY- I think we see the real reason they are upset that the judge relisted the grizzly bear in this statement: “Fremont County [Wyoming] Commissioner Pat Hickerson echoed Schwartz and several other commissioners when he said grizzly bears have begun to expand into areas where their…
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Until now only limited parts of the state have been open of wolf hunting- Now many hunters will be looking for wolves statewide along with many elk and deer hunts- Hunters being given chance to manage wolves. By Rob Chaney. The Missoulian Montana’s wolf quota of 75 is small compared to Idaho’s 220, despite Idaho’s…
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Bear shot next to gut pile near Ditch Creek, WY was one of the famous cubs of GB399. There has already been one post on this, long debates, and one person removed from posting over this incident. The dead cub (no longer a cub when shot) was confirmed as one of 399’s three cubs. Story.…
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Rest of state opens up as well as Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness which had an emergency closure- The quota is 75, of which12 have already been killed. Montana resumes big-game wolf hunt on Sunday. By the Associated Press. Although only 3 more wolves can be taken in the Wilderness area just north of the YNP boundary, if…