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  • Crosshairs on Yellowstone

    Ralph Maughan

    Decaying Management In America’s National Park System- Yellowstone Park is loved by millions of Americans and many more around the world. It is the original model for not just America’s National Park System, but for national parks in other countries.  By “system,” it is meant the national parks are established and managed by a common…

  • National Park Service wants wired Park System. Give control over it to concessionaires?

    Ralph Maughan

    Good or bad idea? PEER doesn’t like it- Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) has reported in a news release  that the National Park Service  looks to be supporting a push by The National Park Hospitality Association, a trade group for Park concessionaires, to greatly increase cell and internet connectedness in the national parks. PEER…

  • Legislative effort in Montana to repeal all free roaming bison protection

    Ralph Maughan

    HB249 would allow Montana landowners to kill bison for any reason- 2012, and it looks like 2013, is shaping up to be another year of livestock interests trying to repeal a generation or two of progress in the management of wildlife. Alan Doane,  a Montana Republican legislator, has a bill that would allow landowners to…

  • Local Montana Judge: wolf hunting and trapping will remain open next to Yellowstone Park

    Ralph Maughan

    No relief from Montana’s imposition on Park wildlife- Year after year the state of Montana has pummelled Yellowstone Park’s wildlife right at its northern boundary. They have slaughtered thousands of bison that stepped outside the Park and now decimated Yellowstone’s already naturally declining wolf population. Today a Montana state district judge strengthened the earlier ruling (injunction)…

  • Local judge reopens wolf hunting and trapping right next to Yellowstone Park

    Ralph Maughan

    (update) Judge says emergency closure by Montana wildlife commissioners with no public hearing might offend Montana’s  Constitution and might deprive the public of the legal right to harvest wolves- In a shock to wolf conservationists and to people who think Yellowstone Park is a special place, an American icon, local Montana Nels Swandal  reopened hunting and…

  • Wyoming’s first wolf hunt soon to close (update)

    Ralph Maughan

    Hunt will probably end below quota; but many more wolves killed in state’s wolves-are-just-vermin-zone- Wyoming first wolf hunt ends Dec. 31. 2012.  Wyoming opted for a much less ambitious/less-destructive-to-wolves hunt compared to neighboring Idaho and Montana. Unlike its neighbors, Wyoming has a wolf maximum kill quota and a relatively short hunt. However, Wyoming also has…

  • All Yellowstone Park wolf GPS collared wolves were killed in the wolf hunt.

    Ralph Maughan

    Montana and Wyoming hunts ruin Park’s study of how many elk wolves eat, wolf movements, pack territories- While the official stance of Yellowstone Park is that the three state wolf hunt that has been going on along the Park’s boundaries has not jeopardized the Park’s wolf population (now down to 81 wolves), it certainly killed the…

  • Montana puts closure around Yellowstone Park for the rest of the year’s wolf hunt-trapping season

    Ralph Maughan

    Closure around Yellowstone, no more wolves will be hunted, none will be trapped- In the much anticipated Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission meeting today, the Commission voted 4-1 to close a buffer around the Montana part of Yellowstone National Park to hunting and the upcoming wolf trapping season. Commission Chair Bob Ream said the…

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