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A fight is brewing over domestic sheep grazing in bighorn sheep habitat in Wyoming. The Biodiversity Conservation Alliance filed a lawsuit last year to protect the small Encampment herd of bighorn sheep from coming into contact with disease ridden domestic sheep which would likely kill the entire herd if contact between the two species were…
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Some recent stories about wildlife certainly deserve to be mentioned, and with a link if possible. Trap set for wolf gets a cougar instead, then a Park employee- It was set on the Glacier National Park boundary, and a cougar stepped on it and was found caught by a Park Service employee. The cougar was…
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Here is our third edition of interesting wildlife news for the year 2013. Please post your wildlife news stories and your comments in the open thread below. You can access the previous edition (Jan. 23, 2013) of “Interesting Wildlife News” here.
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Study: “The impact of free-ranging cats on wildlife in the United States-“ The Wildlife News has reported earlier on the large number of birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibian, the common cat, felis domesticus, kills. Because cats are so highly regarded by many as pets, a look at their side effects on wildlife makes for intense…
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Is the fabled, but never found, creature making weird noises in the Blue Mtns. east of Pendleton? The Wildlife News has discussed the matter of Bigfoot from time to time. Hint: search. There are often things that look, and this time sound strange in the outdoors, and this time some think it is Bigfoot or…
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Last week Rep. Ken Ivory, R of West Jordan, Utah, came north to Idaho, up out of the smog (worst in the country), to tell Idaho’s lawmakers that they should make a play to take over the U.S. public lands like Utah has proposed to do. We predicted this would happen because Utah’s legislature gets…
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GPS collar shows grizzly was on ridge above Grant Creek in Oct. 2011- For years there have been reports grizzly bears in or near “The Rattlesnake,” just north of Missoula, Montana. Now there is hard proof that one grizzly briefly visited in October 2011. A “dropped” GPS collar found miles to the north from a female…
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Here is our second edition of interesting wildlife news for the year 2013. Please post your wildlife news stories and your comments in the open thread below. You can access the previous edition (Jan. 13, 2013) of “Interesting Wildlife News” here.