Idaho
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Domestic Sheep/bighorn conflict is not limited to Idaho- Most of our news on this issue has been in Idaho where the Payette National Forest is about to come out with an environmental impact statement on how to protect the bighorn. This will have national effects such as described in this story about the two animals…
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833 sockeye made the trip back to the Sawtooth Valley from the ocean this year- This is a great success from the not too distant past when only one salmon returned — “Lonesum Larry” Record sockeye salmon return. By Jon Duval. Idaho Mountain Express Staff Writer
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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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Is one state doing a better job than the other on the hunt? I think it’s still too soon to say, and too soon on the quotas too. Wolves killed picked up quickly in Idaho as more elk and deer hunts opened. Now the number killed is slowing down, but wait until there is more…
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Jackson Hole herd is not the only long pronghorn migration- Most people who follow wildlife news the West now know about the epic migration of the the pronghorn in Jackson Hole from summer to winter on desert south of Pinedale, WY and the big squeeze being put on this migration by the gas industry and…
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Ranch is between Ketchum and Hailey, Idaho- Here is something you don’t read about very often, especially in Idaho. A predator kills an animal on a ranch, and the owner or manager is not drooling for revenge. Mountain lion kills 2 alpacas. Ranch manager declines offer to kill predator. Idaho Mountain Express.
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Hunters are nearing the quota in three Idaho wolf hunting zones- Sixty-nine wolves have been shot now, 151 are left in the quota, but their are sub-quotas — quotas for each wolf zone. Palouse-Hells Canyon, McCall-Weiser, and Upper Snake have only 3 wolf tags left to fill. Two of the three had only 5 tags…
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2009 third-smallest fire season since 1970. By Todd Adams. The Challis Messenger.