Montana
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DNA study doubles bear census. By Jim Mann.Daily Inter Lake The long awaited $5-million study of how many grizzy bears there really are in NW Montana is finally out. There are 765 bears, considerably more than previous estimates. Federal study says grizzlies thriving in Montana. By Dina Cappiello. Associated Press Writer As mentioned earlier, John…
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This won’t impress most of that fraction of hunters who have decided that wolves have killed off the elk populations of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming, but most years I have put up articles like this. From the Missoulian. Montana Elk, deer prospects look good this year. By Michael Jamison.
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Idaho and Montana are still doing “wolf weeklies” or bi-weeklies to inform citizens. Wyoming has done zip since June. Montana Wolf Weekly. Aug. 23-29, 2008. This is a publication of Montana Dept. of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks. These state reports are mostly about killing wolves for alleged attacks on livestock. I’m worried what the final…
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Montana officially loses its brucellosis free status. Billings Gazette. By Matthew Brown. AP This is entirely a problem of their own making, or I just I should say the Montana Stockgrowers Association, who bulldozed away efforts to split the state into two zone when it came to brucellosis. It’s hard to have sympathy when such…
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The trapping season on this rare, probably endangered animal, will continue this winter in Montana, the only state with a season on wolverine. There are only about 500 wolverine in the lower 48 states. The Bush/Kempthorne Interior Department rejected endangered species status based on their highly questionable legal notion that a species can’t be…
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Yesterday, we discussed this massive burden Mark Rey has just dropped on Montana counties in the form of access to remote second home sites. This is an indication that Obama may be good on land use issues. Earlier he blasted the Cline Mine and related proposals in British Columbia that threaten Montana’s Flathead River and…
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Robert Hoskins, one of the best informed people who post to this web site, is, of course, active writing in many publications. Recently he had a good LTE to the Billings Gazette. Brucellosis management has utterly failed. In Google News comments, he follows up on the Montana brucellosis in great detail. There Is No Scientific…
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This story made some news in Montana. It was discussed briefly in this forum (no post, however). No doubt it will enter anti-wolf legends library. Here is the standard story by the outdoors editor of the Billings Gazette. Truly a blast from the wolf past By Mark Henckel. Billings Gazette. Brian Peck, however, did some…