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  • Sage Grouse Pushed Two More Steps Toward Endangered Species Act Protection by Nevada.

    Ken Cole

    With the firing of Nevada Department of Wildlife chief, Ken Mayer and massive sagebrush suppression projects –in place of grazing reductions – by the BLM, sage grouse are headed toward trouble in Nevada. A behind the scenes battle has taken place between many competing forces like Nevada Department of Wildlife, BLM, Nevada Department of Conservation…

  • 193 Idaho Wolves Killed Since April 1st

    Ken Cole

    According to a state records request submitted in November, as well as publicly available information on the Idaho Fish and Game’s website, there have been 193 wolves killed since April 1st of this year. The records request response contained information for documented mortality from April 1, 2012 to November 25, 2012. Since then an additional…

  • [Updated] Photos published by Wildlife Services employee illustrate torture.

    Ken Cole

    Graphic photos published to a self-proclaimed USDA Wildlife Services employee’s Facebook page and Twitter account were recently brought to light by wildlife activists.  Some of the photos, placed in a Facebook album called “work” and some from a public Twitter account, depict the employee’s dogs attacking defenseless coyotes, raccoons, and bobcats caught in a leg-hold…

  • Massively redacted wolf documents show Mexican wolves about as sensitive a nuclear weapons

    Ralph Maughan

    Not really, but why were 80% of released documents on Mexican wolf capture plans  redacted? Last August the conservation group WildEarth Guardians requested the documents about a planned removal of a female Mexican wolf whose pack might have killed up to six cattle near the SW corner of New Mexico. Folks are often suspicious of…

  • USDA-Wildlife Services manipulates stats to downplay their use of lethal control of wildlife

    Ralph Maughan

    Wildlife Services has high average non-lethal record for all animals, but not for large carnivores- Lately there has been a lot of media critical of USDA-Wildlife Services; often called by its critics something like “the federal government’s wildlife killers.”  In an effort to mount a defense the Service has pointed out that 80% of its…

  • USDA-Wildlife Services finally meets with its professional critics

    Ralph Maughan

    Federal animal control agency meets with American Society of Mammalogists after 93 years of criticism- The American Society of Mammalogists has been criticizing the agency in the federal government that kills “problem” predators for 93 years now.  That agency has gone by many names over that long period.  Wildlife Services is the most recent, and…

  • Grizzly said to kill 70 sheep on Rocky Mountain Front. Updated 6/26/2012

    Ralph Maughan

    4-year old sow is captured- The Great Falls Tribune said that a sow griz killed 70 sheep “at three ranches in two weeks — including 58 at one ranch — in an unprecedented killing spree. . . [emphasis ours].  We can picture a drawing in a sensational magazine with a giant grizzly throwing hapless sheep…

  • More on investigating Wildlife Services’ activities

    Ralph Maughan

    The Sacramento Bee gives citizens suggestions- The Bee’s recent expose investigation of the activities of USDA-Wildlife Services predator control was read by many. Outrage is high and now more information is in the hands of the public. Earlier we covered efforts by two members of the House, bipartisan, to get a congressional investigation started.  We…

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