Wolves

  • Wildlife Services Challenged

    George Wuerthner

    Wildlife Services Challenged In early June environmental groups filed a law suit against the euphemistically named “Wildlife Services” WS (formerly Animal Damage Control) to halt its killing of wolves in Idaho. Last year the federal agency killed 72 Idaho wolves at the behest of ranchers, and sometimes hunters as well.  In the past decade, WS…

  • Wolf Discussion Absent from Idaho Wildlife Services EA

    Barrie Gilbert

    Idaho Wildlife Services recently made public an Environmental Assessment (“EA”) supposedly analyzing statewide predator damage and conflict management. However, wolves are notably absent from the 273-page document. Wildlife Services’ recent killing of five wolves in central Idaho—in addition to previous killings of six in response to livestock depredation and 19 to boost elk populations in…

  • Idaho Wildlife Services: Your Comments Needed

    Barrie Gilbert

    News came out last week that taxpayer-funded and woefully misnamed Wildlife Services killed five wild wolves in central Idaho for alleged livestock depredation—another in a long line of such wolf-killing actions by this secretive government agency. Wildlife Services, which Congressman Peter DeFazio calls “one of the most opaque and least accountable agencies” in the federal government,…

  • Open Letter to NRDC about promoting JBarL livestock operations in Montana’s Centennial Valley

    George Wuerthner

    Zack Strong Montana Office NRDC Bozeman, Montana Dear Zack, I just read the article in NRDC’s On Earth about the JBarL ranch in Montana’s Centennial Valley. As the Montana representative, I suspect you had a hand in helping to promote this article. http://www.onearth.org/earthwire/montana-cattle-ranching-wolves Now I know you didn’t write the piece, and may have had…

  • “In Wolf Country,” important new book by Jim Yuskavitch

    Ralph Maughan

    About the politics of wolf reintroduction in the Northern Rockies- Jim Yuskavitch begins his book with the story of wolf B45, the first Idaho wolf to venture into Oregon. She (B45) was a first generation offspring of the wolves brought down from British Columbia for release in Idaho in 1996. Most of his examples and descriptions…

  • Why the NRDC’s Montana “Wolf Stamp” Must Be Stopped

    Brooks Fahy

    By Brooks Fahy, Executive Director, Predator Defense Recently one of our county’s most highly respected environmental organizations, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), proposed that wildlife advocates improve the plight of wolves in Montana by purchasing a special wolf “conservation” stamp for $20. The money raised would allegedly be used to resolve wolf conflicts nonlethally,…

  • Idaho Suspends Wilderness Wolf-Killing Plan In Face of Court Challenge

    Ken Cole

    POCATELLO, Idaho – Faced with a legal challenge by conservationists and an imminent hearing before a federal appeals court, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game (“IDFG”) has abandoned its plan to resume a professional wolf-killing program in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness during the coming winter. In a sworn statement submitted to the…

  • National Event Aimed at Reforming Wildlife Management Planned for June 27-29, 2014 in Gardiner, Montana

    Brett Haverstick

    Gardiner- A weekend long event titled, Speak for Wolves: Yellowstone 2014 is scheduled to take place in Gardiner, Montana from June 27-29, 2014. Organizers are describing it as an opportunity for the American people to unite and demand wildlife management reform and take steps toward restoring our national heritage. The festivities include prominent speakers, live…

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