Wyoming
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Despite elk numbers above Game and Fish’s goals, hand wringing increases- Apparently a few hunting sub-units of elk are below objectives. I suspect there is plenty more behind this than elk numbers in a few locales. I wonder if local folks from Jackson are planning to push back against the rally? The article below says…
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Although proven to work, WY high value wildlife crossing projects failed to get funding- Ambitious Wyo big game underpass plan takes hit. By Jeff Gearino. Casper Star Tribune Southwest Wyoming bureau It is especially sad to see pronghorn crossing projects at Trapper’s Point near Pinedale denied. This bottleneck is a huge threat to the semi-annual,…
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Winter recreation may be one of the impacts to the remaining bighorn. This population of bighorn sheep has dwindled to very low numbers. Inbreeding, habitat loss due to development, and domestic sheep disease have restricted these sheep to very high elevation and sites of low productivity so human entry into these areas during winter may…
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Leaked memo shows massive effort coming to kill off Idaho wolves- The memo below from Cal Groen, Director of the Idaho Fish and Game Department confirms my call about six months ago that the Department was working with, or told to work with livestock interests to devise a method for a massive wolf reduction program.…
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It looks like the last bit of the Wyoming Range is going to be withdrawn from natural gas drilling- 1.2 million acres were protected in 2009 in the Omnibus Public Land Bill’s “Wyoming Range Legacy Act”. If you have never visited the Wyoming Range, it might be worth your while to drop another trip to…
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It should calm them, but doubtful it will- “It’s difficult to imagine a safer or better home for 14 Yellowstone bison than Guernsey State Park, which was suggested by Wyoming officials to host the animals.” Read the rest of the story in the Casper Star Tribune editorial.
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319 wolves in Wyoming, but as in ’08 only six breeding pairs in Yellowstone Park- I think it’s clear that Wyoming’s anti-wolf legislature had hoped that the requirement of ten breeding wolf pairs in the state could be met by Yellowstone Park alone, but yesterday’s USFWS release of the 2009 wolf figures for the state…
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Utah doesn’t have enough sheep- Several months ago we reported on this plan to augment a dwindling population of bighorn in these relatively unknown south central Wyoming mountains. At any rate, Utah bighorn haven’t done well this year, so the project is canceled. Plans to release 40 Utah bighorn in Wyoming Seminole Mtns Canceled. AP