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May 31, 2008
Their wildest dream comes true: Wild Sky Wilderness opens
INDEX, Snohomish County — After years cajoling fellow lawmakers, strategizing with environmentalists and attending countless community meetings, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray stood on the bank of the Skykomish River Friday and looked into the newly created Wild Sky Wilderness.
“Rick,” she declared, pointing to a forested mountain and then gleefully slapping the [...]
May 30, 2008
Interior Department Awards Grants to States to Conserve Imperiled Wildlife
Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced today the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will award state and territorial wildlife agencies more than $60 million to help conserve and recover imperiled wildlife through the State Wildlife Grant Program. The grant program is designed to provide annual funding to all state and territorial fish [...]
Read more...May 28, 2008
If You Know Cats, You Know Cougars
By Diane Tipton, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Statewide Information Officer
Friday, April 18, 2008
Headlines
Safety in mountain lion country is a matter of education more than anything else, said Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks biologist Rich DeSimone who studies mountain lions.
May 27, 2008
New rules for forest planning adopted
Archive | Bush proposes changes to way forests are zoned (2002)
GRANTS PASS, Ore. — The U.S. Forest Service [...]
Read more...May 23, 2008
F&G rules could slash Idaho wolf numbers in half
Commissioners say that’s still more than five times the minimum that would trigger an ‘endangered’ listing.
BY ROGER PHILLIPS – rphillips@idahostatesman.com
Edition Date: 05/23/08
JEROME — Idaho’s wolf population could be cut in half under wolf hunting rules approved Thursday by the Idaho Fish and Game commission. But the final word rests with [...]
May 21, 2008
Upland Game Birds
By Wayne Foster
One of the most favorite past times of many is the hunting of upland game birds. Most of the places that people choose to do their upland hunting is chocked full of an abundance of wild birds, as well as acre after acre of beautiful private land for your hunting pleasure. Vast amounts [...]
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May 21, 2008
Northwest Sportsman — Winds of change for spring chinook
by ROB PHILLIPS
For The Yakima Herald-Republic
The much-anticipated Yakima River spring salmon fishing season was announced late last week, but as you may have seen or heard, this year’s season will be a little different from some in the past.
Yes, the season, which opens on May 1, and runs through May 31, [...]
May 21, 2008
Northwest Sportsman — Boaters prove to be quite crafty
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May 21, 2008
U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance to combat Humane Society with knowledge
By MARC FOLCO
Open Season
May 18, 2008 6:00 AM
The U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance (USSA) announced this week the creation of a fund with the sole purpose of combating the world’s number-one anti-hunting organization. Money collected through the Sportsmen Against HSUS fund will be used in the continuing battle against the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) [...]
May 21, 2008
Billings man hunting black bear kills grizzly
Associated Press – May 17, 2008 5:54 AM ET BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) – A Billings man accidentally shot and killed a 300-pound grizzly bear while hunting for black bear in the Gallatin National Forest.
Wildlife officials say 54-year-old Curtis Settergren mistook the male grizzly for a black bear while hunting in the Taylor Fork drainage south [...]
May 21, 2008
Nev. wildlife biologists recommend fewer hunting tags
Associated Press – May 7, 2008 5:35 PM ET
RENO, Nev. (AP) – Nevada wildlife biologists are recommending fewer hunting tags this year for elk, deer and antelope, mainly because of fires, drought and a harsh winter in some areas that led to poor fawn and calf survival.
Recommendations for desert, California, and Rocky Mountain bighorn [...]
May 21, 2008
Energy development: ‘It’s David vs. Godzilla’
By BOB BERWYN
SUMMIT COUNTY — Energy development in the Rocky Mountains represents the most urgent threat to the region’s wildlife, panelists said Friday at a workshop during the annual National Wildlife Federation meeting at Keystone.
Conservation advocates explained that they are trying to work both at the national and state levels to stem the tide habitat [...]
May 21, 2008
A husband-and-wife team in Montana studies the elusive wolverine
Betsy Robinson and her husband, Steve Gehman, hunch over a zagging line of paw prints. On this bracing morning in the northern Rockies, the couple raced at first light to the end of a dirt road near Bozeman, Mont., strapped on snowshoes, and went sleuthing for a set of animal tracks supposedly spotted by a [...]
Read more...May 19, 2008
State says no reason to reinstate wolf protections
By The Associated Press
LANDER – The state of Wyoming is challenging a request from environmental groups seeking to reinstate federal protection for gray wolves.
Wyoming has intervened as a defendant in the lawsuit filed by environmental groups opposed to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s recent decision to remove wolves from protection under [...]
May 17, 2008
B.C. man tells of surviving grizzly attack
Updated Sat. May. 17 2008 12:10 AM ET
A Vancouver Island man who survived an attack by a grizzly bear said he was working in the bush when a sixth sense told him he wasn’t alone.”I have a really keen sense. I had a feeling somebody or something was watching me,” said Brent Case, 53, whose [...]
