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June 29, 2008
Mountain Lion Tears Apart New Mexico Man
LAS CRUCES -A mountain lion that may have killed a Pinos Altos, New Mexico, man was captured in a snare and killed Wednesday morning, according to the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish.
The lion was an average-sized adult male weighing roughly 125 pounds, according to the department. It had four [...]
June 28, 2008
It’s a New Legal Era For the 2nd Amendment
Whether or not a well regulated militia remains necessary to the security of a free state, as the second amendment to the U.S. Constitution declares, it isn’t the compelling motive behind the constitutional right of the people to keep and bear arms.
Read more...June 27, 2008
Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee Celebrates 25 Years
The Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee celebrated a quarter century of grizzly bear recovery on June 21, 2008, with a public ceremony at the Blackfoot—Clearwater Wildlife Management Area in Montana. The event was open to the public, and included displays and demonstrations of bear-related educational and safety programs and a ceremony with key partners involved in [...]
Read more...June 22, 2008
Massive conservation
Monster 2007 propels Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation to 5.2 million acres
Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
MISSOULA, Mont. — If a year’s accomplishments were scored like antlers, 2007 would be a trophy-class wallhanger for the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation.
The conservation group last year helped to enhance more acres of elk habitat and complete more land [...]
June 17, 2008
FWS Biologist Says Wolf Numbers Underestimated Mech Says 3,000 Wolves Exist in ID, MT & WY
In a widely circulated article titled, “What They Didn’t Tell You About Wolf Recovery,” in the Jan-Mar 2008 Outdoorsman, I documented the fact that Fish and Wildlife Service and state wolf biologists are knowingly underestimating wolf numbers in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. The article explained that only individual radio-collared wolves, and packs including at least [...]
Read more...June 14, 2008
FWP Commission agrees on wolf quota
Hunters can shoot up to 75 wolves this fall under a tentative quota unanimously approved Thursday by the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission, despite pleas from some that a wolf hunting season is premature.
The public has until July 18 to comment on the tentative quotas, as well as the commission’s [...]
June 14, 2008
Return of the Once-Rare Beaver? Not in My Yard.
CONCORD, Mass. — The dozens of public works officials, municipal engineers, conservation agents and others who crowded into a meeting room here one recent morning needed help. Property in their towns was flooding, they said. Culverts were clogged. Septic tanks were being overwhelmed.
Once wiped out in Massachusetts, beavers were repopulated in the 1930s.
“We have a [...]
June 13, 2008
Service Proposes to Expand Hunting and Fishing Opportunities on National Wildlife Refuges
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today opened a 30-day public comment period on a proposal to add one national wildlife refuge to the list of areas open for hunting during the 2008-09 season and increase hunting opportunities at six other refuges.
Read more...June 12, 2008
West Coast lawmakers vow to save the salmon
WASHINGTON — West Coast lawmakers are protesting a plan by the Bush administration to take $70 million from the $170 million approved in the farm bill as disaster relief for the Pacific Coast salmon-fishing industry.
Bush’s budget office says the money is needed to pay for higher-than-expected costs of the 2010 census.
After the reduction, which needs [...]
June 10, 2008
Foresters may extend ‘let it burn’ policy beyond wilderness areas
KALISPELL – Foresters looking to fight fire with fire have started looking beyond the boundaries of designated wilderness areas, and this summer will apply a sort of “let it burn” policy to public lands throughout northwest Montana.
They call it “wildland fire use” and this summer it could be used in the [...]
June 10, 2008
Bad news for chukar hunters
Edition Date: 06/06/08
Bird populations are down due to harsh winters, drought. Biologists say spring weather and nesting success are crucial for them to recover.and they may take years to rise
Southwest Idaho’s chukar population has taken a dive in the last two years due to harsh winters and drought, and it might take that many years [...]
June 10, 2008
Salmon update: The run is coming late, but it’s coming
Salmon anglers, be patient. There’s still good fishing ahead when the rivers come down, and fish are just starting to arrive at the Rapid River Hatchery near Riggins.
Seventy-one salmon had returned to the hatchery on Thursday. The run is later than last year because of this year’s high, cold, murky water, caused [...]
June 8, 2008
What to do during a wolf encounter
BOISE, Idaho — Thousands of vacationers in the West will likely see a wolf in the wild for the first time this summer, often from the road but sometimes while camping or hiking.
The federal government and state agencies that manage wolves have concise rules on what is legal in these encounters, and [...]
June 7, 2008
Cataloochee elk numbers may top 100 this year
The Smoky Mountain elk herd, once facing dire odds, could witness its best year yet in 2008, researchers say.
The number of elk could top 100 for the first time in the Cataloochee Valley on the eastern end of Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Researchers expect as many as 25 calves could be born in the coming [...]
June 6, 2008
Less Than 1/3 of Idaho Mule Deer Fawns Survive
Idaho Fish and Game biologists have been monitoring over 800 radio-collared mule deer around the state. They began in the winter of 2007 and since then, of 263 mule deer fawns monitored, only 30 percent (78 fawns) survived until May 15th. The overall survival for the 528 adult females was 90 percent.
This means that mule [...]
