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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 [...]
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May 28, 2008
If You Know Cats, You Know Cougars
By Diane Tipton, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Statewide Information Officer
Friday, April 18, 2008
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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 [...]
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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
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
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 [...]
May 15, 2008
North Idaho man kills wolf attacking his dogs
MULLAN, Idaho — A Shoshone County man says a pack of gray wolves is getting within yards of his home, and just Tuesday, he shot and killed one, while it was attacking his pet dog near Mullan. The wolf’s body is still where it was shot, a black mark in the snow. It is the [...]
Read more...May 14, 2008
U.S. lists polar bear as threatened species
Edition Date: 05/14/08
Erika Bolstad - ebolstad@adn.com
WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced today that the agency will list the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. But there are strings attached: an administrative letter that will have conditions to “keep from harming the economy.”
May 14, 2008
Debate On Polar Bear A Reflection Of Skewed Societal Priorities
May 3, 2008
A federal judge this past week told the Department of Interior it had until May 15, 2008 to make a decision on whether to list the polar bear as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act. And the environmentalists went wild!!!
If you follow the link category to the right [...]
May 13, 2008
Sighting of big cat roils Eagle Rock
Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Police Department officers and California Fish and Game wardens in search of what is believed to be a mountain lion that was seen in the neighborhood. The search was suspended at 2:30 p.m., but officers were staying in the area in case it reappeared.
Police [...]
