Oct 30 2011
From today’s Flathead Beacon . . . Stretched across a state and two provinces, the Crown of the Continent is one of the last wild places in America and now it is being highlighted in a report by the U.S. Department of Interior promoting the outdoors. The report, to be released this week, features two [...]
Oct 29 2011
Posted yesterday evening to the Missoulian (includes a nice map) . . . U.S. Sen. Max Baucus announced Friday he will sponsor a bill to expand the wilderness on the Rocky Mountain Front, saying the proposal has a good chance of being the first wilderness designation in the state since the early 1980s. Conservationists who [...]
Oct 29 2011
October, as usual, is a big month for bear-human conflict . . . The busy season for bear management is well under way in Northwest Montana. Over the past two weeks, Fish, Wildlife and Parks bear conflict biologists have captured and relocated eight grizzly bears from the northeast portion of the Flathead Valley, according to [...]
Oct 28 2011
A few of our readers have seen the polar bear migration in person. Now, thanks to a grant from the Annenberg Foundation, it is possible to watch it online. [Note: Although it was up yesterday, the web site is broken right now.] From an AP article posted to the Flathead Beacon site . . . [...]
Oct 26 2011
This week, Larry has some observations about the U.S. Forest Service bureaucracy . . . As promised early in the summer, the Forest Service has rebuilt boat access sites at the Canada border and at Ford Ranger Station. Although it will be easier to launch at Ford due to the removal of the wooden terraces, [...]
Oct 25 2011
Here’s some pretty good commentary by Sarah Gilman of the High Country News concerning last Friday’s resurrection of the “roadless rule” . . . One of the last decades’ most scintillating (that is, in the headachey confusing sense…) enviro-legal ping-pong matches may finally be drawing to a close. On Friday, a three-judge panel at the [...]
Oct 25 2011
After 10 years of squabbling, the “roadless rule” is back in force. From today’s Missoulian . . . A decade of uncertainty over managing public roadless lands may have cleared with last Friday’s federal appeals court ruling. A three-judge panel from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously agreed that a 2001 rule governing [...]
Oct 19 2011
Some well-chosen observations about hunting season in Larry Wilson’s column this week . . . The fall colors are not at their peak yet, but close. The quaking aspen have turned bright yellow, and the leaves are beginning to fall, while the larch are half gold and half green. Of course, bow hunting has been [...]
Oct 18 2011
Not unexpectedly, the request by a number of environmental groups for an emergency injunction against this year’s wolf hunt was denied . . . A federal appeals court has turned down an emergency request by wildlife advocates seeking to stop gray wolf hunts underway in the Northern Rockies. In a ruling Tuesday, the 9th U.S. [...]
Oct 17 2011
From today’s Missoulian . . . A group of wolf advocates have requested an emergency halt to wolf hunting in the Rocky Mountains, one week before the general rifle season begins in Montana. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Friends of the Clearwater and WildEarth Guardians want to return the gray wolf to federal Endangered [...]
