Nov 07 2011
From today’s Missoulian . . . With more than 150 wolves shot in the Northern Rockies so far this fall, a panel of federal judges on Tuesday is scheduled to consider an emergency halt to public hunts for the animals. Congress cleared the way for the hunts last spring, when lawmakers took the unprecedented step [...]
Nov 02 2011
From an AP article posted to today’s Missoulian . . . State wildlife officials want to extend Montana’s wolf hunting season to give hunters enough time to fill a 220-wolf quota that is intended to sharply reduce the predator’s population. Ken McDonald with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks said Wednesday the season would be extended [...]
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 [...]
Aug 14 2011
From the Daily Inter Lake . . . Environmentalists have asked a federal appeals court for an emergency injunction to halt wolf hunts scheduled to start in a few weeks in Idaho and Montana. The request filed by the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and other groups with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals [...]
Apr 12 2011
A pretty good AP article posted to today’s Flathead Beacon . . . An attachment to a federal budget bill needed to avert a government shutdown would take gray wolves off the endangered species list across most of the Northern Rockies. Wildlife advocates conceded Tuesday the wolf provision was all but certain to remain in [...]
Apr 12 2011
It now looks very likely that wolves will be removed from the Endangered Species List. Late last night, Senators Tester and Baucus successfully placed a rider in the “must pass” budget bill that restores the 2009 U.S. Fish and Wildlife rule returning management of gray wolves to state-level control in Montana and Idaho. The rider [...]
Apr 11 2011
From today’s Missoulian . . . Wildlife advocates are scrambling to remove from the federal budget bill a provision that would lift protections for gray wolves in Montana and Idaho. John Motsinger with Defenders of Wildlife said Monday his group would continue to fight the provision “until it’s a done deal.” But time is running [...]
Mar 21 2011
From the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, here’s some more information on the proposed gray wolf recovery settlement announced last Friday . . . Wolf management in the Northern Rockies took a step forward Friday, March 18, when a coalition of 10 conservation groups — including GYC — announced a legal settlement with the U.S. Department of [...]
Mar 15 2011
Here’s a new chapter in the ongoing Idaho-Montana-Wyoming wolf management soap opera . . . The head of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Tuesday that federal officials are resuming negotiations with Wyoming aimed at turning over control of endangered gray wolves to the state. Federal officials have said for years that wolves were [...]
Mar 08 2011
From today’s Flathead Beacon . . . Dueling attorneys for a conservation group and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service offered starkly different opinions Monday about the future of the grizzly bear population in and around Yellowstone National Park, if the bear is taken off the threatened species list. Continue reading . . .
