May 23 2011
A good summary of the science and opinion behind the debate on wolf recovery numbers from yesterday’s Missoulian . . . One of the biggest arguments left unresolved by last year’s wolf lawsuit was the most obvious: How many wolves are enough? The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service took the gray wolf off the endangered [...]
May 05 2011
Here’s a short Associated Press article covering both of the two lawsuits filed today opposing congressional removal of gray wolves from Endangered Species Act protection . . . Environmental groups asked a federal judge Thursday to put gray wolves back on the endangered species list in the Northern Rockies. Two lawsuits were filed in federal [...]
May 05 2011
As expected, a number of environmental groups filed suit in federal court today challenging congressional removal of gray wolves from Endangered Species Act protection. Here is the Missoulian’s write-up on one of the two suits . . . A trio of wolf advocates claim Congress violated the Separation of Powers Doctrine when it removed gray [...]
May 05 2011
As of yesterday, wolf managment has been returned to state control in Montana and Idaho. Here is the Daily Inter Lake’s take on the subject . . . The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a final rule Wednesday that officially removes wolves in Montana and Idaho from the Endangered Species list. The rule comes [...]
May 04 2011
This too-short Associated Press article claims that, besides returning management of gray wolves to state control in the Northern Rockies, the Obama administration proposes to do the same for a further 4200 wolves in the Great Lakes region . . . The Obama administration says it is lifting Endangered Species Act protections for 5,500 wolves [...]
May 04 2011
Here’s a good article from today’s Missoulian on the imminent delisting of gray wolves in the Northern Rockies . . . Northern Rocky Mountain gray wolves officially return to state control Thursday, when their removal from Endangered Species Act protection is published in the Federal Register. That means Montana and Idaho hunters will be back [...]
Apr 24 2011
An interesting retrospective on Ed Bangs, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wolf recovery coordinator for the northern Rockies, who will be retiring in June . . . Ed Bangs, who for 23 years led the effort to reintroduce and recover healthy wolf populations in the northern Rocky Mountains, is retiring from the U.S. Fish [...]
Apr 23 2011
From a recent email sent out by Janet Barwick, NRDC Montana Wildlife Advocate . . . Senate Bill 414, the Montana Wolf Control Act, has been voted down in the Montana House. This bill would have made it legal to shoot wolves on private land, at any time, even without a hunting license, endangering the [...]
Apr 16 2011
Idaho is already spooling up for a wolf hunt this year. No word from Montana yet . . . Officials with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game plan to meet with Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter on Monday to discuss a public wolf hunting season. “We will be ready to have another hunting season,” said [...]
Apr 15 2011
It’s official: Gray wolves are off the endangered species list in this corner of the country . . . Federal wildlife officials say they will take more than 1,300 gray wolves in the Northern Rockies off the endangered species list within 60 days. An attachment to the budget bill signed into law Friday by President [...]
