From The Sopris Sun: Advocating for healthy public lands and wildlife is at the heart of the Western Watersheds Project (WWP). The organization started in 1993, then the Idaho Watersheds Project, as a form of citizen protest to ranching practices in Lake Creek, Idaho. WWP’s work is done through a lens of maintaining and restoring […]
From Cowboy State Daily: While Wyoming ponders a legislative response to the abuse and killing of a wolf in Daniel that sparked nationwide outrage, an animal welfare group is pushing a bi-partisan bill for a federal ban chasing predators on snowmobiles. In a case of a hot-button issue making strange political bedfellows, conservative firebrand Rep. Matt Gaetz, […]
From Cowboy State Daily: Colorado’s wolf reintroduction program has so far been a disaster, but some believe there’s a chance it could still work if Wyoming’s southern neighbor would follow the Cowboy State’s lead. “How do you make it (wolf reintroduction) work for hunters, how do you make it work for ranchers? How do you […]
From NBC News: Colorado wildlife officials said Monday that they captured and plan to relocate five members of the first pack of wolves to form under the state’s ambitious wolf reintroduction program. A sixth wolf — the pack’s adult male — was captured but died in captivity due to injuries unrelated to its capture, officials said. That wolf […]
From Montrose Press: Wildlife advocates said Monday that they were “devastated” by the death of a reintroduced wolf that was captured late last month following a series of livestock depredations in the Middle Park area, and continued to place blame for the situation on a lack of effective conflict management and nonlethal control measures. Click […]
From Colorado Politics: Ranchers who have lost dozens of livestock to wolves no longer have confidence in Colorado Parks and Wildlife and are now asking the federal government to intervene. On Aug. 28, Don Gittleson of Jackson County and Conway Farrell of Grand County and their families wrote to regional officials with the U.S. Fish […]
From The Denver Post: One of Colorado’s reintroduced wolves — the patriarch of the state’s newest pack — died of natural causes four days after being recaptured by state wildlife officials following a series of livestock killings. Colorado Parks and Wildlife biologists captured the wolf on Aug. 30 and it died on Sept. 3, the agency […]
From The Outer Banks Voice: Joe Madison stops the truck, gets out and plucks a tree frog off the front window, gingerly placing it out of danger in the shrubs adjacent to the road. He gets back in and resumes the drive to Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge on the Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula. Madison is the […]
From CBS News: The death of a male wolf — one of the gray wolves released in Colorado last winter — is another sign of difficulty in re-establishing the animals in Colorado. The wolf was believed to be a father to the Copper Creek Pack comprising four pups. Six animals were trapped by Colorado Parks and […]
From Sportsman Alliance: Today, Sept. 9, the Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to compel the agency to issue findings on two petitions requesting gray wolf delisting and downlisting under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Click here for the full […]
