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Archive for Kristin Combs
07Dec
Wyoming Wildlife Advocates & Sierra Club release updated Chronic Wasting Disease map.
Wyoming Wildlife Advocates & Sierra Club today released an updated version of their Chronic Wasting Disease map. This map depicts CWD endemic mule deer hunt areas across the state of Wyoming. The different colors portray the movement of the disease over the time period of 2000 until the present and starkly shows CWD’s steady march […]
20Nov
Yellowstone National Park Lone Dissenter To Plan For Managing Grizzly Bears If They Are Delisted From ESA
by Kurt Repanshek/National Parks Traveler | NOVEMBER 20, 2016 Just one vote against a conservation strategy intended to see that grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem thrive after they lose Endangered Species Act protections was voiced, and that came from the superintendent of Yellowstone National Park, the core of the ecosystem and heart of […]
Sierra Club: Grizzly mortality limits flawed
by Mike Koshmrl/Jackson Hole News & Guide | NOVEMBER 11, 2016 Conservation groups worry that high death rates of boar grizzlies in a post-delisting world will not be captured by population models and that bear numbers will unknowingly fall into decline as a result. Modeling conducted by former federal grizzly researcher David Mattson and distributed […]
15Nov
What might happen with no Teton hunt?
by Cory Hatch/Jackson Hole News & Guide | NOVEMBER 9, 2016 Grand Teton National Park’s “elk reduction program” began Oct. 22 sans the usual fusillade of controversy to accompany the scores of bullets now whizzing around Blacktail Butte. Set aside for a moment the question of whether hunting is even appropriate in a national park […]
07Nov
Article highlights Nat’l Park Service issues with grizzly delisting process
This article highlights some of the problems with the current status of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem grizzly bear delisting process. The article comprehensively addresses the issues that most concern Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Dan Wenk, who is quoted extensively and is one of the most outspoken critics of the delisting plan. Superintendent Wenk is certainly […]
24Oct
Fantastic wide ranging discussion of wildlife ethics and management
Gosia Bryja has written an outstanding piece that covers a wide range of issues that have particular concern for grizzly bears. Titled “Navigating the Anthropocene: embracing compassion and empathy for the grizzly bears in the age of uncertainty and unpredictability” the article challenges many of the ruling orthodoxies of wildlife management, and rightly so, in […]
11Oct
Montana Senator calls on Wyoming to end elk feedlots
In a new piece in Montana On The Ground, Laura Lundquist writes that Montana is getting nervous about being stuck between CWD in Wyoming and CWD in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Montana Senator Mike Phillips has requested a joint resolution urging Wyoming to discontinue its elk feedlots. Read more at Montana On The Ground. http://www.montanaotg.com/blog-native/2016/10/6/time-running-out-cwd
04Oct
Succinct LA Times Op-Ed Opposes Grizzly Delisting
The LA Times just posted an excellent Op-Ed regarding grizzly delisting. This is as succinct and to the point as you can get. Worth printing out and referring to. Delisting is a terrible idea, motivated more by politics than science. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking a splashy “mission accomplished” victory by “saving” […]
09Sep
Lethal vs. non-lethal predator management: Which works better for livestock producers?
Based on available evidence, non-lethal predator control is more effective than lethal means That is the conclusion of scientists who reviewed the scientific literature regarding effectiveness of various means of predator control. “Non-lethal controls were more effective than lethal methods in preventing carnivore predation on livestock.” At least two lethal methods, government culling and regulated […]
State grizzly plans “intentionally managing for a decline”
Greater Yellowstone Coalition executive director Caroline Byrd has written a strongly worded op-ed piece in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. In it she remarks that the states are “intentionally managing for a decline of grizzlies” and “will turn a remarkable 40-year recovery process and $40 million investment into a failure.”