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News
25Apr
Ungulate Uncertainty : The deepening debate over elk management in the hole
The visible nature of this winter’s impact has brought an important conversation to the forefront in the Jackson Hole community: Are we managing local ungulates in the best way possible?
06Mar
Ruling on wolf delisting praised, condemned
by Mark Huffman/Jackson Hole News & Guide | MARCH 6, 2017 A court decision handed down Friday that has wolves headed for management by the state of Wyoming has spurred a flurry of praise and condemnation. The U.S. appeals court ruling is a major step toward removing wolves in Wyoming from the Endangered Species Act […]
02Mar
Disappointing Decision by Grand Teton National Park
With no regard for the comments submitted by the public, Grand Teton National Park has decided to move forward with a plan to renovate the historic 4 Lazy F dude ranch into 15 to 17 seasonal staff housing units. The ranch, located at the convergence of Cottonwood Creek, Ditch Creek and the Snake River, provides […]
01Feb
Newsletter – February 2017
Wyoming Wildlife Advocates’ February 2017 Newsletter is now available! Click here to read the latest updates on grizzly delisting, chronic wasting disease and more.
25Jan
A Live Grizzly Is Worth More Than A Dead One
by Cory Hatch/Jackson Hole News & Guide | JANUARY 25, 2017 Over the holidays at my in-laws’ house, a factoid on the 24-hour-a-day Christmas music TV station caught my eye: Teddy Bears are so named because Teddy Roosevelt refused to shoot a bear cub on a 1902 hunting trip (I’m paraphrasing). It turns out this […]
03Jan
Monitoring intensifies to detect chronic wasting disease
by Mike Koshrml/Jackson Hole News & Guide | JANUARY 2, 2017 The intensity of the search for chronic wasting disease about doubled this year in Jackson Hole and more tissue samples were extracted from hunter-killed animals than ever before. A grant from the Teton Conservation District and money chipped in by the Wyoming Game and […]
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 […]