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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
