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Resources
Thank you for visiting Wyoming Wildlife Advocates’ Resource Library. This collection of resources is continuously updated with additions. If you do not see what you are looking for, please feel free to contact us. Thank you!
Please utilize these resources
when crafting your comment for the Grizzly Delisting rule on the Federal Register. Comments are most likely to be recognized when based on scientific fact, and supported by references.
If any of these documents support your comments, attach them with your submission.
- Dr. David Mattson’s Critique – Wyoming Wildlife Advocates Comments on the US Fish & Wildlife Service proposal to remove grizzly bears in the Yellowstone ecosystem from the list of endangered and threatened wildlife protected under the US Endangered Species Act (ESA); Federal Register 81(48): 13174-13227
- Scientific Paper on Connectivity – Population Fragmentation and Inter-Ecosystem Movements of Grizzly Bears in Western Canada and the Northern United States
- Scientific Paper on Grizzly Food Resources – Response Of Yellowstone Grizzly Bears To Changes In Food Resources: A Synthesis
- Scientific Paper on Grizzly Genetics – Genetic Analysis Of Individual Origins Supports Isolation Of Grizzly Bears In The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
- US Fish & Wildlife Q&A on Delisting – Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Grizzly Bear Population Proposed Delisting Rule
- IGBC Linkage Zones Report – Identifying and Managing Wildlife Linkage Approach Areas on Public Lands
- Tri-State Grizzly Agreement – Memorandum Of Agreement Regarding The Management And Allocation Of Discretionary Mortality Of Grizzly Bears In The Greater Yellowstone Area
- Wyoming Grizzly Management Plan – Draft Wyoming Grizzly Bear Management Plan
- Grizzly Times Article by Dr. Mattson – Grizzly Times| Hunting to Scare Grizzlies?
- What to Do if You See a Bear (And Why) – Effortless Outdoors
Grizzly Bears
- IGBST Grizzly ConservationStrategy (link)
- Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee Food Synthesis Report (link)
- This document claims Yellowstone grizzlies can adapt to losses of important food sources such as cutthroat trout and whitebark pine nuts. It has been widely challenged.
- IGBST Grizzly Bear Guidelines (for relocation, “removal,”, etc.) (link)
- 2013 Grizzly Bear Investigations Report (link)
- Wyoming Grizzly Bear Management Plan (link)
- 2020 Grizzly Bear Relocation, Capture, and Removal Report (link)
Wolves
- Wyoming Gray Wolf Monitoring and Mangement Plan – 2018 Annual Report
- Wolf Monitoring and Management in Wyoming 2018 Presentation (link)
- WWA and Sierra Club Comments on wolf hunting regulations (SC Wyoming & WWA Comments on Chapter 47 Proposed Regulations for 2019)
Elk
Other
Grizzly Bears
Wolves
- Tools for co-existence: fladry corrals efficiently repel wild wolves (Canis lupus) from experimental baiting sites (link)
- Wolf recovery in Yellowstone: Park visitor attitudes, expenditures, and economic impacts (link)
- Wolf Species Resistant to Prion Disease (link)
- Climate affects which elk that wolves kill (link)
Elk
Management Practices
- Working constructively toward an improved North American approach to wildlife management (link)
- The elephant (head) in the room (link)
- Killing for fun(ds): The centerpiece of agency interactions with wildlife (link)
- Large carnivores under assault in Alaska (has implications for predator management in Wyoming) (link)
- Quantifying the contribution of conservation easements to large landscape conservation (link)
- Support for the U.S. Endangered Species Act over time and space: Controversial species do not weaken public support for protective legislation (link)
Predator-Prey Relationships
Myths circulated about wolves and the science that busts them
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- Interview with Dr. Adrian Treves, founder of the Carnivore Coexistence Lab at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He discusses predator population management and the high rates of poaching in the United States, the ineffectiveness and dubious legality of wildlife killing contests, regulatory mechanisms for keeping the wolf off the endangered species list, and what can be done to improve human and wild carnivore interactions.
- Interview with Dr. David Mech, one of the foremost experts on wolf biology and behavior with 60 years studying wolves in the wild. Dispells and debunks some of the most common myths.
- Myth: The wolves that were introduced from Canada are a much larger subspecies than the wolves that historically inhabited the Northern Rockies in the U.S.
- Fact: Wolves of the Northern Rockies and the wolves that were captured from Alberta are the same species. There can sometimes be differences in sizes of an animal based on geographic location with larger species being found further north, but the difference between wolves in Alberta, Canada and the wolves historically found in the Northern Rockies is negligible. Link confirming this. Listen to Dr. Doug Smith speak on this topic.
- Do wolf hunts outside Yellowstone affect packs living primarily inside the park?
- How does the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem benefit from having wolves?
- How have wolves affected the elk population?
- Do wolves kill for sport, or kill more than they can eat?
- Should people be afraid of wolves?
- Why were wolves reintroduced in Yellowstone?
Action Documents
Management
- Common myths regarding grizzly bear management (link)
- Draft Wyoming Grizzly Bear Management Plan (link)
- Tri-State Grizzly Agreement (link)
- Why grizzlies should remain endangered (link)
- Wyoming Grizzly Bear Management Plan (link)
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Biological Opinion on the Assessment of Livestock Grazing on the Northern Portions of the Pinedale Ranger District (link)
- 2007 Interagency Grizzly Conservation Strategy (link)
- NRDC Alternative Grizzly Recovery Plan (link)
Grizzly Bear Monitoring
- Grizzly Bear Distribution in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem – 2014 Update (link)
- 2013 Report of the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team Yellowstone Investigation (link)
- Grizzly Bear Management Captures, Relocations and Removals in Northwest Wyoming – 2012 Report (link)
- Linkage zones between grizzly bear populations (link)
- Grizzly habitat map and summary of issues (link)
General Grizzly Fact
Legal
Maps
Feedgrounds
- Camp Creek Feedground Essay (link)
- Camp Creek Feedground Images (Page 1, Page 2, Page 3)
- Detailed Q&A on elk feeding and migration – what happens when elk feeding ends (link)
- WWA comments to the National Elk Refuge on step-down plan for feeding and environmental assessment (link)
- Letter from Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks Commission requesting Wyoming to begin to phase out feedgrounds (link)
Alkali Feedground:
- Alkali Feedground Proposed 5-year Permit scoping letter from the Bridger-Teton National Forest (link)
- Bridger-Teton National Park Alkali Creek Feedground Decision (link)
- WWA, Sierra Club Wyoming Chapter, Western Watersheds Project, and Gallatin Wildlife Association scoping period comments for Alkali Feedground permit to continue feeding for an additional 10 years (link)
CWD Surveilance
CWD Management/Working Group
- Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Best Managment Practices for Prevention, Surveillance, and Management of CWD (link)
- Wyoming Game & Fish Commission CWD Powerpoint (link)
- Sierra Club/WWA Comments on 2016 Draft CWD Plan (link)
- Sierra Club/Western Watersheds Project/Wyoming Wildlife Advocates Recommendations to the Wyoming CWD Working Group June 2019 (link)
- Wyoming CWD Working Group Recommendations to the Wyoming Game and Fish Department (link)
- Wyoming CWD 2019 Working Group Recommendations Interim Report (link)
Health Concerns connected to CWD
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (link)
- Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (link)
- Chronic Wasting Disease in Cervids: Implications for Prion Transmission to Humans and Other Animal Species (link)
- CWD risks to humans can’t be dismissed, health experts say (link)
- Frequently asked questions about CWD from the Centers for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (link)
Other information
- Alliance for Public Wildlife The Challenge of CWD: Insidious and Dire (link)
- United States Geological Survey Response to Chronic Wasting Disease Fact Sheet (link)
- Imperfect pasture: The way forward for the good of our elk herd by Bruce Smith, Ph.D. (link)
- CWD FAQs (link)
- Infographic: How carnivores can help stop the spread of chronic wasting disease (link)
Grizzly Bears
Wildlife Diseases
Hunting
- Greater Yellowstone Coalition
- Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance
- Born Free USA
- Wyoming Untrapped
- Footloose Montana
- Natural Resources Defense Council
- Earth Justice
- The Cougar Fund
- Wolfwatcher
- The Wildlife News
- Wolves of the rockies
- Wild Earth Guardians
- Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative
- Conservation Northwest
- Center for Biological Diversity
- Grizzly Times
- Sierra Club
- GOAL Tribal Coalition
- Carnivore Conservation Act