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Archive for kristen Combs
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 […]
11Jan
Grizzly Delisting Delayed!
GRIZZLY DELISTING: DECISION DELAYED!!! {Updated} MORE INFO ON GRIZZLY DELISTING DECISION DELAY WWA contacted Ryan Moehring at the public affairs office of the USFWS about the announced delay and we were told the following: 1) Getting the Conservation Strategy in place took longer than anticipated; and 2) Reviewing 650,000+ comments, many of which were substantive […]
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 […]
28Dec
Chronic Wasting Disease: 7% infection rate will decrease elk numbers
JHN&G has a good article about a soon-to-be released study on the impact CWD will have on the Jackson elk herd. Tom Hobbs, the lead author of the study, recently presented some of his findings to a CWD symposium hosted by the National Elk Refuge. Mr. Hobbs was not optimistic. WWA executive director Kent Nelson […]
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 […]