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Bears
24Jul
G&F Commission Denies Petition but Recommends Bear Spray be Carried by All
At Friday’s Commission meeting, the Commissioners determined that a new regulation should not be enacted to require hunters in grizzly bear territory to carry bear spray as our petition recommended. The petition that was put forth by WWA, the Humane Society of the U.S., Sierra Club, WildEarth Guardians, Western Watersheds Project, the Center for Biological […]
13Jul
URGENT: Wyoming Residents – Comments Needed
Bear spray saves lives! Act to keep grizzly bears and hunters safer! What: One leading cause of grizzly bear mortality comes from conflicts with elk hunters. Attend a Wyoming Game Commission hearing to support a citizen petition that requests that hunters be required to carry non-lethal bear spray. Bear spray also keeps people safer than […]
22May
Idaho Game and Fish Commission Denies Bear Spray Petition
Wyoming Wildlife Advocates and our conservation partners received a formal denial of our petition to require hunters to carry bear spray in known grizzly bear territory from the Idaho Fish and Game (IDFG) Commission. Reasons cited included the requirement is “not warranted for every hunter,” and that it would “create a burdensome regulation, and is […]
03May
Bears Are Worth More Alive Than Dead
As well as being a keystone species and providing valuable ecosystem services, our grizzly bears are also a great resource to the state and provide an economic driving force of our second largest industry — tourism. Since grizzly bears are such a rare species and only live in a few select places, people travel from […]
05Apr
WWA and Other Groups Petition WY and ID to Require Hunters to Carry Bear Spray
For Immediate Release, April 4, 2019 Contacts: Diane Summers, The Humane Society of the United States, (301) 721-6421, ashapiro@humanesociety.org Bonnie Rice, Sierra Club, (406) 640-2857, bonnie.rice@sierraclub.org Collette Adkins, Center for Biological Diversity, (651) 955-3821, cadkins@biologicaldiversity.org Taylor Jones, WildEarth Guardians, (720) 443-2615, tjones@wildearthguardians.org Kristin Combs, Wyoming Wildlife Advocates, (307) 413-4116, kristin@wyowild.org Josh Osher, Western Watersheds Project, […]
04Mar
Yellowstone Grizzlies Under Attack Again
Our March newsletter has information about grizzlies, wolves, and a great new book about conflict prevention with grizzlies in Montana.
20Feb
WWA One of Groups Challenging New Law Allowing Wyoming to OK Grizzly Bear Hunts
New State Law Ignores Federal Court Ruling, Enables Grizzly Hunts CHEYENNE, Wyo.— Conservation groups today filed a notice of intent to sue over a new state law that would give the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission authority to manage grizzlies, including the authorization of a hunting season as early as this spring. “This is an […]
27Dec
Conservation Groups File Notice of Intent to Sue Over Bear Baiting
Western Watersheds Project and the Western Environmental Law Center filed a notice of intent to sue over bear-baiting that is permitted on Forest Service lands. Bear-baiting is a practice that involves the use of dumping hundreds of pounds of human foods to attract bears so they can be shot by hunters. This is occurring in […]
13Jul
URGENT: Wyoming Residents – Comments Needed
Bear spray saves lives! Act to keep grizzly bears and hunters safer! What: One leading cause of grizzly bear mortality comes from conflicts with elk hunters. Attend a Wyoming Game Commission hearing to support a citizen petition that requests that hunters be required to carry non-lethal bear spray. Bear spray also keeps people safer than […]