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Wildlife
01Aug
Wyoming Is In Charge of Its Grizzlies
Bad news: Wyoming, Idaho and Montana can now call themselves grizzly bear managers.
06Jun
Alkali Concerns
Four conservation groups that fear for the health of Jackson’s elk herd filed a lawsuit on Monday against the Forest Service over management of the Alkali Creek feedground.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
07Nov
Article highlights Nat’l Park Service issues with grizzly delisting process
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 plan. Superintendent Wenk is certainly […]
First lawsuit of the “grizzly war” filed
In the first legal skirmish since the US Fish and Wildlife Service proposed delisting the grizzly bears of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, a lawsuit has been filed against the Wyoming Game and Fish Department and the Commission that oversees it’s affairs.