Conservationists Call for Release of Long-Delayed Plan to Prevent Wildlife Disease Epidemic at Jackson Hole National Elk Refuge Plan Urgently Needed After Chronic Wasting Disease Detected in Grand Teton JACKSON, Wyo. (Dec. 5, 2018) – A conservation coalition this week called on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (“FWS”) to end more than a decade […]
It’s no longer hypothetical – Chronic Wasting Disease has been confirmed in a buck mule deer in Grand Teton National Park. Shortly before 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, November 21st, Wyoming Game & Fish issued the following statement: “The Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s Wildlife Health Laboratory has confirmed that an adult buck mule deer from […]
With low temperatures and snow falling across Western Wyoming, the chances of hunter success will likely increase over the next few weeks. Wyoming wolves are once again in the crosshairs of hunters rifles as the Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) increased the quota in the trophy hunt area to 58 wolves allowed to be […]
A new opinion piece by Montana elk hunter David Stalling illustrates why trophy hunting grizzlies won’t make the forest safer for humans. Is that what we really want anyway? “There’s inherent risks to wilderness travel. In some places, grizzlies can be one of those risks, particularly when you kill an animal like an elk that […]
In response to the report that elk numbers are at least 30% above objective in 2018 and above objective in many parts of the state for the last few years, it’s high time that those who dislike wolves in Wyoming stop claiming “the wolves are eating all the elk.” Large numbers of wolves will not […]