How quickly will national elk feeding grounds spread chronic wasting disease?

The century old tradition of feeding elk outside Yellowstone could end up severely hurting the population by spreading chronic wasting disease.

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Yellowstone Bison to be hunted or chemically castrated

Yellowstone Bison

MT Gov wants to hunt bison in Yellowstone Park. The USDA wants to chemically castrate them. Either way, ranchers get to cut their numbers.

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Tensleep: saved for the plants, but the elk like it, too

The Nature Conservancy bought the Girl Scouts’ biggest camp to research plants, but plenty of elk, deer, pronghorn, weasels and birds have moved in. Mountain lion and spotted bat are here, but tough to see.

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150 Yellowstone buffalo risk slaughter; Possum on diet to cure cross-eyes

Yellowstone Park rounds up 300 bison; likely to slaughter half to please local cattlemen. Did Heidi the possum go cross-eyed from being fat? Jane Lynch v. AKC

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Squirrel stalls car with 6 lbs of peanuts; Why not to try “suicide by bear”

Ambitious English squirrel used Kia as stash. Killer, buying the grizzly attack myth, tried to commit suicide by bear by ODing in Yellowstone. Yellowstone bison saved by public. More animal news

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Hunter shoots Assateague wild horse; Yellowstone wolf poisoned by banned compound

Wild Horse Grazing

Hunters shot and killed a 28-year old mare on MD’s Assateague National Sea Shore. 1080 poison was what killed a Yellowstone wolf that wandered to CO.

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Horsemeat convention strategizes to win over (or trick) public

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Las Vegas’ horse summit tries to pretend animal welfare groups, Temple Grandin and common sense are on their side.

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Why is Obama trying to gut the Endangered Species Act?

President Obama talked grandly about how he would “restore the scientific process to its rightful place at the heart of the Endangered Species Act, but now his interior secretary doing incompetent backroom horsetrading on wolves.

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Abert’s Squirrel: Cartoonish and Likes Western Mountains

Across the southwest is a cartoonish squirrel that wears a gray tuxedo and tassles on his ears. You can call them either Abert or Abert’s Squirrel.

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Happy Wolf Week: the Wolves Want Your Help

Dozens of wolf centers have popped up in the last couple decades, ranging from official breeding centers to sanctuaries for wolf-dog hybrids. You’re also probably near a Mexican gray wolf, one of the country’s rarest mammals.

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