
MT’s only wildlife sanctuary may close because it’s not meeting federal regulations, but it won’t say which ones.
Keep reading Closing MT’s only wildlife rehab center, home to bear, lynx, Ted Turner’s magpie?
![]() MT’s only wildlife sanctuary may close because it’s not meeting federal regulations, but it won’t say which ones. Keep reading Closing MT’s only wildlife rehab center, home to bear, lynx, Ted Turner’s magpie? ![]() The century old tradition of feeding elk outside Yellowstone could end up severely hurting the population by spreading chronic wasting disease. Keep reading How quickly will national elk feeding grounds spread chronic wasting disease? ![]() MT Gov wants to hunt bison in Yellowstone Park. The USDA wants to chemically castrate them. Either way, ranchers get to cut their numbers. Keep reading Yellowstone Bison to be hunted or chemically castrated ![]() Is there a new dynamic playing out between ranchers and the defenders of wolves since they were taken of the endangered species list? The New York Times thinks wolf lovers and watchers have been chastened by the delisting and are newly compromising. “Aghast, some environmental groups had a moment of reckoning. Had they gone too far in using the Endangered Species Act as a cudgel instead of forging compromises with ranchers?” Yeah, there’s a new dynamic: ranchers, hunters and government agents can kill wolves like they haven’t in a century. Michael Robinson of the Center for Biological Diversity points out that delisting wolves means that the USDA’s Wildlife Services unit, which kills wildlife for farmers and ranchers at taxpayer expense, will now be able to kill even more wolves for even more reasons. Like to promote elk hunting. Even though biologists say the wolves aren’t really hurting the elk. Only about 1,100 wolves survive out west, but Wildlife Services kills an amazing number: 452 in FY2010 and 481 in FY2009. Wolves didn’t get kicked off the list (this time) by a bizarre political deal until April. In Idaho 169 wolves have been killed so far this year: 122 for hunters, 42 for cows and 5 for elk. Montana has already killed 136, more than half by hunting. Leslie Kaufman’s story has some sense of history, but the entire premise seems based on a fabulist rancher’s point of view. I don’t know any wolf people who feel they have “gone too far.” Nor do they–we–feel we have been Keep reading Wolf advocates not as sheepish as NYT claims ![]() Canyon Ministries, which pushes a creationist view of the Grand Canyon, is turning to Yellowstone, where they see animals’ cooperative relationships as proof they didn’t just evolve. Keep reading Creationists see animals’ complex relationships as proof they didn’t just evolve ![]() You can stay with the chatty prairie dogs studied on Wild Kingdom at Ted Turner’s Vermejo Park Ranch in NM. Bonus species: elk, pronghorn, black bear and black-footed ferret. Keep reading Stay at Ted Turner’s NM ranch, where prairie dogs are promoted alongside bison and endangered ferrets ![]() 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. Keep reading Tensleep: saved for the plants, but the elk like it, too ![]() 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 Keep reading 150 Yellowstone buffalo risk slaughter; Possum on diet to cure cross-eyes ![]() 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 Keep reading Squirrel stalls car with 6 lbs of peanuts; Why not to try “suicide by bear” ![]() 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. Keep reading Hunter shoots Assateague wild horse; Yellowstone wolf poisoned by banned compound |
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