 Add three more dead bodies to hunters’ have a long history of shooting endangered whooping cranes. Imagine if Palin had posted a map with cross-hairs on animal research labs. And a tour of other animal news. Keep reading Hunters shoot 3 more whooping cranes; picture Palin targeting animal research lab workers  A controversial grazing deal has the federal government paying $3.3 million to graze on land that it should be able to buy outright for $4-8 million. Keep reading Why are the feds paying $3.3 million to graze for 30 years on land worth only about $4 million?  Gray whales migrating by the west coast now. HSUS gives Obama a B–talk about grade inflation. Scotland plans squirrel safari (this time not hunting grays) & more animal news. Keep reading Oregon’s Peak Week for Whales; A “South Sudan” Would Be Good For Wildlife  Church near Yellowstone charges taxpayers $313 per month for wild bison to graze. Mother Jones measures how much Obama sucks on wildlife. Escaped prairie dogs and wandering leatherback sea turtles.  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. Keep reading Why is Obama trying to gut the Endangered Species Act?  For the first two years they’re going to just kill as many deer as they can, regardless of gender. Then they’ll switch to killing 3 does to every 2 bucks. Killing bucks doesn’t really do anything to the population; one buck will mate with many does. They could kill a lot fewer animals if they would lean more heavily on the does–and right from the start. Keep reading Coyotes Couldn’t Control Valley Forge Wolves, Critics Say. Tell that to Yellowstone Elk  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. Keep reading Happy Wolf Week: the Wolves Want Your Help  Two wolves from the center were released, then shot within months. The whole program has effectively been on hold for almost five years. Just last week the Fish and Wildlife Service announced it wouldn’t release any wolves this year — without any real explanation. while federal and state wildlife debate what to do. (The states involved, Arizona and New Mexico, seem to also be locked in a battle over who can be more inhospitable to wolves.) So far the program has released 92 wolves into the wild on the Arizona-New Mexico border. But since 2006, they’ve only released one–despite continued illegal hunting of the wolves. Since 1998, there have been 75 documented wolf deaths. People who presumably don’t like the federal intrusion of wolves introduced to cattle country shot 32 endangered Mexican gray wolves. Twelve were hit by cars. Only 10 were confirmed natural causes; the rest are under investigation. Keep reading Half as Many Mexican Wolves in NY Suburb as in Wild  Wolf-watching expert Jean Ossorio camps a week to see one endangered Mexican gray wolf. Planned tours would work–if locals shot few of the endangered lobos. Keep reading Mexican Wolf Tourism Not So Far Fetched, Says Woman Who’s Tried It  The grizzly bear committee report mainly just takes on a strawman claim that whitebark pine decline=grizzly decline. That’s not what the Times said. The agency’s report really doesn’t refute the real claim, whitebark pine decline=grizzly conflict increase. It just says it’s not the biggest factor. Keep reading Does Whitebark Pine Decline = Increased Grizzly Attacks? |
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