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It’s Long Past Time to Delist Yellowstone’s Grizzlies

Wildlife Officials Say the Time Is Overdue to Remove Yellowstone Area Grizzlies From the Threatened Species List BY TOM DICKSON 03/06/17 During a late August morning last summer, Kevin Frey drives up Paradise Valley on U.S. Highway 89 toward Yellowstone National Park. Pointing toward mountains surrounding the valley's fields of grazing cattle, irrigated alfalfa, and … [Read more...]

Condor Conservation’s Montana Connection

A California condor soars above Big Sur, California

BOZEMAN — Biologists have discovered high levels of pesticides and other contaminants from marine mammals in the tissues of endangered California condors living near the coast that they say could complicate recovery efforts for the largest land bird in North America. “Even though marine mammals are a potentially abundant food source for condors, they might not be that safe … [Read more...]

Wildlife Casting Service Squares Off With Bureaucracy

An African lion beneath Montana's Bridger Mountains. Courtesy Animals of Montana

Wild Animal Talent Agency Challenges Montana FWP BY PAT HILL 02/05/16 A Bozeman, Montana, area company that specializes in renting wild animals to photographers and filmmakers plans to challenge Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks’ decision to revoke the company’s operating permit. FWP announced on Jan. 4 that it has taken “formal steps” regarding revocation of the … [Read more...]

Killing Them to Save Them

Bighorn Ram, Lamar Valley, Yellowstone. By Tom Reichner

FWP Allows Hunters to Cull an Entire Herd of Bighorns BY TOM DICKSON 01/08/15 Within just 48 hours of exposure to the pathogens that cause pneumonia, most bighorn sheep respond the same way people do. Their nose begins to drip. Breathing becomes difficult. They develop a hacking cough. Soon the animals become feverish and lethargic. But unlike humans, who … [Read more...]

Doing Nothing, Again

It's Something to Do BY DAVID S. LEWIS 8-15-15 Last spring, if you recall, we landed in Pescadero, Mexico, and did absolutely nothing for a week while living in a casita on the beach, sleeping under a palapa roof, the senses  pounded into gelatinous submission by a thundering Pacific surf. Had in mind doing something like that again in April, on the Gulf side, then … [Read more...]

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