Grizzly sow with cubs, Grand Teton National Park (Chase Dekker). 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 […]
Condor Conservation’s Montana Connection
A California condor soars above Big Sur, California – Credit Joe Burnett, Ventana Wildlife Society 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 […]
Wildlife Casting Service Squares Off With Bureaucracy
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 […]
Killing Them to Save Them
FWP Allows Hunters to Cull an Entire Herd of Bighorns BY TOM DICKSON 01/08/15 Bighorn Ram, Lamar Valley, Yellowstone. By Tom Reichner 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 […]
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 […]