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keywords: description: AboutHistory of the Greater Yellowstone wolf restorationAbout HuntingBlog comment rulesCentral IdahoDo you have some interesting wildlife news? July 25, 2019 editionDo you have some interesting wildlife news? April 9, 2019 edition Wolves More Bison/Buffalo More Public Lands More Grazing and Livestock More Bears More Bighorn Sheep More Sage Grouse More Reader generated wildlife news.By On January 24, 2021 426 Comments In Wildlife NewsReader generated wildlife news beginning on Jan. 24, 2021
This is a new page of “Reader Generated Wildlife News.” These are stories posted by the readers of The Wildlife News. These can be links to stories in the media or a complete wildlife story you have written. Please do not post copyrighted material although you []
Continue Reading Regional Web CamsBy On November 28, 2015 Leave a Comment In Wildlife NewsWe have made links to web cams in Idaho, Western Montana and Western Wyoming-.
Alpine, ID/WY web cam. Located on the Idaho-Wyoming border looking east to the mouth of the Snake River Canyon.
Big Piney, WY air quality cam. Near Big Piney looking ENE across the desert to the Wind River []
Continue Reading Dixie and Bootleg FiresExamples of Failed Forest PolicyBy On October 19, 2021 3 Comments In California, Climate Change, Forest Service, Logging, Oregon, Public Land ManagementThe Bootleg Fire in southern Oregon spread across 400,000 acres, burning in a mosaic pattern of burned, lightly burned and unburned areas. Photo George Wuerthner
As another summer of large fires spread across the West including the Dixie Fire in northern California and the Bootleg Fire in southern Oregon, advocates of active []
Continue Reading A Response To Treuers Atlantic Magazine National Parks and TribesBy On October 12, 2021 11 Comments In National Parks, Public Lands, Yellowstone National ParkOld Faithful is emblematic of Yellowstone National Park. Photo George Wuerthner
A recent article Return the National Parks to the Tribes in Atlantic Magazine by David Treuer is worth a detailed review because it represents a common set of inaccurate assumptions and historical imprecision about the relationship of conservation, national parks []
Continue Reading Industrial Forestry Paradigm Threat to North Bridger RangeBy On October 7, 2021 2 Comments In Climate Change, Forest Service, Logging, Montana, Public Lands, Wildlife NewsThe North Bridger Timber Sale is removing old growth forests to promote forest health. Photo George Wuerthner
After reading the article in the October 7th Bozeman Daily Chronicle titled “Timber Treatment” about the North Bridger logging project on the Custer Gallatin National Forest of Montana one gets the idea that until []
Continue Reading Response to Timber Industry Comments On October 6, 2021 ByClearcut in the Ten Mile Drainage near Helena, Montana. Photo George Wuerthner
In a recent editorial in the Helena IR, an employee of RY Timber presented misleading commentary in his essay Forest Service is Right to Restore Forest Health that deserves a response.
First, keep in mind that the timber industry []
Continue Reading Why Prescribed Burning Is Seldom Effective On September 29, 2021 ByPrescribed burning is often seen as a way to reduce to the large climate-driven blazes now occurring across the West, however, there are many problems that proponents fail to acknowledge. Photo George Wuerthner
It seems everyone is grasping for some solution to big fires. And one of the common assertions is that []
Continue Reading Of Indigenous Peoples, Environmentalism, and Atonement On September 27, 2021 ByBy Erik Molvar and Marsha Small
As America struggles with its history of systemic racism, the environmental movement faces questions of its own over the extent to which policies that were racist, genocidal, or entailed ethnic cleansing played a role in early American conservation. Much of the western United States is federal public land, but []
Continue Reading Park Service Sells Out Point Reyes National Seashore to the Livestock Industry On September 25, 2021 ByThirteen ranchers won a sweeping victory this week, defeating the interests of three million annual visitors to Point Reyes National Seashore, by securing a plan amendment that extends their commercial livestock operations on Park lands for at least 20 years. The plan amendment – the first epic public lands fail by the nascent Biden administration []
Continue Reading “America’s largest wind farm:” An environmental disaster? On September 15, 2021 ByRecent news stories focus on how a conservation easement on a large ranch in northwest Colorado is blocking a major new transmission line, and therefore stalling the enormous Chokecherry-Sierra Madre wind farm in southcentral Wyoming. While these articles make some valid points about the need for renewable energy, they gloss over the reality that []
Continue Reading Point Reyes National Seashore Capitulates to Ranchers On September 14, 2021 ByIs this kind of damage from private livestock the kind of impact the National Park Service should permit? Photo George Wuerthner
The final Record of Decision (ROD) on livestock operations management at Point Reyes National Seashore was released this []
Continue Reading Bighorn National Forest To Destroy Sagebrush On September 10, 2021 ByThe Bighorn National Forest is one of the hidden gems of the West. With peaks towering to over 13,000 feet and spacious flower-studded meadows, the forest is an underappreciated scenic and wildlife haven of the West.
The Cloud Peak Wilderness on the Bighorn National Forest is a lake-studded area of granite basins. []
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