USDA Wildlife Services to use $1.3 M to implement, evaluate nonlethal predation management tools
The USDA Wildlife Services (WS) program has identified 12 states where it will implement nonlethal strategies to reduce or prevent depredation on livestock by wildlife. The fiscal year 2020 budget…
Read More...Listed species grow as protections shrink
The Fish and Wildlife Service today increased the number of species covered by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, even as the agency prepares to narrow the law’s protections. In the…
Read More...Trump admin reopens Mexican wolf study
The Fish and Wildlife Service today reopened a debate over the best way to protect the Mexican wolf. Facing legal pressure, the agency announced plans to revise the “nonessential experimental…
Read More...Scientists disagree on bison impacts to Yellowstone’s Northern Range
A new report claiming that bison are damaging the Northern Range of Yellowstone National Park is drawing criticism from a park wildlife biologist who questions whether the scientists behind it…
Read More...Governors Grizzly Bear Advisory Council considers recommendations regarding hunting once delisted
When it comes to grizzly bears in Montana, hunting is more of a sociological and political tool rather than a biological one. “Whether or not there’s a hunting of grizzly…
Read More...Historic agreement to protect monarch butterfly issued by FWS
The candidate conservation agreement with assurances (CCAA) potentially applies to over 26 million acres managed by energy companies and departments of transportation across the United States. Via the agreement, public and…
Read More...Cattle conflicts prompt FWS to kill Mexican wolves
The killing of four Mexican gray wolves by U.S. wildlife officials has drawn the ire of environmentalists who say management of the species is undercutting efforts to restore the endangered…
Read More...Carcass removal available on Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front
In the ongoing effort to reduce conflicts between grizzly bears and livestock producers on the Rocky Mountain Front, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks…
Read More...BLM plan eyes 1,000 miles of new fuel breaks in 3 states
A plan to help in the battle against devastating wildfires creates fuel breaks 400 feet wide along 987 miles of roads in southwestern Idaho and southeastern Oregon that will be…
Read More...Fact vs. fiction: The effect wolves have on Yellowstone’s game animals, ecology
This is the second in a series of articles looking at the impact of reintroducing wolves in Yellowstone National Park 25 years ago. In an effort to separate fact from…
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