Thursday, February 09, 2012
Click here for RSS feedBILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Yellowstone National Park administrators plan to capture and ship to slaughter potentially hundreds of wild bison if they migrate into Montana this winter in a bid to reduce disease and control the population of the animals. The captures could begin as soon as mid- ...
Saturday, February 04, 2012 2:27 PM
KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) -- Wildlife officials in Montana added a third day in their effort to capture bighorn sheep from Wild Horse Island in Flathead Lake. Officials through Friday had captured 29 bighorns as part of their plan to transplant 50 to the Tendoy mountains, about 40 miles south of Di ...
Saturday, February 04, 2012 2:27 PM
JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) -- A new sprinkler system at the National Elk Refuge is spreading the elk and bison and delaying the need for supplemental feeding. A refuge biologist told the Jackson Hole News and Guide for a story published Saturday that the new $5.1 million system is still producing forag ...
Saturday, January 28, 2012 2:18 PM
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Wolves attacking livestock or dogs in Michigan can now be killed under a new management plan instituted by the state, but hunting or trapping the animals remains illegal. Michigan has more flexibility in handling problem wolves now that wolves in the western Great Lakes reg ...
Saturday, January 28, 2012 2:18 PM
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Wildlife managers are running out of options when it comes to helping Mexican gray wolves overcome hurdles that have thwarted reintroduction into their historic range in the Southwest. Harassment and rubber bullets haven't worked, so they're trying something new -- a ...
Saturday, January 28, 2012 2:09 PM
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The state Department of Natural Resources is telling landowners they can start hunting problem wolves next week. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last month removed wolves in Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota from the federal endangered species list. Starting Friday, the ...
Sunday, January 22, 2012 5:21 PM
(http://bit.ly/yJerdq ) he tracked a 100-yard radius around the home where the attack took place and found tracks more closely resembling dogs or coyotes. After the attack, local authorities placed blame on four wolves. Idaho rules allow citizens to shoot wolves only if they have a huntin ...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 8:05 AM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Montana officials are proposing another extension of the state's gray wolf hunt as harvest numbers continue to lag original expectations. Hunting in a portion of the Bitterroot Valley along the Idaho border would be allowed through April 1 or until hunters meet the area' ...
Monday, January 16, 2012 7:43 AM
BUTTE, Mont. (AP) -- Hunters in Butte want more wolves, black bears and mountain lions killed to increase deer, elk and moose numbers. Hunters told Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks biologists last week that more predator control is needed so more game species are available for hun ...
Monday, January 16, 2012 7:43 AM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Opponents of a plan to relocate 68 wild bison to two American Indian Reservations in Montana have filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the transfer of the animals. Wednesday's lawsuit was filed in state District Court in Blaine County by a coalition of property owners, ranche ...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 5:14 PM
BAKER CITY, Ore. (AP) -- A mild winter may be causing the Elkhorn Mountains elk to shun the state-provided hay they usually munch on. The Baker City Herald reports that (http://bit.ly/wtz853) bales of protein rich alfalfa hay have gone untouched at the Elkhorn Wildlife Area feeding sites and loca ...
Sunday, January 08, 2012 1:58 PM
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- The appointment of an Eastern Washington environmentalist to the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission has upset some rural officials, who say their small-town values are unfairly being pushed aside in favor of big-city views about what's best for nature. Okanogan ...
Saturday, January 07, 2012 1:38 PM
LIVINGSTON, Mont. (AP) -- Wildlife officials are monitoring bighorn sheep from a southern Park County herd that was hit by pneumonia to gauge the risk of a large-scale die-off of the animals. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks biologist Karen Loveless told the Livingston Enterprise that five shee ...
Wednesday, January 04, 2012 7:45 AM
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota wildlife officials are deciding whether a Harding County ranch hand can keep a mountain lion he killed while working on another rancher's land, in a complicated case that has the president of the state Wildlife Federation wondering if the shooter should actually ...
Monday, January 02, 2012 8:03 AM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- The return of gray wolves has dramatically altered the landscape in portions of Yellowstone National Park, as new trees take root in areas where the predators have curbed the size of foraging elk herds, according to scientists in a new study. Stands of aspen, willow an ...
Monday, January 02, 2012 7:43 AM
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Hunters in the northern Plains who've grown accustomed to bringing home three pheasants or a deer are finding the years of abundance may be over. Three brutal winters and a steady loss of habitat have hurt reproduction and reduced the number of animals hunters ha ...
Friday, December 30, 2011 2:03 PM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer says he will allow some trout eggs to be shipped from a federal hatchery after blocking out-of-state shipments last week in a wildlife management dispute with the Interior Department. Schweitzer said Wednesday two shipments totaling 14 ...
Wednesday, December 28, 2011 8:42 AM
SANDPOINT, Idaho (AP) -- Commissioners for northern Idaho's Bonner County hope lawmakers and other local government officials will join them in challenging a plan to protect habitat for about 50 remaining woodland caribou in the region. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed designatin ...
Wednesday, December 28, 2011 8:01 AM
LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) -- It's unclear how a rider attached to a federal spending bill by Idaho Republican Rep. Mike Simpson will affect a plan by the Payette National Forest to protect bighorn sheep, U.S. Forest Service officials say. The plan calls for reducing domestic sheep and goat grazing b ...
Monday, December 26, 2011 7:40 AM
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) -- Commissioners who govern northern Idaho's Bonner County fear a plan to protect habitat for woodland caribou will create economic hardships in rural areas. The Spokesman-Review reports (http://bit.ly/sU4YHN ) the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed designatin ...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 7:51 AM
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Minnesota officials on Wednesday welcoming the federal government's decision to drop the Great Lakes region's gray wolves from the endangered species next month and said the state might open a hunting and trapping season this fall. Department of Natural Resources Commissio ...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 11:11 AM
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Oregon State University researchers have found that it takes only a generation for steelhead raised in fish hatcheries to pass along bad genetic traits to wild populations. The findings are the latest in a growing body of evidence showing the downside to hatcheries as a way ...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 4:41 PM
SEATTLE (AP) -- Elk have become such a nuisance, tearing up fairways and greens, at a Snoqualmie golf course that the Washington Fish and Wildlife Department is bringing out the big guns. Two or three of the animals could be killed as soon as Monday, when the TPC Snoqualmie Ridge golf cou ...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 1:45 PM
By the Wallowa County Chieftain ENTERPRISE, Ore. -- Wolves from the Imnaha pack killed a cow Dec. 11 at a ranch on Upper Imnaha Road, state wildlife managers said. The fatal attack, confirmed by the local Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's wolf investigation team, killed a yearling heifer ...
Monday, December 12, 2011 3:45 PM
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Montana on Thursday extended its wolf hunt to Feb. 15 as the number of predators killed so far has fallen far short of the quota of 220 animals. The state's Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission also approved a plan to allow hunters to assist state and federal official ...
Thursday, December 08, 2011 8:51 AM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Montana officials are turning new attention to elk as the source of the disease brucellosis following a string of infections in livestock, with plans to alter management of the popular big game species in parts of the state around Yellowstone National Park. Bison i ...
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