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National WolfWatcher Coalition. Posted in: All News, Front Page News, News, North American Wolves News, Northern Rockies News, Take Action, WolfWatcher Yellowstone Wolf Project biologists are speaking out about a record number of wolves that were lost to this year’s hunting season in an article, “YNP biologists struggle to maintain wolf research,” published in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, Feb. 9, 2013.
“This is the first year that wolves were hunted on every side of the park. They’ve learned to tolerate people in the park, but that gets them in trouble if they leave. Some wandered outside the park, and within six hours, they were dead…The park has an international constituency and our mission is preservation. The kills are a big hit on our research, but another big concern for us is that too many kills affect visitor enjoyment,” said YNP wolf biologist Doug Smith. Yellowstone National Park is posting record attendance numbers – a 2% increase to 3.4 million visitors in 2012. Governor@mt.gov and. Governor Bullock, Don’t Buy Into The Wolf Hysteria, VETO HB 73!! February 8, 2013 by wolfpreservation “A typical wolf about to take your children and eat your job”..Rational Wiki This article and picture comes from “Wolf Warriors” ( so special thanks to them!
UPDATE: February 7, 2013. Wildlife bills take aim at bison, wolves - The Bozeman Daily Chronicle: Legislature. Posted: Wildlife bills take aim at bison, wolves LAURA LUNDQUIST, Chronicle Staff Writer The Bozeman Daily Chronicle | 0 Comments Bison and wolves will face a little more pressure from hunters if bills by two local legislators are successful.
In the House Fish and Game Committee, Rep. Ted Washburn, R-Bozeman, introduced House Bill 328, which would allow Fish, Wildlife & Parks biologists to provide hunters with the general location of bison. An online service is needed to view this article in its entirety. Montana officials abandon attempts to protect scientifically important wolves. This Huffington Post article further explains the impact of the court decision, and the following decision by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks to stop any attempts to close the affected areas.
BILLINGS, Mont. — Montana wildlife officials said Monday that they were abandoning their efforts to shut down gray wolf hunting and trapping just outside the gates of Yellowstone National Park, citing a recent court ruling that threatened to drag out the issue until the season was almost over. Hunting and trapping were briefly suspended last month on about 60 square miles north of Yellowstone over concerns that too many wolves wandering out of the park were dying. That included the shooting of several wolves collared for scientific research and management purposes. Mobile-touch-2. Lion hunter says wolves killed 3 dogs in Ninemile. STEVENSVILLE – Drew Zeiler thought he had done everything right before he let his three mountain lion dogs go on a set of fresh tracks Sunday afternoon.
The 20-year-old Stevensville man had been hunting with others in the Ninemile drainage north of Missoula since Sept. 3. In all that time, they had not seen any sign of wolves in the area. This day wasn’t any different. Lawsuit against FWP Commission - The Bozeman Daily Chronicle: Wildlife. Posted: Wednesday, January 2, 2013 6:01 pm A lawsuit brought by Citizens for Balanced Use, Big Game Forever, Montana Outfitters and Guides Association, Montana Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife and Rep.
Alan Redfield against the FWP Commission, filed Jan. 2, 2013. Helena IR - Mobile. Mobile-touch-2. Circuit court declares Northern Rockies wolf-hunting case moot. A part of the legal fight over hunting wolves in the Northern Rockies officially disappeared from the record when the 9th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals declared the case moot on Wednesday. In 2010, federal District Court Judge Donald Molloy ruled that gray wolves were improperly stripped of Endangered Species Act protection in Montana and Idaho. Later that year, Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., got an amendment through Congress declaring wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains a recovered species under the ESA and blocking any further legal review.
Molloy, in a separate decision, agreed Congress had the power to shield the issue from court review even though he thought such power was unconstitutional. View images of the devastation traps cause (warning: graphic photos!) Since there is no mandatory trap check required – MTFWP merely recommends that trappers check their traplines every 48 hours, trapped animals may linger in traps or snares for several days and nights, while exposed to pain and panic (physiological and psychological trauma), extreme temperatures, hypothermia, and other predators.
Injuries range from lacerations, dislocated joints and broken bones. Some animals have found to chew off their limb that is caught in a trap (“wring off”). Death in traps occurs through strangulation or drowning, freezing or starvation (whatever comes first) before trapper returns to either club them to death, stand on their chest to crush inner organs or shoot them in the head (saves pelts). Wolf worries. Forest Service employee Josh Bransford posted a photo online earlier this year that ended up going viral.
The image showed Bransford kneeling in front of a bloodied, shot-up gray wolf caught in a leg-hold trap in Idaho. Bransford grinned proudly while his catch was still alive in the background. The Missoula-based anti-trapping group Footloose Montana discovered Bransford's photo shortly after the Idaho trapper posted it. The group's outrage quickly spread to other environmental organizations and news agencies picked up the story, as well as the image. Bransford made headlines as far away as the United Kingdom for what many agree was a highly unethical decision. Wolves and bald eagles poisoned in the Bob Marshall Wilderness. Six of America’s symbolic bird and four wolves fall to poison in vicinity of the Big Prairie Ranger Station- Last May six bald eagles and four wolves were found dead in the general area of the Big Prairie Ranger Station inside the Bob Marshall Wilderness of NW Montana.
This is far up the South Fork of the Flathead River, deep in the Wilderness Area. Toxicology reports that they were poisoned. Here is the news release from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. U.S. Todd Wilkinson: With elk and wolves, someone is fibbing. Guest column: With elk and wolves, someone is fibbing - The Bozeman Daily Chronicle: Opinion. Posted: | Updated: Guest column: With elk and wolves, someone is fibbing By Todd Wilkinson, Guest Columnist The Bozeman Daily Chronicle | 0 Comments Nearly a decade ago, I wrote a column about the doomsday predictions of Robert T. Fanning, Jr., then chairman of a wolf-loathing group called Friends of the Northern Yellowstone Elk Herd. Shortly after the new millennium began, Mr.
Fanning made several bold statements. Howling for Wolves in Helena: A rally to stop the killing of wolves. 2012-13 Proposed Wolf Hunting Seasons, Quotas, and Hunting District Boundaries. Fwp.mt.gov/fwpDoc.html?id=55779. Environmental group doesn't want wolf trapping near Yellowstone Park. Wolf-hunt plan that includes allowing trapping gets initial OK. Dr. Nathan Varley's Letter to MtFWP.pdf. Montana’s county commissions take on gray wolves - The Bozeman Daily Chronicle: Wildlife. Dissatisfied with state and federal agencies’ wolf management policies, Montana politicians are taking steps to ensure they have a say in those practices. Madison County commissioners recently passed a law placing a $100 bounty on any legally killed wolf. Montana’s county commissions take on gray wolves. May 15, 2012 by wolfpreservation Posted: Sunday, May 13, 2012 12:15 am JODI HAUSEN, Chronicle Staff Writer “Dissatisfied with state and federal agencies’ wolf management policies, Montana politicians are taking steps to ensure they have a say in those practices.
Madison County commissioners recently passed a law placing a $100 bounty on any legally killed wolf. Jefferson and Ravalli counties passed resolutions obliging wildlife agencies to notify commissioners when considering changes to predator management policies in or near their jurisdictions. The Politics of the Montana Wolf Hunt. George Wuerthner is an ecologist with among others, a degree in wildlife biology, and is a former Montana hunting guide. He has published 35 books and reports the following: “On July 12, 2012, the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks (MDFWP) Commissioners voted 4-0 to increase wolf hunting in the state, expanding the hunting season and permitting the trapping of wolves for the first time as well. The goal is to reduce wolf numbers across the state in hopes that it will calm the hysteria that presently surrounds wolf management.
The commission’s decision to boost wolf hunting and trapping will likely lead to greater conflicts between humans and wolves because MDFWP’s management ignores the social ecology of predators. Hunting predators tends to skew populations towards younger animals. The Politics of the Montana Wolf Hunt. On July 12, 2012, the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks (MDFWP) Commissioners voted 4-0 to increase wolf hunting in the state, expanding the hunting season and permitting the trapping of wolves for the first time as well. The goal is to reduce wolf numbers across the state in hopes that it will calm the hysteria that presently surrounds wolf management.
The commission’s decision to boost wolf hunting and trapping will likely lead to greater conflicts between humans and wolves because MDFWP’s management ignores the social ecology of predators. Hunting predators tends to skew populations towards younger animals. Younger animals are inexperienced hunters and thus are more likely to attack livestock. Kalispell Hearing Today on Wolf Trapping Proposal and Other Bad Stuff… 4a. Reduce wolf impacts on livestock. Wolves: RMEF buying wildlife management.
Natureandscience. Wolf-hunt plan that includes allowing trapping gets initial OK. Cry, Wolf. How a Campaign of Fear and Intimidation Led to the Gray Wolf’s Removal from the Endangered Species List.