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Idaho hunters kill 96 wolves

Posted on November 19, 2012 | Leave a comment

At last count, that is. And Idaho Fish and Game officials in Boise get to tally up the hunting and trapping license revenue, cause that’s how the agency’s budget gets its m0ney (mostly). Meantime, the increasingly muddied ecosystems which gray wolves patrol (regardless of political boundary lines) struggle on. The human propensity for killing carnivores is alive and well. The first near-extinction of Canis lupus didn’t teach enough. Sadly, I know for certain that are conservationists in the Adirondacks who continue to advocate for the return of big predators to that still-mostly-wild region. This link offers a snapshot of the wolf-killing ongoing in Idaho.

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Posted in Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness, gray wolf, Idaho, Idaho and wolves, Idaho Fish and Game Department, Idaho wildlife, wild nature, wilderness, Wilderness Act of 1964, wildness, wolf bounty, wolf mythology, wolf predation, wolves

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Wolf-kill attempts decried

Posted on August 25, 2012 | 1 comment

Seven conservation organizations sent a letter today calling on Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire and state agencies to rescind a state Department of Fish and Wildlife plan to thwart attacks on cattle by killing wolves in the Wedge Pack in northeastern Washington. WDFW officials announced last week that up to four wolves may be killed in the Stevens County area near the Canada border after the latest in a series of wolf attacks that had injured six cattle and killed two. The state killed a wolf in that area on Aug. 7. The war on predators continues, all to please livestock growers who get a big break on the fees they pay to graze federal public land.

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Posted in gray wolf, Washington Stae, wolf mythology, wolf predation, wolves

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‘Kitty cam’ shows cats’ predation of wildlife

Posted on August 8, 2012 | Leave a comment

The killing of native wildlife, especially songbirds, by roaming house cats has hardly been unknown for years by wildlife professionals. Yet, those who let their house cats roam freely, or worse yet feed feral cats, continue doing a disservice to both their pets and our native wildlife heritage. Watch this camera to get an eyeful of cats in action.

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Posted in American Bird Conservancy, cats, songbirds

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‘The damage is ugly,’ ex-Wildlife Services worker says

Posted on June 11, 2012 | Leave a comment

Wildlife Services, for those of you who were watching “reality” tee vee when you should have been writing your congressman, is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Wildlife Services kills our native wildlife. Besides being a huge subsidy to ranchers, landowners, etc., it is also just plain wrong. Read more right here. Then write your congressman.

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Posted in wildlife crime, wildlife issues, wildlife management, Wildlife Services

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USDA’s ‘Wildlife Services’ is the wildlife killing agency

Posted on June 10, 2012 | Leave a comment

And the killing is not pretty. Even Bald and Golden eagles have been killed by Wildlife Services field workers, as this in-depth newspaper article explains in excruciating detail. Wildlife Services isn’t just about protecting the livestock of “ranchers” who’ve leased federal public land (ours!). Nosiree. It’s about killing any and all native predators. And that’s how it has been for a bunch of decades. Time to stop the killing. The human usurpation of habitat for buildings, roads and parking lots is bad enough.

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Posted in bald eagles, cougar, coyotes, Golden Eagles, predation, predators, U.S. Department of Agriculture, welfare ranching, wildlife crime, wildlife habitat, wildlife issues, wildlife management, Wildlife Services

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To help forests and birds, stop helping deer

Posted on May 19, 2012 | Leave a comment

Yes! The writer of this op-ed deserves a medal for making the point that so many alleged conservationists (aka “sportsmen”) seem to ignore as they roam around in their pickup trucks with the windows rolled down looking for white-tails (in the East) and mule deer (in the West). Too many deer is THE issue facing forest after forest in Pennsylvania, where I lived for two decades and know only too well what browsing deer can do to other life forms. Why Bambi must go!

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Posted in deer, deer hunting, deer management, deer-car crashes, forest fragmentation, forest issues, forest-interior songbirds, forests, land ethic, mule deer, Pennsylvania Game Commission, white-tailed deer

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Last of the 1995 wolves released in Yellowstone is killed

Posted on May 18, 2012 | Leave a comment

I remember well the Associated Press photos that showed then-Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt assisting in the release of Gray Wolves at Yellowstone in 1995. It was a big show, of course, and it held great promise for the restoration of a key predator to the wild ecosystem of the Yellowstone region. Oh, but then, naturally, the “manage-the-wild strictly for deer and elk” crowd moved in, notably in Idaho, and the sanctioned killing of wolves began in earnest. Read about the death of one of those 1995 predators in this article.

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Posted in Endangered Species Act, endangered/threatened species, National Park Service, national parks, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, wild nature, wildlife crime, wildlife habitat, wildlife issues, wildlife management, wolf mythology, wolf predation, wolves, Yellowstone National Park

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N.M.-based group sues USDA over predator-killing program

Posted on May 2, 2012 | Leave a comment

The program is called “Wildlife Services” and it is hardly a positive, conservation-oriented program. This article by the Associated Press’s Scott Sonner gets into the meat – a little bit at least – of the conservationists’ argument.

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Posted in predation, predators, public lands, public lands ranching, wildlife crime, wildlife habitat, wildlife issues, Wildlife Services

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Can reintroduced species be taught to avoid predators?

Posted on March 29, 2012 | Leave a comment

That’s the query this article from “Conservation” takes measure of.

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How to deal with predator of bluebirds

Posted on March 20, 2012 | Leave a comment

In Pennsylvania, a bunch of years ago, I maintained a trail of more than a dozen nest boxes for bluebirds and tree swallows. It was great fun. Read this piece for ideas on how to deal with box issues like wasps.

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