It is no secret that Alaska is in deep fiscal trouble. Out of necessity, the governor has just proposed deep cuts to many services. Most alarming is to cut education funding to the core; reinstate taxes; and halve Permanent Fund dividend checks. The state’s income stream has dropped by 88 percent. We need new revenue, fast. Within Denali National Park and Preserve, …
Federal agency tentatively OKs wolf management plan in Wyoming
JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Environmental groups are objecting to how a federal agency has developed a new management plan for handling conflicts between wolves and livestock producers in Wyoming. Wildlife Services, an agency with the U.S. Agriculture Department’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, completed an environmental planning document last fall that favored its current lethal and nonlethal wolf conflict …
Lawsuit challenges helicopter use in Idaho wilderness
Helicopter use causes unneeded stress on an animal…. BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Three environmental groups sued the U.S. Forest Service to challenge a decision allowing helicopters to land in a central Idaho wilderness area so state wildlife officials can outfit elk with tracking collars. Wilderness Watch, Western Watersheds Project and Friends of the Clearwater filed the lawsuit Thursday in U.S. …
Kellogg Leaves California Commission Mid-Term
Jim Kellogg has stated that he is resigning from the California Fish and Game Commission, expressing frustration with the Commission’s recent actions to protect wildlife. Kellogg showed little consideration to anyone on the commission or testifying before it who placed a concern for wildlife before the short term goals of hunters. “For the past couple of years, I’ve been losing …