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 …
Trigger Happy Wyoming Government Officials Just waiting to Slaughter Wolves
It would sound Like Wyoming Government Officials stand ready to let people start squeezing the Trigger on a Population that isn’t even close to being recovered Wyoming mum on its plan for wolves Representatives for Gov. Matt Mead have not responded to phone calls about Wyoming’s plan for regaining control over its wolf population, which is now managed …
New study questions wolf hunting policies – Jackson Hole News&Guide: Environmental
It still saddens me that State Managers set wolf numbers so terribly Low!! A new academic paper in the journal Science questions whether ecological theory and sound data are playing a role in determining wolf hunting seasons in the northern Rockies. The paper, written by an international group of 14 carnivore biologists, argues that current wolf hunting pressure is not …
New feedground plan bans anti-wolf efforts
The Bridger-Teton National Forest has asked the Wyoming Game and Fish Department to change its management plans to prohibit killing wolves that are preying on elk gathered at forestland feedgrounds. The request came as part of the Bridger-Teton’s decision to OK the continuation of an elk feeding operation on 91 acres up the Gros Ventre River drainage at Alkali Creek. …