BOISE, Idaho (AP) – The U.S. Forest Service says it’s investigating after Idaho officials reported inadvertently putting tracking collars on four wolves during recent helicopter flights into a central Idaho wilderness restricted to putting collars on elk. Idaho Department of Fish and Game Deputy Director Ed Schriever in a statement Wednesday says the agency didn’t clearly communicate to one of …
Why we need to stop killing Denali Park wolves, and how we can try
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. …