YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK – For six months every two years, Kirsty Peake and her husband move from the United Kingdom to Montana for one reason: to spend the winter watching wolves. “We never come in the summer; there are too many people,” she said while standing next to her spotting scope near Tower Junction on a relatively warm morning – …
Courthouse News Service
TUCSON (CN) – Environmental groups on Friday sued the Secretary of the Interior for calling the endangered Mexican gray wolf an “experimental population,” and allowing them to be killed. The Fish and Wildlife Service’s treatment of the Mexican gray wolf as an experimental population limits the number of the wolves in the wild and lets them be killed, the …
Livestock Losses
People need to get educated on numbers…. But people like Ronald Arnce just make statements without knowing the facts! Livestock Losses Cattle Myth: Wolves, coyotes, mountain lions, bears, and others kill lots of cattle. Truth: Less than a quarter of one percent, 0.23%, of the American cattle inventory was lost to native carnivores and dogs in 2010, according to a …
Poachers Kill More Game Animals than Wolves, North Idaho Officials Say
This is an Old story, but I see people need to be educated on the facts!LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — Poachers are likely killing far more game animals than wolves are, state wildlife officials in northern Idaho say. Officials tell the Lewiston Tribune in a story on Friday that last year in northern Idaho they confirmed poaching of 30 elk, four moose, 13 …