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Watch out for Wyoming wolf bill – Wolf management will be on the top of the agenda for Wyoming legislators who convene for a short 20-day budget session next week (See Sublette Examiner for full story). Although the federal government has already issued its proposed delisting rule for wolves in Wyoming, the state legislature must first adopt a new wolf management plan. The draft legislation tracks with the provisions outlined in an agreement between Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead and Interior... Read Full Story
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Just before the holidays, Defenders joined two local conservation groups in a lawsuit voicing concerns over exploratory drilling for a proposed silver mine on the Coronado National Forest in southern Arizona.
The Hardshell Project site threatens habitat for endangered Mexican spotted owls, lesser long-nosed bats, and could cut off key migration corridors for ocelots and jaguars. The Forest Service is allowing these companies to destroy our federal lands with little to no consideration of... Read Full Story
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In Memory of David Gaillard.
As we carry on the work of our colleague Dave Gaillard, lost in an avalanche on New Year’s Eve, we want to share two last noteworthy tributes because of what they can teach us and because, well, he deserves them.
The first, a resolution of the Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Commission, highlights the value of the kind and respectful way Dave conducted his life and work. We are not always in full agreement with the Commission, but their appreciation of Dave and... Read Full Story
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Published to Polar Bears on the Endangered Species List
Ruling restores vital role of wildlife experts in forest fire planning
Golden eagle.
WASHINGTON (Feb. 7, 2012) – The U.S. District Court of D.C. struck down Bush administration regulations yesterday that would have allowed National Fire Plan projects to move forward without consulting the government’s own wildlife experts. Defenders initially challenged the regulations in 2006, arguing that the regulations violated long-standing Endangered Species Act procedures that help protect the... Read Full Story
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By Doug Ramsey, Public News Service – AZ
Listen to this story with biologist Philip Hedrick on the Public News Service.
PHOENIX – The number of endangered Mexican gray wolves in Arizona and New Mexico continued to rise last year. State and federal biologists found at least 58 wolves in their latest count, up from 50 the previous year and 42 in 2009.
Arizona State University biology professor Philip Hedrick calls it good news, but says the best news is that the number of breeding pairs... Read Full Story
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Wolves, like this on in the Cascade Mountains, are receiving the ire of the Yakima County Farm Bureau even though only one livestock loss has been attributed to wolves in Washington in more than five years.
Tempers flare in Pacific Northwest – Though there are fewer than 30 wolves in Washington, and the state’s wolf management plan has only recently been approved, wolf opponents are already pushing for more aggressive control actions. Legislators are proposing a significant decrease in the... Read Full Story
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The number of endangered Mexican gray wolves living in the wild increased in 2011.
BREAKING: The number of endangered Mexican wolves, or lobos, in Arizona and New Mexico increased last year to 58 wolves and six breeding pairs, up from 50 wolves and two breeding pairs in 2010, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today.
The small boost is big news around here. Mexican wolves are the most endangered subspecies of gray wolf in North America.
To get a better idea of what this means... Read Full Story
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Mexican gray wolf numbers were up in 2011.
TUCSON, Ariz.—The number of endangered Mexican gray wolves surviving in the southwestern United States increased in 2011 to 58 wolves and six breeding pairs up from 50 wolves and two breeding pairs the year before, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today.
But Defenders of Wildlife is urging Arizona state and federal wildlife officials to release new wolves into the wild to strengthen the population — cautioning that despite the... Read Full Story
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Help protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Photo courtesy of USFWS
BREAKING: Republican leaders of the House Natural Resources Committee today did the bidding of Big Oil once again and voted to open up the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, the protected eastern Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Bristol Bay to oil drilling all under the pretext of funding this year’s transportation bill.
Conservative politicians have always wanted to open the... Read Full Story
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Idaho's wolves are in the crosshairs. You can help save them. Please take action now!
Will your tax dollars pay for an ill-conceived aerial wolf cull in Northeastern Idaho – an unscientific plan to boost game populations that could kill as many as two thirds of the wolves in the Lolo District of the Clearwater National Forest?
Tell President Obama to stop aerial wolf killing in Idaho before it starts. Send your message right now.
The Idaho Fish and Game Commission has asked federal... Read Full Story
