Posted in Government Agency, Hunting, Idaho, Montana, Reintroduction, Trapping, USFWS, USFWS Delisting, Wolves, Wyoming on Feb 11th, 2013
Norman Bishop, retired Yellowstone Park ranger and big game sportsman cites the latest stats on wolf recovery and wolf management in the Northern Rockies. The Wildlife News The wolf issue: What science suggests; the players, and our role. By Norman A. Bishop I will briefly sample a few recent studies, many of which were enabled by wolf [...]
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Posted in Co-existence, Government Agency, Hunting, Idaho, Montana, Reintroduction, Trapping, USFWS, USFWS Delisting, Wolves, Wyoming on Feb 11th, 2013
On the heels of federal de-listing in the Northern Rockies, a stew of paramilitary anti-federalists, anti-conservationists, welfare ranchers, and fantasies of private hunter ownership over public, taxpayer supported public ungulates are behind the decimation of recovering wolf populations. Earth Island Journal James William Gibson Lynne Stone, longtime wolf advocate and executive director of central Idaho’s Boulder [...]
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Posted in Hunting, Wyoming on Jul 19th, 2012
Last week we felt we had reason to cheer when we read headlines that appeared to give the Black Hills cougar population—the primary source of cougars entering the Midwest but one under assault by draconian hunting quotas—some reprieve: “Commission rejects unlimited cougar hunts.” (See link at bottom of this preface.) That’s what we wanted, wasn’t [...]
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Posted in Hunting, Wyoming on Jul 8th, 2012
This is a must-read overview of the Wyoming Black Hills cougar controversy http://trib.com/lifestyles/home-and-garden/portion-of-growing-lion-population-could-face-unlimited-hunting/article_f5657e35-0ce8-55fb-a687-7ba2a3f774b8.html trib.com Portion of growing lion population could face unlimited hunting For Wallace Lyons, the trouble started two years ago. He’d known mountain lions roamed the rolling hills near his ranch. Like others near Hulett, he’d seen the tracks and scat, but they [...]
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Posted in Action Alert, Hunting, Wyoming on Jun 11th, 2012
Tuesday is the deadline for submitting comments on the proposal to create a unlimited kill zone in the Wyoming Black Hills. See our previous ALERT on this situation – http://cougarrewilding.org/CougarNews/?p=5577 . Many documents have been posted in Cougar Rewilding’s Bibliography section in section entitled “Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming” – http://www.easterncougar.org/pages/bibliography.html We will [...]
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Posted in Hunting, Wyoming on Jun 10th, 2012
By Tom Huhnerkoch The map shows cougars killed legally in Wyoming and South Dakota during the 2011-2012 cougar hunting seasons. 247 lions were harvested in all of Wyoming, 41 of them in the Hunt Areas 1 and 30 (Black Hills & Bear Lodge Mountains). So A1 and A30 make up 16% of the total [...]
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Posted in Hunting, Preservation, Wyoming on Jun 5th, 2012
You live in New York or Raleigh, North Carolina. Why should you care about the fate of cougars in the Black Hills? Because a majority of the young dispersers that have been turning up in the Midwest were born in the Black Hills. The ongoing drastic reduction of the number of cougars in the Black Hills of [...]
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Posted in Hunting, Wyoming on May 18th, 2012
Letter to Editor, Sundance Times, from Dr. Tom Huhnerkoch This is my last note to the good people in Wyoming and SD who are truly concerned about ‘their’ wildlife, with emphasis on the Black Hills cougars. Please come to the meeting next week, May 24th, 7pm in the Sundance courthouse basement. Do not [...]
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