Funny the things you don’t see in the national news. There was a big hurrah about Pres. Obama putting a hold on George Bush’s last minute “midnight regulations,” which included a ruling that would remove gray wolves from the endangered species list. What I’ve heard recently via the National Resources Defense Council is that new … Continue reading Salazar removes protection for gray wolves
I’ve written several times about gray wolves in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming, and the battle being waged by conservationists to preserve their protected status. Among these wolves are those painstaking reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park over the last ten years. Imagine my excitement when I read today that one of the Yellowstone wolves has been … Continue reading Yellowstone wolf tracked to Colorado
I’ve written before about the status of gray wolves in the U.S. Those are the ones the Bush administration kept trying to get removed from the endangered species list so they could be hunted. Last summer the wolves were delisted and big public hunts had already been planned when a courageous judge in Montana stepped … Continue reading Wolves still howling out west
Our dear lame-duck president just can’t seem to rein in his sneaky, backdoor impulses. I guess it would be too obvious for him to step up like the president he still is and do something really public, like take some action on our sinking economy. No, he’d rather work behind the scenes, modest SOB that … Continue reading I feel so much safer now
The Bush administration is determined to go after the gray wolves in our Northern Rockies. Yet another plan is in the works to allow mass hunts of a species still struggling to regain a viable population in the Lower 48. You’d think in the last days of his presidency, George Bush could find a more … Continue reading Bush going after wolves … again
[Please note this article was published in 2008. The budget bill passed by Congress in April 2011 contained a rider that removed wolves from the Endangered Species List. They are no longer protected.] Here’s an update on an earlier post about the protection of gray wolves in the lower 48 possibly being removed. In July, … Continue reading Reintroduced gray wolves keep protected status
