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Protecting the Sage-Grouse in a Sea of Natural Gas

September 15, 2015 by The Outpost 0 comments

While stopping short of full endangered species protections for the Greater Sage-Grouse, the Obama-era Fish and Wildlife Service implemented land use plans to restrict energy development and grazing in the expanse of northwestern U.S. desert called the Sagebrush Sea, depicted in a 2015 documentary. The Trump Interior Department attempted to amend that plan to open up more commercial activities. We feature here an essay on Wyoming’s core plan attempts to salvage the state’s last populations in a landscape dominated by energy development.

Wildlife

Living With Wolves: Science Must Inform Politics

July 22, 2014 by The Outpost 1 comment

Reviled by ranchers and hunters, managed through “harvesting” by state wildlife agencies, with ardent conservationists its last hope, the gray wolf has cut a controversial wake in the North American landscape ever since it was reintroduced from Canada in 1995. Watch the film on Earth Focus.

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Wolves Forsaken By Wildlife Agencies, Hunters and Ranchers

June 11, 2013 by The Outpost 3 comments

President Obama’s Department of the Interior announced the national delisting of all wolves except the Mexican wolf. Prominent conservationists argue this is wrong-headed because (1) the wolf isn’t really recovered, and (2) Existing state management is so bad that the “recovered” population will soon decline to nothing but a tiny token population.

Wildlife

Wolf Wars: Anti-Science Haters Propose Ending All US Protections

March 27, 2013 by The Outpost 1 comment

Western environmental groups oppose the anti-scientific “political” Endangered Species delisting of gray wolves across the U.S. by Fish and Wildlife Service. Reduced wolf numbers will reduce positive ecological effects of these top predators and permit barbaric hunting methods.

Rituals and Traditions, Wildlife

California Condor: Overcoming Extinction, A Symbol of Renewal

March 6, 2013 by Jack Eidt 2 comments

The California Condor Recovery Program has defied the odds to rescue from oblivion the last of the prehistorics and icon of Native Californian cosmology. Threats such as lead ammunition, microtrash, and sprawling land development threaten these impressive gains of an endangered species. The film “The Condor’s Shadow” documents this struggle.

Grizzly Bears rarely pose dangers to humans in the wild

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George Wuerthner: Habitat Conservation, Not Hunting, Saves Grizzly Bears

January 4, 2013 by The Outpost 1 comment

Wildlife Agencies advocate hunting helps grizzly recovery. The best available science, however, suggests predators including bears, wolves, mountain lion and coyotes have intricate social interactions that are disrupted or damaged by indiscriminate killing from hunters and trappers. Habitat protection is the main way to protect the fledgling population of grizzly bears as well as avoid human-bear conflicts.

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Idaho: Wolves and Wilderness Persist in the Bitterroot Mountains

February 15, 2012 by Jack Eidt 3 comments

Since the time of the Louisiana Purchase, the people of the United States have worked to tame the Bitteroot Mountains of Idaho and Montana, but the rushing rivers and wandering wolves still retain the air of the wild.

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