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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.

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Living With Wolves: Science Must Inform Politics

July 22, 2014 by The Outpost 1 comment

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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

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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.

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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.

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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Grizzly Bears and Humans: Habitat Protection Ensures Coexistence

September 2, 2011 by Jack Eidt 0 comments

The paths of grizzly bears and humans often collide, with fatal consequences for both parties. Despite protected lands such as national parks, the former’s survival depends upon establishing roaming corridors across private land and highways. The Vital Ground Foundation is doing just that.

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Energy

Fracking Study: Contamination Happens

August 11, 2011 by Jack Eidt 6 comments

For years the drilling industry has insisted there has never been a proven case in which hydraulic fracturing, or natural gas fracking, has led to contamination of drinking water. Now Environmental Working Group has unearthed a 24-year-old case study by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that unequivocally says such contamination has occurred.

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