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Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Public Comments for The
MONTANA FISH, WILDLIFE & PARKS PUBLIC COMMENTS FOR THE 2021 WOLF SEASON COMMENTS PROCESSED AS OF JULY 26, 2021 1. Director Worsech, Please consider unlimited quota for hunting and trapping. I believe the trapping license should i nclude a minimum of 10 but really only 1 or 2 people would ever harvest more than that. But, w hy would we want to limit the few who can actually help control the overpopulation. A minimu m of 1 Wolf licenses should be included in the Sportsman License. Very few people would ever have the opportunity to harvest more than one but again, Why would we want to limit someone who could help. There are a lot of roads that are closed to vehicles that are not used by recreationalists that hav e restricted setbacks year around because they are open to vehicles at some point of the year. T hat makes no sense. If the road is open, then have set backs. If the road is closed, there are no setbacks until the road is opened again. If someone is too mentally challenged to understand thi s then they should not be out without supervision anyway. Wolves run the roads because it is the path of least resistance. Requiring traps to be 150 feet ba ck makes it impossible to put enough stink out for them to notice it. 2 of my friends and I trap a round St Regis and over the past 9 seasons have caught 28 wolves. One came off public land, th e rest were caught on private land where we could place traps close to the roads and trails. -
A Death of Ethics: Is Hunting Destroying Itself?
December 12, 2018 By Todd Wilkinson Available from: https://mountainjournal.org/ hunting-in-america-faces-an- ethical-reckoning Coyote taken in a winter predator hunt in Wyoming. Photo credit: #chasin_fur Instagram A Death Of Ethics: Is Hunting Destroying Itself? From killing baboon families to staging predator-killing contests, hunters stand accused of violating the north american model of wildlife conservation. Now they’re being called out by their own. Right now, as you read these words, it is perfectly legal in the state of Wyoming for a person to climb on the back of a snowmobile and chase down wild wolves, pursuing them until they drop from physical exhaustion. And, if that’s not enough, you can then run them over relentlessly with the machine, injuring them until they die. ProjectCoyote.org PROJECT COYOTE P.O. BOX 5007 LARKSPUR, CA 94977 A Death Of Ethics: Is Hunting Destroying Itself? You don’t need a hunting license, nor even a bullet to coyotes and their young offspring can be felled with of the state can be killed “with, from, or by use of kill a wolf. You can do the above with impunity across poison, flattened by ATVs, snared, and incinerated live any aircraft, automotive vehicle, trailer, 35 motor- roughly 85 percent of Wyoming which, as the “Cowboy by pouring gas or dynamite into their dens and then propelled wheeled vehicle or vehicle designed State” encompasses almost 98,000 square miles, lightning a match—acts that most would consider for travel over snow.” Predators are exceptions including vast sweeps of public land and excluding barbaric. -
Grizzly Face-Off the Yellowstone Grizzly Population Is Poised to Lose Federal Protections — for Better Or Worse by Gloria Dickie May 16, 2016 | $5 | Vol
PURLOINED PATHS | LAYOFFS AND LESSONS | BOOKS FOR THE EREMOCENE High Country ForN people whoews care about the West Grizzly Face-Off The Yellowstone grizzly population is poised to lose federal protections — for better or worse By Gloria Dickie May 16, 2016 | $5 | Vol. 48 No. 8 | www.hcn.org 48 No. | $5 Vol. 2016 16, May CONTENTS Editor’s note Grizzly fascination The professor’s assignment was open-ended: Get together with another graduate student and write about a current natural resource dilemma, one with lots of competing players. Both topic and partner came readily to mind: The Yellowstone grizzly bear intrigued not only me, but also my vivacious, intelligent colleague, Ann Harvey. That was back in 1985. The other day, I found our report buried deep inside an old file cabinet. It’s not poetry, but it captures the flavor of the landscape, as well as the politics of a place that has been one of my journalistic foci for decades now. And I am still friends with Ann, who has lived in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem ever since, and who continues to be an ardent wildlife advocate. Here’s the thing about grizzly bears: They create a human ecosystem every bit as interesting as the natural one. And that system is also populated by fierce and persistent individuals. Ann is one of many who have remained in the grizzly-shaped system for Yellowstone Valley photo guide, outtter and hunter Jim Laybourn wears a bear costume to help send a message at the Yellowstone Ecosystem Subcommittee meeting in Teton Village last November. -
FIELDREPORT Northern Rockies | Summer 2018
FIELDREPORT Northern Rockies | Summer 2018 The Endangered In Defense of Bears Species Act is Needed Now by Stephanie Adams potting a grizzly bear in the wild Last year, the U.S. Fish More Than Ever is a once-in-a-lifetime experience and Wildlife Service Sthat draws Americans from all 50 removed GYE grizzlies states to Yellowstone and Grand Teton from federal protection National Parks every year. The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE), with under what NPCA believes Yellowstone at its core, is one of the last is a flawed plan... remaining habitats large enough to support grizzlies in the lower 48. The ecosystem is currently home to approxi- Last year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service mately 720 bears, including renowned (Service) removed GYE grizzlies from federal grizzly “399,” who makes headlines every protection under what NPCA believes is a spring when she emerges at Grand Teton flawed plan, turning the management of by Sharon Mader with a handful of cubs. The path that grizzly bears outside of park boundaries over led to millions of visitors traveling to he Endangered Species Act (ESA), to state agencies in Idaho, Montana and these national parks for the chance to signed into law in 1973, directs Wyoming. Recovery of a species cannot be glimpse a grizzly did not occur overnight, federal agencies to “provide for the limited to simply increasing their numbers T and certainly not by accident. conservation of ecosystems upon which on the landscape. If we want to sustain bears threatened and endangered species of Grizzlies teetered on the brink of in Yellowstone and Grand Teton for future fish, wildlife, and plants depend.” The law generations, we must make sure strong classifies species as either endangered extinction in the 1970s until state and management plans and commitments are or threatened, and all species of plants federal land and wildlife managers in place to ensure their long-term health. -
A Death of Ethics: Is Hunting Destroying Itself?
https://mountainjournal.org/hunting-in-america-faces-an-ethical-reckoning A Death Of Ethics: Is Hunting Destroying Itself? From killing baboon families to staging predator-killing contests, hunters stand accused of violating the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation. Now they’re being called out by their own by Todd Wilkinson Coyote taken in a winter predator hunt in Wyoming. Photo credit: #chasin_fur Instagram Right now, as you read these words, it is perfectly legal in the state of Wyoming for a person to climb on the back of a snowmobile and chase down wild wolves, pursuing them until they drop from physical exhaustion. And, if that’s not enough, you can then run them over relentlessly with the machine, injuring them until they die. You don’t need a hunting license, nor even a bullet to kill a wolf. You can do the above with impunity across roughly 85 percent of Wyoming which, as the “Cowboy State” encompasses almost 98,000 square miles, including vast sweeps of public land and excluding only federal wilderness and places where motorized restrictions apply. You don’t need a reason to justify your actions either. Even if game wardens were to bear witness, it is highly unlikely you would catch any flak—unless your conduct happened to startle a deer, elk, pronghorn or domestic cow or horse, and then you might earn a scolding for harassing wildlife or livestock. In fact, wolves, which were recently taken off the list of federally-protected species and their management handed over to the state unconditionally in 2017, can be killed by virtually any means, any time of day, any day of the year, without limit in most of Wyoming. -
Famous Bear Death Raises Larger Questions
July 8 - 21, 2016 Volume 7 // Issue #14 New West: Famous bear death raises larger questions Bullock, Gianforte debate in Big Sky A glimpse into the 2016 fire season Paddleboarding then and now Inside Yellowstone Caldera Plus: Guide to mountain biking Big Sky #explorebigsky explorebigsky explorebigsky @explorebigsky ON THE COVER: Famous grizzly 399 forages for biscuitroot on June 6 in a meadow along Pilgrim Creek as her cub, known as Snowy, peeks out from the safety of her side. Less than two weeks later this precocious cub was hit and killed by a car in Grand Teton National Park. PHOTO BY THOMAS D. MANGELSEN July 8-21, 2016 Volume 7, Issue No. 14 Owned and published in Big Sky, Montana TABLE OF CONTENTS PUBLISHER Eric Ladd Section 1: News New West: EDITORIAL Famous bear death EDITOR / EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, MEDIA Opinion.............................................................................5 Joseph T. O’Connor raises larger questions Local.................................................................................6 SENIOR EDITOR/ DISTRIBUTION DIRECTOR Regional.........................................................................12 Tyler Allen Montana.........................................................................16 ASSOCIATE EDITOR Amanda Eggert Section 2: Environment, Sports, & Health CREATIVE SENIOR DESIGNER Taylor-Ann Smith Environment..................................................................17 GRAPHIC DESIGNER Sports.............................................................................21 Carie Birkmeier -
Grand Teton National Park Jackson District
National Park Service Craighead Beringia South Wyoming Game & Fish U.S. Department of the Interior State of Wyoming Grand Teton National Park Jackson District Howard Quigley Jackie Skaggs Mark Gocke 307-732-0188 307.739.3393 307.733.2383 ext 231 Interagency News Release For Immediate Release January 30, 2008 JACKSON- An ongoing mountain lion research project suffered a setback last Friday, January 25, when a lion kitten was killed during a routine capture operation in Grand Teton National Park. A local veterinarian and biologists from Craighead Beringia South, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, and Grand Teton National Park were attempting to capture the 7-month old kitten of a radio-collared adult female mountain lion, when tracking hounds caught and killed the young cougar. Lion researchers routinely use hounds to safely track and tree the cats so that they can be tranquilized, collared and released. Unfortunately, in this case the kitten involved was in such poor health that it was unable to climb a tree and escape the dogs. “We‟re obviously devastated by the loss of the kitten,” said Teton Cougar Project leader, Howard Quigley. “We have captured a number of cats this age, and even younger, and they‟ve always treed well ahead of the dogs. This kitten was so emaciated it likely couldn‟t climb a tree. There were dozens available.” A necropsy performed by the crew‟s veterinarian, reported „very little body fat‟ and „marked muscle atrophy.‟ Officials believed the young cat probably would not have survived the winter. The kitten‟s mother, known as F101, has been the most productive breeding female in the history of the project, but is now old and possibly quickly losing her ability to provide for her young. -
Wildlands Network Celebrates 25 Years of Reconnecting Nature Across North America
For the Wild Wildlands Network Celebrates 25 Years of Reconnecting Nature Across North America Twenty-five years. Half the lifespan of a chimpanzee, or a scarlet macaw lighting the tropical sky. Twice the age of an old wild cougar, who somehow eluded highways and guns. A few blinks of the eye for a bowhead whale, her baleen sifting the Beaufort across two centuries or more. And the silver anniversary of couples of our own kind, honoring the hard-earned stories they’ve created along the way. Wildlands Network, too, has accrued many stories since The eyes of the future are looking back at our founding twenty-five years ago, an impassioned union of science and activism on behalf of wild nature. us and they are praying for us to see The collection that follows celebrates this union and beyond our own time. They are kneeling the dedicated community of people—scientists, artists; with hands clasped that we might act with wild advocates, all—working to heal broken landscapes and rewild our hearts. restraint, that we might leave room for the life that is destined to come. To protect There’s no question that wild creatures great and small need our help even more today than they did a quarter- what is wild is to protect what is gentle. century ago; as Terry Tempest Williams tells us, “wild Perhaps the wilderness we fear is the mercy is in our hands.” May the essays, poems, and pause between our own heartbeats, the excerpts comprising this silver anniversary publication inspire you to explore the wild within, and to join us in silent space that says we live only by going for the gold—for the wild. -
Photographs of Thomas D. Mangelsen Todd Wilkinson
July 20, 2017 Mangelsen, Born of the North Wind. Mangelsen has won awards for making fine art photographs that also illuminate contemporary conservation issues. Born of the North Wind that shows a polar bear and Arctic fox on sea ice in the Far North is a reminder of how iconic creatures, with global warming, will literally be seeing the world they know vanish beneath their feet. When Virtual Reality Is No Match For A True Life In The Wild The amazing “all natural” photographs of Thomas D. Mangelsen Todd Wilkinson In this age of superior environmental awareness, when mass media and virtual reality are ostensibly supposed to make us smarter in our knowledge of the natural world, consider this paradox: One of the most famous and widely-circulated wildlife photographs ever made is an image that most members of the Millennial generation probably assume is a product of digital manipulation. The truth behind Thomas D. Mangelsen’s iconic Catch of the Day is exactly the opposite and that’s precisely what gives it extraordinary cachet. Mangelsen’s photograph capturing the exact moment that a spawning sockeye salmon in Alaska leaps upstream into the awaiting jaws of a large hungry brown bear, is “all wild.” The engaging masterpiece is not the result of keyboard legerdemain but painstaking old-school tradition. Here a noted American photographer methodically put himself in the right place at the right time—an exponent of Mangelsen’s life-long immersion in untamed and sometimes hostile environments. Mangelsen, Catch of the Day. Mangelsen's portrayal of a spawning sockeye salmon leaping in the mouth of a wild Alaskan brown bear, is one of the most famous wildlife photographs of the modern age. -
School Board Approves Separate 2021-22 Calendars
| PAGE LABEL EVEN | T Vol. 117HE No. 13 JOURNALTuesday, January 19, 2021 $100 ‘FLUSH IT’ T J Tigers look to ‘A GLIMMER OF HOPE’: Famous grizzly, cubs draw fans on trip to den. B1 bounce back after TRANSITION TIME NEARING: Biden, Harris take break to mark MLK day. D1 big loss. C1 OCONEE SCHOOLS School board approves separate 2021-22 calendars students will report on Steve Hanvey told the even though the e-Learn- statute,” Hanvey said. “So Aug. 11 and complete the board he ing program implemented we couldn’t just take them Elementary students will school year on May 24 wanted to go by the district this year out, even though we don’t according to the calendar, ahead and get allows students to receive plan to use them. Hopeful- while the first day for the calendars virtual instruction during ly, nothing would cause us start five days after others elementary students will approved “so inclement weather. to do that.” be Aug. 16 and the final our folks will “We got a message from Hanvey said the state BY GREG OLIVER mously approved separate day May 27. All in-service have plenty Dr. (Lee) D’Andrea, who’s only allowed middle and THE JOURNAL 2021-22 school calendars days and holiday breaks of time to over the e-Learning co- high schools to start three — one for elementary are identical between the Hanvey prepare for hort, and were told we had days earlier but added WALHALLA — The schools and the other for two calendars. it.” Three to continue to include the that will allow those stu- Oconee County School middle and high schools. -
A Death of Ethics: Is Hunting Destroying Itself?
1/27/2020 A Death Of Ethics: Is Hunting Destroying Itself? FRONT PAGE ALL STORIES ABOUT SUPPORT US CONTACT B AC K TO S TO R I E S Hunting, Wildlife D E C E M B E R 1 2 , 2 0 1 8 A Death Of Ethics: Is Hunting Destroying Itself? F R O M K I L L I N G B A B O O N FA M I L I E S T O S TA G I N G P R E D AT O R - K I L L I N G C O N T E S T S , H U N T E R S S TA N D A C C U S E D O F V I O L AT I N G T H E N O RT H A M E R I C A N M O D E L O F W I L D L I F E C O N S E R VAT I O N . N O W T H E Y ’ R E B E I N G C A L L E D O U T BY T H E I R O W N by Todd Wilkinson Coyote taken in a winter predator hunt in Wyoming. Photo credit: #chasin_fur Instagram Right now, as you read these words, it is perfectly legal in the state of Wyoming for a person to climb on the back of a snowmobile and chase down wild wolves, pursuing them until they drop from physical exhaustion. -
Public Notices Them
Page 8 Friday, January 15, 2021 Page 8 The Ranger Friday, January 15, 2021 Sudoku is a number-placing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid with several given numbers. The object is to place the numbers Continued from page 3 SUDOKU 1 to 9 in the empty squares so that each row, each column RHS and each 3x3 box contains the same number only once. Against Cody, coach Beau Rock Springs and Casper Natrona. Sheets sends his Wolverines out to Attendance restrictions remain face a struggling team that has in place at Wolverine Gym, with notched just one victory this sea - spectators limited to 100 per team. son, a 55-41 win over 3-A Lovell Masking is required to limit the last week. spread of coronavirus, and distanc - Like Riverton, Cody has lost a ing rules are in place for fans who close game to the Powell Panthers, aren’t in the same household. and they have been routed by two Admission to Saturday’s games out-of-state foes, plus Sheridan is free. and Worland. After Saturday, the Wolverines The Class 4-A Northwest quad - don’t play another home game rant comprises Riverton, Cody, until Feb. 12. Grizzly bear 399 and her four cubs crossed the road in southern Jackson Hole in mid-November as a woman stopped traffic for Public Notices them. The 24-year-old bear and her cubs have spent consider - able time far from the their usual northern range in and around PUBLIC NOTICE Grand Teton National Park. Ryan Dorgan, Jackson Hole News&Guide The Town of Shoshoni is requesting qualifications and a sealed fee estimate for a 385 Help Wanted 385 Help Wanted preliminary engineering report (PER) pursuant to seeking funding from USDA Rural De- velopment for the extension of a sanitary sewer system west of Shoshoni.