Thursday, September 02, 2010
Click here for RSS feedPIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Officials from 2 federal agencies held a meeting in Fort Pierre on Wednesday to seek public comment on President Barack Obama's initiative aimed at finding ways to reconnect people to the outdoors. Acting U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Rowan Gould and U.S. Agric ...
Wednesday, September 01, 2010 11:09 AM
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- A helicopter chartered by the Department of Fish and Game plunged into a travel trailer and crashed Tuesday on a downtown street in the small town of Kamiah, killing two biologists and the pilot, authorities said. The Fish and Game biologists were identified as Larry ...
Thursday, September 02, 2010 2:48 PM
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Ranching groups and two southern New Mexico counties have sued over a program that is reintroducing endangered Mexican gray wolves into the wild in New Mexico and Arizona, claiming its managers have made substantial changes that require a new environmental impact stat ...
Thursday, August 26, 2010 12:09 PM
MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) -- State wildlife officials say pneumonia has been confirmed in a herd of about 300 bighorn sheep west of Anaconda. Fish, Wildlife and Parks biologist Ray Vinkey collected samples from four members of the Lost Creek herd that were shot on Aug. 20 because they exhibited s ...
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 2:28 PM
LEWISTOWN, Mont. (AP) -- Rural residents of eastern Montana say they are digging in for a protracted fight against the possible designation of another national monument in the region. At a Friday forum hosted by Republican Rep. Denny Rehberg, several ranchers said a tentative monument pro ...
Sunday, August 22, 2010 5:29 PM
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A federal appeals court has upheld protections for wild steelhead trout in California rivers, rejecting a challenge by Central Valley farmers to the fish's endangered status. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that federal fisheries regulators acted with ...
Sunday, August 22, 2010 5:29 PM
Wildlife managers seek hunting season for relisted wolves IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) -- The Idaho Fish and Game Commission vowed to pursue all legal options to restore the state's authority over wolf management after a federal judge's Aug. 5 ruling restored endangered species protections. The com ...
Saturday, August 21, 2010 9:09 AM
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- A federal appeals court Tuesday decided that mud washing off logging roads is pollution and ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to write regulations to reduce the amount that reaches salmon streams. A conservation group that filed the lawsuit said if the ...
Thursday, August 19, 2010 3:49 PM
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- A wildlife photographer said Monday she has hand-delivered more than 3,000 letters to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management opposing plans to round up wild horses in southwest Wyoming. The BLM wants to gather 1,951 wild horses in October. The figure would amount to 80 ...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 5:29 PM
ENTERPRISE, Ore. (AP) -- Jason Cunningham is a true Wallowa County cowboy. This summer he is putting skills he's honed throughout his life to help monitor and track wolves on public lands. For the past four weeks he's camped out with cows grazing in wolf territory. Cunningham is the area' ...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 12:29 PM
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- The state Land Board led by Gov. Brian Schweitzer is giving its approval to a Fish, Wildlife and Parks plan to buy a 28,000-acre ranch near Deer Lodge for hunting, fishing and recreation. The Land Board unanimously endorsed the idea Monday. The $16.5 million to buy ...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 11:08 AM
ENTERPRISE, Ore. (AP) -- One of the gray wolves that have returned to Oregon has become the first in its pack to wear a radio collar. Biologist said the 2-year-old male wolf was the first in the Wenaha pack to be captured and collared. The tracking device will provide a more accurate popu ...
Friday, August 13, 2010 2:58 PM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Wildlife officials in the Northern Rockies say they are considering hunting wolves in the name of research. Environmentalists have derided the proposal, comparing it to Japanese whale hunts carried out under the guise of scientific research. An Aug. 5 co ...
Friday, August 13, 2010 2:58 PM
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) -- A Nevada sheep rancher who once accused wildlife biologists of "political assassination" for killing a bighorn sheep that mingled with his flock has been named to the Nevada Wildlife Commission. Hank Vogler was appointed to the nine member board by Gov. Ji ...
Friday, August 13, 2010 3:58 PM
GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) -- Grizzly bears have been spotted near Brady about 50 miles north of Great Falls -- an area known more for its wide open wheat fields than for the roaming bruins. Gus Winterrowd said he "wasted the whole morning" watching a pair of young grizzlies in a field on hi ...
Thursday, August 12, 2010 7:38 AM
KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) -- State wildlife officials say eight bighorn sheep rams were killed when lightning struck a Ponderosa pine tree on Wild Horse Island in Flathead Lake. Fish, Wildlife and Parks Warden Capt. Lee Anderson says the rams died within the last week to 10 days. Six of the ...
Thursday, August 12, 2010 10:38 AM
Farmers interested in signing up for the Conservation Reserve Program will want to call into their county Farm Service Agency office to schedule appointments, FSA officials said. The general sign-up for the voluntary program will run through Aug. 27. Under CRP, participants enter into long ...
Saturday, August 07, 2010 10:18 AM
SPOKANE, Wash. -- A proposed initiative is bringing ranchers and conservationists together for the benefit of forestland in northeast Washington. The nonprofit organization Conservation Northwest announced July 28 a new Columbia Highlands Initiative, which proponents say balances recreational ...
Saturday, August 07, 2010 12:18 AM
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- The commission that oversees the Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks agrees it would be a good idea to buy a 28,000-acre ranch near Deer Lodge for hunting, fishing and recreation. The panel unanimously approved the idea Thursday, saying it presents a unique opport ...
Saturday, August 07, 2010 3:38 PM
BAKER CITY, Ore. (AP) -- Baker County's mountain goat population is so bountiful these days that we can afford to share with Oregon's biggest mountain range. A group of 45 goats that were born and reared in the Elkhorn Mountains west of Baker City today ramble across the volcanic slope ...
Saturday, August 07, 2010 1:18 PM
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar struck a conciliatory tone Tuesday in Utah, saying it was possible to resolve decades of conflict over development and preservation on the two-thirds of the state's land that is owned by the federal government. Much of it is spectacular can ...
Thursday, August 05, 2010 3:58 PM
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Tuesday that it will review the status of the troubled Mexican gray wolf to determine if it should be listed as an endangered species separate from other North American gray wolves. Conservation groups filed two petitions l ...
Thursday, August 05, 2010 7:39 AM
Livestock groups and lawmakers are assailing a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposal to halve the level of dust allowed at farms and other businesses. Issued this month, the EPA's Second Draft Policy Assessment for Particulate Matter could result in allowable coarse PM levels as low ...
Saturday, August 28, 2010 9:28 AM
California's workplace-safety board is expected to decide in mid-August on a permanent version of its workplace rules for managing heat stress. With a comment period wrapped up in June, the Department of Occupational Safety and Health is preparing a final version of the heat-stress rule that ...
Saturday, August 28, 2010 9:28 AM
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- A federal judge Wednesday ordered the U.S. Forest Service to take a tougher look at the possibility that routinely dropping toxic fire retardant on wildfires from airplanes will kill endangered fish and plants. U.S. District Judge Donald W. Molloy in Missoula ...
Friday, July 30, 2010 1:38 PM
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- The Payette National Forest aims to protect wild bighorn sheep by reducing rangeland suited for domestic sheep and goat grazing by 70 percent by 2013. This plan, in the works for years, protects 94 percent of bighorn sheep summer habitat. Scientists and forest offic ...
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