Friday, May 24, 2013
Click here for RSS feedWASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Wednesday nominated outdoor business executive Sally Jewell to lead the Interior Department. Obama said Jewell, president and chief executive at REI, has earned national recognition for her support of outdoor recreation and habitat conservation. He ...
Wednesday, February 06, 2013 6:47 AM
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- The Bureau of Land Management is restricting grazing on allotments in Owyhee County after a federal judge's ruling in a lawsuit over sage grouse habitat. The Idaho Statesman reports (http://bit.ly/YClKDN ) the ruling in the case between environmental group Western Watershed ...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 10:58 PM
MCCALL, Idaho (AP) -- State fish biologists are blaming a water supply problem at the fish hatchery in McCall for the death of an estimated 60,000 Chinook salmon fry. Idaho Department of Fish and Game officials say supply valves that control water delivery to two of the hatchery's 11 incubator ...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 7:08 AM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- A Montana judge issued an injunction Friday allowing wolf trapping and hunting to continue outside Yellowstone National Park, as lawmakers in Helena advanced a measure to loosen restrictions on killing wolves statewide. Combined, the two actions pave the way for a ...
Friday, January 18, 2013 4:56 PM
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Idaho wildlife officials are considering hiring private trappers to kill wolves roaming in important elk zones in the state. Idaho Department of Fish and Game bureau manager Jeff Gould says several trappers have built up some pretty good skills for trapping wolves. The ...
Tuesday, January 15, 2013 7:41 AM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Montana officials were due in state court Monday to ask a judge to reinstate a temporary ban against the hunting and trapping of gray wolves near Yellowstone National Park. At issue are two areas north of Yellowstone near the town of Gardiner totaling about 60 squa ...
Monday, January 14, 2013 11:29 AM
SKAMOKAWA, Wash. (AP) -- When Marty Kuller was growing up in Seward, Alaska, commercial fishermen walked tall, and little boys like Kuller looked up to them. "Growing up as a young man, the commercial fishermen were the pillars of the community. As a young man, that was my dream. You ...
Sunday, January 13, 2013 4:48 PM
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) -- Idaho National Laboratory officials say two wolves have been spotted on the 890-square-mile nuclear facility that is off limits to hunters. INL spokeswoman Carisa Shultz tells the Post Register (http://bit.ly/V9j65r) that workers spotted the wolves Saturday outside th ...
Tuesday, January 08, 2013 8:01 AM
BILLINGS, Mont (AP) -- Montana's decision to let migrating bison roam freely across 70,000 acres outside Yellowstone National Park was upheld by a court ruling Monday that dismissed a pair of lawsuits challenging the policy. District Judge E. Wayne Phillips issued a 78-page ruling in whic ...
Monday, January 07, 2013 4:11 PM
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- The federal agency responsible for protecting animal and plant health has agreed to improve how it responds to public-records requests after a Montana wildlife advocacy group claimed the agency regularly put off responses to Freedom of Information Act queries. The U. ...
Wednesday, January 02, 2013 2:17 PM
BEND, Ore. (AP) -- The mountain goat population appears to be growing on Central Oregon's Mount Jefferson, two years after Oregon and the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs returned the high-climbing animals to the peak. A second release this summer helped increase the number of Rocky Mountain ...
Wednesday, December 26, 2012 7:52 AM
YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) -- The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Indian Reservation have opened a hunting season for gray wolves on their reservation that sprawls across 1.4 million acres in northeast Washington, saying wolves have reduced the number of deer and elk that tribal members hunt for food. ...
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 4:07 PM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Montana wildlife commissioners approved the final piece of a $7.8 million ranch purchase along the Milk River near the Canadian border on Monday, despite objections from neighboring landowners and some lawmakers. On a 4-to-1 vote, Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commissio ...
Monday, December 10, 2012 1:46 PM
MONTPELLIER, Idaho (AP) -- Federal wildlife officials are on the hunt for ranchers and farmers willing to put thousands of acres of land into conservation easements in Idaho's southeast corner. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is looking to buy up development rights in the Bear River watershe ...
Monday, December 10, 2012 7:55 AM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- The shooting of collared gray wolves from Yellowstone National Park is prompting Montana wildlife commissioners to consider new restrictions against killing the predators in areas near the park. Wolf trapping in Montana kicks off Dec. 15. It's the state's first suc ...
Monday, December 10, 2012 7:45 AM
JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) -- Wyoming residents are divided about the reintroduction of wolves to the state but strongly support wolf hunting, a poll shows. About 49 percent of residents agree with the reintroduction of wolves, while 47 percent think it was a bad idea, the survey found. Wolves were hun ...
Wednesday, November 21, 2012 3:05 PM
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) -- Idaho officials say hunters have killed 96 wolves so far in the 2012-2013 hunting season. Idaho Fish and Game officials tell the Coeur d'Alene Press (http://bit.ly/Wfbhb0) that through Thursday 16 wolves have been killed in Idaho's Panhandle wolf zones since t ...
Monday, November 19, 2012 7:39 AM
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- The state Fish and Wildlife Department spent nearly $77,000 to kill seven wolves in a pack that had been preying on cattle in Stevens County in northeast Washington. Only one wolf was killed in a 39-day ground hunt that cost nearly $55,000. The other six wolves were kille ...
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 7:02 AM
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) -- U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is apologizing for threatening to punch a Colorado reporter who asked him about problems with the government's wild horse program at a campaign event. Salazar on Wednesday called Dave Philipps, a reporter with The Gazette of Colo ...
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 1:43 PM
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service never should have accepted a wolf-management plan that allows the state of Wyoming to classify the animals as predators that may be shot on sight, environmental groups said in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday in Washington, D.C. A c ...
Tuesday, November 13, 2012 1:52 PM
MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) -- Beware of 56-year-old Russian women with axes. A lone wolf attacked Aishat Maksudova outside her sister's home in Russia's province of Dagestan in the North Caucasus Mountains. The animal bit the farmer on her arm and her leg and she fell to the ground, crying o ...
Tuesday, November 13, 2012 7:44 AM
GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) -- State agencies are proposing to buy a combined 4,500 acres of ranchland near the U.S.-Canada border. The Great Falls Tribune (http://gftrib.com/W18ire ) reports Fish, Wildlife and Parks would buy 2,992 acres 42 miles northwest of Havre for $4.7 million. FWP says ...
Tuesday, November 13, 2012 7:30 AM
CANTON, Kan. (AP) -- The steady demand for buffalo meat could mean good prices at the upcoming annual auction of surplus buffalo from a herd in southwest Kansas, organizers say. The buffalo auction is planned for Wednesday at the Maxwell Wildlife Refuge in Canton, according to the Kansas Depart ...
Sunday, November 11, 2012 11:48 AM
BILLINGS, Mont (AP) -- A decision to allow migrating bison to roam freely across 70,000 acres outside Yellowstone National Park goes before a Montana judge Monday, as local officials and ranchers press for restrictions on the animals' movements. State officials opened the Gardiner Basin j ...
Monday, November 05, 2012 7:29 AM
ELGIN, Ore. (AP) -- A young gray wolf has been captured in an area of northeastern Oregon's Blue Mountains where wolves weren't known to be living. Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife spokeswoman Michelle Dennehy says it wasn't immediately known if the 85-pound yearling male wolf belongs to ...
Saturday, November 03, 2012 11:19 AM
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The federal agency charged with managing wild horses and burros that roam freely across 11 Western states should consider sterilizing some mares to control booming mustang populations and protect rangelands, a citizen advisory panel recommended Tuesday. The Bureau o ...
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