Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Olivia Judson has a very nice post up at the New York Times today about the role of predators in ecosystems. She points out all the ways that predators effect the behavior of a host of different animals--from elk...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Like Matt, I was disappointed to find out yesterday that Federal District Judge Donald Molloy will let wolf hunts in Idaho and Montana continue. But I think there’s more good news in the decision than bad. Don’t get me...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Those of you following NRDC’s battle to prevent the termination of federal protections for the Northern Rocky Mountains population of gray wolves may have recently read about the Idaho Fish and Game Commission, which just set a quota for wolf...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
Ralph Maughan links to a very important article by the AP's Matthew Brown in today’s Casper-Star Tribune on the connection between increasing human-bear conflicts (guess what, the bear loses) and the decline of high alpine whitebark pine trees. As...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy
Predictably, the Fish and Wildlife Service’s recent decision to strip wolves of Endangered Species Act protections in Montana and Idaho—but to leave those protections in place in Wyoming—not only angered us, but plenty of folks in Wyoming as well; and...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy
As expected, today the Secretary of the Interior officially made available the final rule removing the Northern Rocky Mountain population of gray wolves from the list of federally endangered species in Montana and Idaho. The rule will take effect...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy
In some extremely disappointing news, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced last Friday his intention to "affirm" the Bush administration's decision to remove Endangered Species Act protections for wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains and Upper Midwest. As...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
Bettina Boxall has a great post in LA Times's Greenspace about a new study in the journal Science that finds the background mortality rate from unmanaged old forests in the United States has doubled in the last thirty years. The...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Yesterday, just after he became President, Barack Obama ordered all federal agencies to withdraw any regulations proposed by the Bush Administration that had not yet been officially published or gone into effect. President Obama's order is similar to one issued...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
Today NRDC filed a formal petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to officially classify whitebark pine, a tree found near the tops of mountains throughout western North America, as an endangered species. It’s hard to overstate the importance...continued→
