Posted by Louisa Willcox in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Last Saturday, I was the guest story teller at the Yaak wilderness festival, an eclectic annual gathering of woodsworkers, back-to-the-landers, local artists, writers, musicians, and conservationists committed to protecting an incredible stretch of wild country that is the Cabinet Yaak...
Posted by Louisa Willcox in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
The phone rang off the hook last night. Friends, colleagues, family, my old boss – calls of congratulations, celebration for wolves and the magnificent ecosystems they represent. Long live wolves, long live the Wild, long live the Honorable Judge Molloy!It...
Posted by Louisa Willcox in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
We already knew that this has been a gruesome year for the buffalo of Yellowstone National Park. But a recent flight by park service personnel has given us a new understanding of just how terrible the toll has been on...
Posted by Louisa Willcox in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
April 15th, blizzarding in Yellowstone. It was almost a whiteout as I drove south along the Yellowstone River toward the Park, until I got to Yankee Jim Canyon when the sky lifted a little. But wind continued to roar and...
Posted by Louisa Willcox in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
His was a very American story. He was a survivor who never let a handicap curb his wanderlust. At his popularity’s peak, an army of photographers and fans followed his every move. But it all came to a tragic end...
Posted by Louisa Willcox in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
In announcing the decision to remove endangered species protections from wolves in the Northern Rockies last week, Deputy Interior Secretary Lynn Scarlett emphasized the change in public attitudes toward wolves over the last hundred years. Indeed, attitudes have changed—and far...
Posted by Louisa Willcox in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
He could have been the lead singer in a blues band, the lone gray wolf. His voice was wild, tremulous and it filled the valley with the sound of longing. His message was unmistakable: “I want a woman”. His...
Posted by Louisa Willcox in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Federal wolf recovery coordinator Ed Bangs knows how to disarm an audience. Last Thursday, on a conference call with members of the media announcing the Bush administration’s new rule for managing Northern Rockies wolves, Bangs started out with: “I’ve had...
Posted by Louisa Willcox in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
The wolves were barely visible, with so much snow falling heavy and fast. Across Yellowstone’s Lamar Valley, a black wolf was tussling with a pale gray one, on its back, feet in the air. In a flash, the gray rolled...
