Posted by Louisa Willcox in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
This article originally appeared as a guest editorial in the Jackson Hole News and Guide on Ocotober 28, 2009. It's impossible to drive over Togwotee Pass or hike in the wilds of the Gros Ventres or Absarokas these days without...continued→
Posted by Louisa Willcox in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
It's official: last week, the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) approved a grant of $150,000 for a comprehensive assessment of beetle damage of whitebark pine in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE), using global positioning system technology. This is important because the...continued→
Posted by Louisa Willcox in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
The following opinion was published today in the Billings Gazette. It's not fire season yet, but there's enough smoke swirling around the wolf debate to obscure the real issues. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has claimed that the...continued→
Posted by Louisa Willcox in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Oh to do a headstand outside on Thanksgiving, at 4300 feet in Montana! My bare feet reach skyward towards the immense blue. The crown of my head roots on thin soil covering glacial till, dumped here 10,000 years ago by...continued→
Posted by Louisa Willcox in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Today we received a plan by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reopening the public comment period on the 2007 proposal to remove endangered species protections from Northern Rockies wolves. This plan fails to make any substantive changes, despite a recent...continued→
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...continued→
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...continued→
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...continued→
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...continued→
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...continued→
