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 beetle attack of whitebark pine I saw near Yellowstone National Park in Tom Miner Basin last week was worse than it was when I was here a year ago. Even just two years ago, you would find a...continued→
Posted by Louisa Willcox in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
On Monday, June 1st, the Billings Gazette published a piece I wrote on the problems of prematurely removing endangered species protections from Northern Rockies gray wolves. I shouldn't have been surprised at the number of comments (28 total) posted in...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
The film Return to the Wild: A Modern Tale of Wolf and Man offers a refreshing and candid view of wolves and the debate that swirls around their restoration in the Northern Rockies. Irish filmmaker Martin O'Brien tracks the stunning...continued→
Posted by Louisa Willcox in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Yesterday I had the nearest miss with hypothermia I've had in years of mountaineering and outdoor adventuring. A photo crew from Colorado came to shoot me for the Patagonia summer catalog, which will feature the work of several conservation leaders...continued→
Posted by Louisa Willcox in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
I heard a wolf howl last evening, at dusk, right near our house. Three long, outrageous, unmistakable howls, rolling down from the snow-covered ridge above -- a lone voice that seemed to emanate from a stand of limber pine and...continued→
Posted by Louisa Willcox in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
As I mail off my last Christmas gifts this week, I'm also waiting anxiously for a last lump of coal from the Bush administration: the decision to delist the Northern Rockies wolf. In a rush to remove endangered species protections...continued→
Posted by Louisa Willcox in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
A shortened version of this opinion piece was published in the Billings Gazette on November 30th, 2008 This year has been a blood bath for Yellowstone grizzly bears. A total of 49 grizzlies are known to have died, breaching the...continued→
