Posted by Louisa Willcox in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Right now, the NRDC Montana staff (Janet, Matt, and me) is driving back to Livingston from Missoula, after the federal court hearing on our wolf injunction wrapped up in front of Judge Molloy today. Matt's driving, so Janet is trying not to look out the...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
In a picture of last weekend's anti-wolf rally in Kalispell, the newspaper showed a guy in hunter orange holding up a placard that said: "Think about the children". Beside him stood a girl, about seven years old, in an orange...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
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
During Thanksgiving week, it's appropriate to give thanks to important congressional champions for wolves: Nick Joe Rahall (D-WV), George Miller (D-CA), Jim Saxton (R-NJ), and Norm Dicks (D-WA). As they did last year, last week these congressmen once again weighed...continued→
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...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→
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...continued→
