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
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
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→
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
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
My husband is nervous, and he shows it by being quiet. And hardly eating anything. Right now Doug has the weight of the northern Rockies wolves on his shoulders. Tomorrow a federal court judge may decide the fate of Yellowstone...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→
