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bearpaw:
Gray Wolf Hunter Area 2 Closes
By Ron Richter on Thu 12/06/2012 Sheridan Media
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department issued a media release stating that hunters should be alerted that Gray Wolf Hunt Area 2, the Sunlight Management Unit northwest of Cody, closed December 6th at 9:10 a.m. The area closed because the mortality quota of eight wolves was reached.
more: http://www.sheridanmedia.com/news/gray-wolf-hunter-area-2-closes61260
bearpaw:
Oregon wolf OR-7 moves to lower ground in Northern California search for mate
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS December 07, 2012
PORTLAND, Oregon — The Oregon-born wolf looking for a mate in the wilds of Northern California has moved to lower ground as winter approaches.
California Department of Fish and Game program manager Karen Kovacs told The Oregonian (http://bit.ly/XA8mPt) that winter storms lashing the high country south of Lassen Peak have forced deer to lower elevations, and the wolf known as OR-7 has followed.
His satellite-tracking collar has shown him in oak-chaparral woodlands east of Red Bluff, California Kovacs said this is his first foray into that kind of habitat.
The wolf gained celebrity after leaving its home ground in northeastern Oregon more than a year ago and journeying hundreds of miles across eastern Oregon, down the Cascade Range to Northern California in search of a mate. Shortly after he left, the state put a death sentence on two members of his pack for killing cattle, but that has been held up by a lawsuit brought by conservation groups.
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bearpaw:
Court strikes down lawsuit challenging trapping in wolf country
December 4, 2012 posted at Wolf Crossing
ALBUQUERQUE – A U.S. District Court on Monday dismissed a lawsuit alleging the director of the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish and the chairman of the State Game Commission violated the federal Endangered Species Act by allowing trapping in the recovery area of the Mexican gray wolf.
U.S. Magistrate Lorenzo Garcia ruled that the environmental activist organization WildEarth Guardians failed to present facts showing the defendants’ actions directly or indirectly caused trappings or taking of wolves. The lawsuit was dismissed with prejudice, meaning it cannot be refiled.
Department Director Jim Lane, who was named in the lawsuit with State Game Commission Chairman Jim McClintic, hailed the decision as a sportsmen’s victory for “real conservationists,” state authority over wildlife management, and the integrity of the Endangered Species Act.
“We fought aggressively to defeat this frivolous lawsuit,” Lane said. “We are happy with the outcome. It’s unfortunate we had to spend hunters’, anglers’ and trappers’ dollars to win it rather than leveraging those same dollars toward on-the-ground conservation of New Mexico’s wildlife.”
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http://wolfcrossing.org/?p=663
bearpaw:
Too Many Predators... Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks... And Radical Environmental/Political Agendas Destroy Montana's Wildlife Resources
December 7, 2012 by Toby Bridges - Lobo Watch
Big game hunters in the western one-third of Montana just finished what may have been the absolute worst hunting season of their lives. During the late 1950s and 1960s, some of the better hunting districts in the Bitterroot, Sapphire, Garnet, Cabinet, Mission, Absaroka, Pioneer, Madison and other mountain ranges up and down the Rocky Mountains of Western Montana commonly saw hunter success rates of 30- to 50-percent. Often the percentage of elk, deer, moose and other big game hunters taking home game for the table even exceeded those success rates. Well, things have certainly changed, and not for the better. Depending on the specific geographical area, 2012 hunter success rates were more like 6- to 10-percent.
Why such a nose dive in the wild game harvest? That's the easy question to answer - there's no game to be hunted! The difficult question to answer is, why did Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks allow big game populations to crash by as much as 80-percent - without taking the necessary actions to stop the loss?
It's not because the agency lacks the professional wildlife managers and biologists to tackle and reverse such a downward trend in game numbers. The problem lies with a drastic change in the political agendas of those who direct, steer and literally dictate the direction that wildlife management now takes in this state. Unfortunately, it does not favor the sportsmen who have financially supported FWP since it was founded way back in 1901, originally as the Montana Fish and Game Department.
This wildlife agency is directly controlled by the Governor's office. Limited to two terms in office, current Governor Brian Schweitzer vacates that office next month, to be replaced by fellow Democrat Steve Bullock - who is currently serving as Montana's Attorney General. While an ever growing number of this state's sportsmen are proud to see Schweitzer leave office, they also now fear that they can expect the same agenda driven leadership from Bullock.
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http://www.lobowatch.com/adminclient/WolfPolitics8/go
bearpaw:
Groups file third lawsuit over federal government's delisting of Wyoming wolves
By BEN NEARY - Associated Press December 07, 2012
CHEYENNE, Wyoming — Environmental groups on Friday filed a third federal lawsuit challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's recent move to end federal protections for wolves in Wyoming.
The Humane Society of the United States and the Fund for Animals filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. The groups say Wyoming's management plan classifying wolves as predators that can be shot on sight in most of the state is inadequate. They want the court to reinstate federal protections.
Two other similar lawsuits filed by environmental groups are pending, one in the same federal court in Washington and another in federal court in Denver.
Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead has said state management is adequate to maintain set minimum wolf populations. He wants all three lawsuits moved to Wyoming.
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