Mouth Disease Infiltrating Yellowstone Bighorns
Scabbed lips and exposed teeth are taking away from the beauty of some of Yellowstone’s most majestic residents. Five bighorn sheep in the park have been sporting the frightening appearance after an outbreak of sore mouth disease in the region. Officials with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks and the National Park Service have stated that […]
Mining Company and Conservation Groups Partner to Protect Habitat
A crucial migration route for Yellowstone elk and the waters of a pair of Yellowstone River tributaries have been placed under protection celebrated by a signing ceremony on Thursday. Members from Kinross Gold, a Toronto-based mining company and officials from both the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and Trout Unlimited made the protections official yesterday in […]
Montana Fish & Wildlife Sets Sights on 5,000+ Acre Wildlife Management Area
Located north of Yellowstone National Park, Montana officials are considering the acquisition of over 5,000 acres in an area state biologists and officials believe to be a pertinent migration corridor out of the park. According to the commission, the land has been on the market for some time and its importance to the winter activities […]
Wolves Kill Record Number of Livestock in Wyoming
A report released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service revealed record-breaking statistics regarding livestock predation in Wyoming from the state’s population of gray wolves. Under state management, Wyoming officials were forced to also kill a record number of wolves in response to the growing number of livestock incidents reported in the state. According to […]
A Conservation Milestone: Yellowstone Grizzlies Removed from Endangered Species List
Despite being clouded in controversy, the decision to lift the federal protection of grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is a victory in sound wildlife conservation. After living under the protective umbrella of the Endangered Species Act for over 40 years, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke called the recovery “one of America’s great […]
Study Points to Elk as More Significant Brucellosis Transmission Risk than Bison
Present in both bison and elk, Brucellosis is an infection that causes infected animals to abort their calves. While the infection has historically affected both species, it is the bison where much of the efforts to contain brucellosis were concentrated. As large grazing animals who often encounter livestock, ranchers have grown abundantly concerned that the […]
Study Indicates Wolves Do Not Necessarily ‘Prey Switch’ to Stabilize Prey Populations
Dating back to the late 1960’s, the term ‘prey switching’ was initially hypothesized in general ecology to describe the way generalist predatory animals switch between prey as the prey species relative abundances change. What this means is that predators, such as wolves, were thought to have switched their preference of prey based on the abundance […]
$10K in Rewards for Info on Illegal Killing of Rare White Yellowstone Wolf
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Wyoming Shed Hunter Attacked by Surprised Grizzly
According to the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, a shed hunter perusing for shed antlers north of Cody was bitten on his arm and leg after stumbling upon a sleeping grizzly bear. Large carnivore conflict coordinator Brian DeBolt told the Casper Tribune that despite the bites, the man luckily did not sustain any puncture wounds […]
Grizzlies Emerging as First Sign of the Spring Season
With spring officially underway, what better way to mark the new season than with the emergence of some of our favorite large mammals? Just the same as songbirds begin to return to North America from their wintering grounds in the tropics of South and Central America, the grizzly bear is beginning to show up […]