Wildlife management is failing the animals and the people of NM. Is Warming Bringing a Wave of New Diseases to Arctic Wildlife? During the last week of September, Inuit residents in the community of Arviat on the northwest coast of Hudson Bay were surprised to see a mysterious whale following a small boat heading back to the village.
The whale was at least twice the size of the 15- to 20-foot-long beluga whales that are traditionally seen in this part of the world. Based on the photos taken, scientists concluded that the whale was a humpback, the first ever seen in that part of Hudson Bay, and one of a handful that have recently been spotted in the North American Arctic. Humpbacks are not the only marine mammals that have been expanding their range northward. Most notably, as sea ice melts, ice-avoiding killer whales have been moving deeper into the Arctic Ocean, hunting and killing both narwhal and beluga whales. Other whale species — including minke, bottlenose, fin, and sperm whales — are also making their way north as the Arctic heats up. Most Americans support the Endangered Species Act — but that might not matter. The U.S. lost a variety of native wildlife in the 20th century, including birds such as (clockwise from top left) Carolina parakeets, dusky seaside sparrows and passenger pigeons.
(Photo: James St. John/Flickr, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Seabamirum/Flickr) Rollingstone. This week, the U.S. Department of Interior released a plan to essentially gut the Endangered Species Act, one of the most popular and powerful environmental laws on the books. Should Some Species Be Allowed to Die Out? One day last spring, Lisa Crampton stood at the base of a tall ohia tree, deep in the forested interior of Kauai. That morning, Crampton and five other field biologists had spent two hours hiking to a narrow clearing, where a hovering helicopter airdropped a large aluminum ladder. Although the distance from the clearing to the tree was comparatively short, it took the team most of the morning to maneuver the ladder across a stream, through the brush and up a steep slope.
During that time, it also started to rain. ‘People think the deer are lovely. Then they learn more about it’: the deer cull dilemma. When we arrive at the cottage, they are already there, watching us from high on the crags overlooking the water.
The five of us are still tasting the chill, stale air of the empty building and staking claims on stained mattresses when Julien spots a silhouette through the warped pane of the back window. “They’re up there now,” he says. “Let’s go.” A minute later we are scrambling up the hillface, gaining height fast. Out His Picture Window A Glimpse Of The Post-Holocene Waits. January 10, 2018—"Bison People" At The Front Door Steven Fuller observes: "Early in the winter some of the half dozen bull bison/buffalo that hang on in the meadows around the house come up right next to the house to take advantage of the summer sun dried graze that is accessible in the shallow snow shadow around the perimeter of the house, as seen through my living room windows.
" Buffalo have been at home in the sunlit meadows on which my house sits since the blooming of the Holocene Spring and the greening of the central Yellowstone Plateau that followed the melting of the most recent North American glaciation 11,000 years ago. I have had the pleasure of living in some degree of intimacy with buffalo these past 45 years and without exception I have found them to be most tolerant and agreeable neighbors.
I respect their bubble of space and read their body language which is the means by which they communicate with their own kind as well as with us alien species. The American poet John G. The War on Rotenone — Native Fish Coalition. The leading saboteur of native-fish recovery throughout the West is Wilderness Watch.
One might suppose that a group so named would advocate such icons of wilderness as Paiute cutthroat, Rio Grande cutthroat, westslope cutthroat, golden trout, Little Kern golden trout and threated Gila trout (a desert-adapted salmonid whose core native range is the Gila Wilderness of New Mexico). But Wilderness Watch strives to block their recovery, frequently with success. Human–Wildlife Interactions. Could Wolverines Be Greater Yellowstone's First Mammal To Wink Out?
Greater Yellowstone's Coming Plague. On a map, “Deer Hunt Area 17” is unlikely to ring any bells of geographic recognition, even for residents in hunting-crazed Wyoming.
Located northwest of Gillette in the Powder River Basin—a sweep of rolling, mostly treeless high plains embedded in the largest coal-producing region in America—Hunt Area 17 on Monday, December 19, 2016 became one of the latest in Wyoming to have a publicly-confirmed case of Chronic Wasting Disease. “If you see a deer, elk or moose that appears to be sick or not acting in a normal manner, please contact your local game warden, wildlife biologist or Game and Fish office immediately,” Scott Edberg, deputy chief of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s wildlife division, said in a press release.
Many more confirmations of CWD are expected to come soon in Wyoming. In fact, another arrived on September 25, 2017, with a mule deer buck testing positive in Dear Hunt Area 19. ConservationCorridor.org October Newsletter. Chronic Wasting Disease Looms As Deadly Threat To Country's Greatest Elk Herds. A bull elk on the National Elk Refuge in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Photo courtesy U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service To nature-adoring onlookers, the sea of elk gathered every winter on the National Elk Refuge in Jackson Hole, Wyoming appears to be an enchanting vision of wapiti nirvana. Across generations, countless people have taken refuge sleigh rides, watching thousands of pastured wild elk being fed dry hay and alfalfa pellets. Greater Yellowstone's Coming Plague. What Happens When Predators Disappear. Eliminating predators from an area may be seen as a good thing; you’ve gotten rid of the animal that has been killing off your livestock or even your neighbors.
Others often see the loss of these species with a somewhat sad, romantic eye; how awful to never again see such a creature. But the reality of the loss of predators is far worse, say ecologists reporting in Science, and “may be humankind’s most pervasive influence on nature,” they write. Part of that is because the worst extent of such a disappearance—extinction—is irreversible, unlike other environmental impacts, such as climate change. Can the Monarch Highway Help Save a Butterfly Under Siege? - Yale E360.
Interstate 35 lies at the heart of a vast circulatory system, one of the massive transportation arteries that enable Americans to move long distances quickly.
The highway also cuts through the heart of the eastern monarch’s central flyway, which produces the vast majority of brilliant orange and black butterflies that undertake one of the world’s most grueling insect migrations. En route from as far away as southern Canada to their wintering grounds in steep, fir-clad slopes northwest of Mexico City, monarchs must fly through numerous metropolitan areas strung along the 1,568-mile river of asphalt, including Minneapolis-St. Paul, Kansas City, and Dallas-Fort Worth. Hunting Big Game: Why People Kill Animals for Fun. Foxes Active in Late Winter. Illustration by Adelaide Tyrol The first time I saw the fox last February, I did a double take.
It was late morning when I glanced out the window on my way from one task to the next. Sportfishingmag. Cascadia Wildlands » Time to Get the Lead Out. Over the past few years I have had a number of conversations with hunters, scientists, veterinarians and wildlife rehabilitators about lead bullets, fragmentation and how fragments are entering the food chains of raptors and other scavengers (see here). These exchanges have been helpful in sorting out this complicated issue. Is there strong evidence this is happening? Yes. Can it be traced specifically to lead bullets? National Wildlife Health Center - Lead Poisoning. Mallard on right with characteristic drooping wing, a symptom of lead poisoning Photo by James Runningen Twenty-four years after nontoxic shot requirements were established for hunting waterfowl, attention has shifted to lead poisoning in other species. These include upland game birds, avian scavengers (such as vultures, hawks and eagles) and other waterbirds that are exposed to lead through the ingestion of spent lead shot, bullet fragments and fishing sinkers.
Lead is a metal with no known biologically beneficial role, and its use in gasoline, paint, pesticides and solder in food cans has nearly been eliminated. Although lead shot was banned for waterfowl hunting in 1991, its use in ammunition for upland hunting, shooting sports and in fishing tackle remains widespread. Dr. News from Staying Connected. The stories assembled for this newsletter capture so well SCI's multi-faceted approach to sustaining connectivity: in Quebec, new funding will help launch efforts to raise community awareness and influence land use planning; in Vermont, SCI partners are expanding a program to enhance stewardship of private forest lands; in Maine, collaboration among state agencies is helping to make roads safer for moose and people. Yes, the Endangered Species Act should be reformed. A gray wolf, which has federal protections from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as an endangered species.
Wolverine Day In The Beartooths: A Happy Old Man Finds High Fast Corn And Discovers Tracks Of The Legendary 'Glutton' - The Bullseye. A LITTLE OVER TEN YEARS AGO, AFTER RETIRING FROM THE FOREST SERVICE in Logan, Utah, my wife Catherine and I moved to Paradise Valley, Montana. Paradise Valley is so named for good reason, though whoever named it most likely didn’t do so in winter. This little-noticed court settlement will probably save millions of animals. Donkey Hill - Service Dog Project.
Connecting Landscapes: A Practitioner's Resource for Assessing and Planning for Habitat Connectivity // LandScope America. Here's How to Design a Wildlife Crossing That Wildlife Will Actually Use. Roll down your windows while cruising down the 101 through Agoura today, and you'll see a few one or two story buildings, brown rolling hills, and depending on the season, some green trees. Fur-Bearings. Bighorn. Could Mountain Lions Help Solve Connecticut’s Deer Problem? For humans, deer are actually the most dangerous wild mammal in North America. A Natural Cure for Lyme Disease.
Don’t Give Away Our Wildlife Refuges. Breaking news: Obama administration grounds aerial hunting, other inhumane predator-killing practices on refuges in Alaska. The new protective regulations announced today by USFWS will protect grizzly bears from some of the most wanton and misguided methods of killing them, as well as black bears, wolves, and coyotes on our public lands in Alaska . Photo by Alamy. Sharp Decline in Vermont Moose Herd Raises Questions About Hunting. Ice Age Death Trap Yields an Unexpected Carnivore. If you're lucky enough to hear a long, sonorous howl rolling through the Wyoming forests and grasslands, you're listening to the voice of a gray wolf.
Trophy Hunting Fees Do Little to Help Threatened Species, Report Says. Climate Change Is Drawing Alaska’s Moose Onto the Tundra. NRA Lays Groundwork to Shut Down Animal Rights Movement. Bison Management - Yellowstone National Park (U.S. National Park Service) BRUCELLOSIS AND YELLOWSTONE BISON IN MONTANA. Parks, Protected Areas, Cultural Sites. A Rocky Mountain Tragedy…Revisited. Regulations.gov. The Hunter Conservationist Paradox from the FWC Chairman. Learning to Let the Wild Be Wild in Yellowstone. Camp Creek Elk Feedground 2014: A Valley of Death.
Infographic: Hey, Wildlife Services — what did you kill? I Am Not A Trophy Sticker – The Echo Syndicate. Killing to Conserve. Critics see overkill at Wildlife Services - The New West - JHN&G Mobile. Picking up the dead left by wasting disease - The New West - JHN&G Mobile. The Need to Reform Wildlife Management. Quest to save Minnesota moose has breakthroughs, hard choices. Cougar Lessons in Coexistence Warning from the Birding Community to the Terrorists in Oregon: We're Watching You. The Myth of Hunting Conservation. Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Listing Two Lion Subspecies. Lions, trophy hunting and the US government - the 27 facts you need to know. Study Erases Misconceptions About Endangered Species Act, Raises Questions About Enforcement. » OUR WILDLIFE TRUST. All New England Could Fit on BLM Land in Nevada; BLM Owns 0 Acres in New England. Study: Chronic Wasting Disease kills 19% of deer herd annually. Cole: New York legislators should ban ‘bounty’ hunting contests.
What we owe Earth's other predators. Three Questions About the Ethics of Wildlife Management. Blood Lions threatens to bring down lion breeding industry. A Personal Exploration of the Ethics of Wildlife Photography in Yellowstone. Connecticut Wildlife Action Plan. The Eastern Wildway Essential 16. Rewilding the East: Exploring Eastern Wildways from the Everglades to the Boreal Forest · College of the Atlantic. Steve Hall: Be Grateful You’re Not A Moose - - The Adirondack Almanack.
How much is nature worth? More than you can imagine. Glogin?mobile=1&URI= Lodgetrailmedia.wordpress. Citizens United: The Cash Cow That's Killing Endangered Species Lion-killing dentist Walter Palmer just like others with too much wealth and not enough self-worth. Yes, Animals Think And Feel. Here’s How We Know. Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation. Short-tailed Weasel and Long-tailed Weasel. Smith Molde Wildlife Conservation Management Funding in the US Oct14 Rev F1.
House Bill to Fund Interior Department Would Strip Protections From Gray Wolves. Ecolarge 2013 200m question. America’s billionaires among welfare ranchers. Four ways Interior Secretary Jewell can salvage her legacy. Parks and Wreck: The Feds Need $11.5 Billion to Fix Our Public Lands. Top Predators May Be the Most Important Animals on Earth. How to Live Responsibly Alongside Our Wild Neighbors. Call to arms: Hunters dwindle as animal numbers explode.
Far traveler 20081. Free Milkweed Seeds & contributions for Live Monarch Foundation. A Brutal Hunt: How Wildlife Advocates Are Fighting to Stop Coyote Killing Contests. Sustainable Cowboys or Welfare Ranchers of the American West? An Evolving View of Animals. Wildlife Board members. Endangered Species Act not intended as piecemeal. Monarch Butterflies are in Trouble. What Can You Do? Time to connect dots in brucellosis series - The New West - JHN&G Mobile. Bad News - SS-Slocum.info.