Despite increased wolf hunting and trapping opportunities and expanded methods of take, the state reported over the summer that the population and distribution of wolves across Montana remained stable through the season. “Trophy hunting for wolves does not put food on anyone’s table, make elk populations healthier, or protect livestock. Montana’s pile of wolf carcasses stacks higher every day, and we are done waiting for somebody else to act,” she said. It’s an ideology Townsend shares, and in her opinion, points to larger issues around conservation that need to be addressed. In her opinion, while the park is attempting to create a cold-water refuge for this species, it is a “Band-Aid solution,” one that does not address that waters are warming all over the West, and the world.
He oversaw the placement of William Perry Pendley, a person who spent much of his career calling for the sell off our public lands, to lead the Bureau of Land Management. Zinke was given a chance to show that he could represent Montanans’ interests and he failed. It’s one thing to say you’re for hunters, anglers and the lands and waters we all enjoy, and another to actually conserve special places and strike a balance on the management of our public lands. As hunters and anglers, it is imperative that we scrutinize candidates. What is their voting history in regards to public lands and wildlife? Do they support that wildlife and waterways belong to the people of Montana and not just a few lucky, wealthy citizens?
The moisture brought rain below about 5,000 feet elevation and snow above. The high-elevation snow may have driven wildlife movement that contributed to hunter success, according to FWP. And looser regulations on white-tailed deer hunting for the first week of the season “contributed to a bit of an increase in harvest.”
In addition, studies are being conducted with radio collared fox, and any help in locating foxes and their dens is crucial to the study. This population survey is the primary method for FWP to estimate swift fox population size and trend in this northern-most extent of their range. Since 2000, and about every five years since then, FWP has partnered with Canada to conduct a survey to try and determine swift fox population and distribution.
But he said this formal mapping process will likely take years, especially as the Bureau of Land Management is still significantly understaffed. He added that many areas of public land are still impossible to access, completely surrounded by private land. That’s either because ranches don’t want to deal with hunters, or because they’ve sold their property. Those factors have not been fully contemplated in years past, the group said. The campaign to list the grayling helped launch the Big Hole Watershed Committee in 1995 and encouraged participating ranchers to voluntarily leave some water in the river instead of withdrawing it for irrigation. The alternative to participation, arguably, was the potential for having the Fish and Wildlife Service be involved in irrigation decisions on ranches reliant on hay and alfalfa to feed livestock.
Through hybridization, i.e. the mixing of gene pools, they threaten the existence of native cutthroat trout within the same Saint Mary’s waterways . But it’s not as simple as translocating this species into the park. In order to create an environment for these fish, NPS first needs to get rid of the non-native trout that currently inhabit that lake. Tiny, shy and nocturnal, swift foxes have stealthily invaded pockets of Montana where they haven’t been seen for almost a century. The crews have been training the last few weeks to learn how to successfully trap, handle and take pertinent data from trapped swift fox.
In 2019, that meant that condors were protected from an estimated four tons of contaminated flesh. Another study showed that the switch to non-lead ammunition in Teton County, Wyoming, has decreased lead exposure in bald eagles. About five years ago, on a stretch of Wyoming’s high prairie where wind turbines blink their eerie red lights at night and their blades pulse in every season, the raptor researchers Vincent Slabe and Ross Crandall came up with an idea.
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