from Earth First! Newswire Earlier this week, Intercept reporter Ryan Devereaux released details of an investigation, seen for the first time by the public, pointing to multiple National Parks Service (NPS) law enforcement rangers participating in what became the highest death count […]
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Large Predators Moving to the City: Urban Coyotes on the Rise
The world is undergoing the largest wave of urban growth in history. In 2008, for the first time in history, more than half of the world’s human population will be living in towns and cities. Many new Urbanites have long, furry muzzles, […]
Continue readingRevenge of the Wolves
Delisted and targeted in Wyoming, wolves attack hunters from the Daily Maul WYOMING, IN THE NOT-TOO-DISTANT FUTURE — Hundreds of hunters are dead this morning after wolves launched a preemptive strike on their would-be human attackers. “We’re taking the fight to the […]
Continue readingHowls of Reprisal: Wolves Return to the Frontlines
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2dQjnz8734&feature=related] Until their reintroduction in the 1990s wolves were all but wiped out in the Northern Rocky Mountains. No wolves had been spotted in Eastern Oregon since 1946, and further west, the last sighting of a wolf in California was in 1924. […]
Continue readingNew Wyoming wolf plan would allow killing of hundreds of wolves
From the Center for Biological Diversity The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that Wyoming has passed legislation and an amendment to its wolf-management plan that will meet federal approval and trigger removal of Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves […]
Continue readingIdaho AG Asked to Investigate Controversial Trapping Photos
Grisly images, depicting a badly injured wolf captured in north Idaho, have gone viral. Posing alongside the animal is a grinning Josh Bransford, an employee of the Nez Perce National Forest. The pictures, which surfaced on the Web in March, continue to […]
Continue readingGrey Wolf Hunts In Northern Rockies To Continue, Rules Federal Appeals Court
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected a lawsuit from conservation groups that want to block wolf hunts that have killed more than 500 of the predators across the Northern Rockies in recent months. The ruling from a […]
Continue readingYellowstone Wolves Help Trees Rebound
by Matthew Brown Gray Wolf BILLINGS,Mont. — Scientists say in a new study that the return of gray wolves has dramatically altered the landscape in portions of Yellowstone National Park by curbing foraging elk herds that prevented new aspen, willow and […]
Continue readingMay the New Year be Wilder
…with more wolves, bears, birds, forests. More crumbling industrial economies and displaced corporations. More connection to the landbase. More attacks on the destroyers of the Earth. More burning banks and bulldozers. More freedom of movement across nationalist boundaries. More wild spirit. Speaking […]
Continue readingState Wolf-hunting Season Extended
By Eve Byron The season was supposed to end on Dec. 31. But since only 106 wolves out of a quota of 220 have been taken to date, the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission decided Thursday to extend the season. “This […]
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