15 December 2023. Bozeman researcher’s study slams FWP’s wolf counting model; agency says he’s wrong. I know Dr. Bob Crabtree well. This is a very timely and important article.
20 November 2023. Raised by Wolf. This is a nice podcast with Rick McIntyre describing the interactions of 2 early Yellowstone wolves: Wolf 8 and his step-son – who became legendarily famous – Wolf 21. It starts at 21:38 on the link and lasts for about 21 minutes. It is a great listen!
31 October 2023. Meet the leader of Yellowstone’s wolf-watching pack: Rick McIntyre has spent nearly 30 years educating visitors about wolves in Yellowstone National Park.
6 September 2023. Wolves are big business for Yellowstone gateway towns – could the same happen in Colorado? Gardiner, Mont., sits just outside Yellowstone National Park and depends on tourists who come to see the wildlife.
5 August 2023. Sacred Cows, slaughter, and silence: The tragedy on Yellowstone’s northern border. This is a very good analysis of the bison “slaughter” from this past winter and the conservation community’s general lack of willingness to call out the Native Americans doing the vast majority of killing. Of course, there were a few people who spoke up and they are quoted in this article.
21 July 2023. Bison “attacks” in Yellowstone and Theodore Roosevelt National Parks. This <4 minute interview with CNN is a great resource on how to avoid these unfortunate and unnecessary events from happening.
18 July 2023. Tribal Nations Must Honor, Not Destroy, Buffalo Nation, BY JAEDIN MEDICINE ELK. This is important, please read.
18 July 2023. An Open Letter to Tribes Participating in the Yellowstone Buffalo “Hunt”. I am just seeing this from May but it is an important letter written by a Native American himself, calling out other Natives about what they are doing to the bison and being complicit with the state of Montana’s extermination policy. Good job, JAEDIN MEDICINE ELK!
15 July 2023. This ‘Bearish’ Economy Is One Most States Would Love To Have: OFTEN CAST AS LIABILITIES AND VILLAINS BY POLITICIANS, GRIZZLIES AND WOLVES IN YELLOWSTONE REGION ARE BULLISH ASSETS THAT KEEP DELIVERING DIVIDENDS—AS LONG AS THEY REMAIN ALIVE. This is a very important article!
18 June 2023. Wolf management plan should be informed by science. This is a fantastic article by Drs. Doug Smith and Diane Boyd, 2 recently retired wolf biologists. It calls out the state of Montana for politicizing wolf management.
26 May 2023. Court Finds U.S. Fish And Wildlife Service, Forest Service Violated Law By Allowing Killing Of Yellowstone Ecosystem Grizzlies. This is very good news for grizzly bears, and yet more evidence of the anti-predator USFWS which keeps losing cases when allowing the killing of wolves, bears, and other animals. Maybe they should hire people to do their actual job instead of cow-tailing to politics which they always do.
1 May 2023. Where is the outrage at the indiscriminate slaughtering of bison? This is an important article to call out the players in this veritable tragedy. This follows Mr. Wuerthner’s great piece from February which can be found here.
27 March 2023. Thirty Percent of America’s Last Wild Migratory Buffalo Have Been Removed From the Population. This is beyond infuriating. I am grateful to the writer, a Native American, for calling out the park service and other Native groups for contributing to this slaughter. Outrage!
27 March 2023. Jim Bailey: Interior bison initiative neglects mandates.
15 March 2023. Our national mammal deserves to be managed as wildlife. This is a great article to truly transform how bison are managed.
4 March 2023. How to Save Yellowstone’s wolves. This is a great and very detailed article on the former Project Leader of the Yellowstone Wolf Project, Doug Smith.
22 February 2023. Stop slaughtering our national mammal. This is a well written article in the Missoulian, a Montana-based newspaper.
15 February 2023. Activists decry bison ‘hunt’ north of Yellowstone National Park. This is a great article on the essentially canned hunting operations allowed to occur at the Yellowstone border. It is a national disgrace to say the least.
30 January 2023. BEAR MINIMUM: A Biologist Fought to Remove Grizzlies From the Endangered Species List — Until Montana Republicans Changed His Mind. This quote says it all about how special interest based wildlife management has become, “It’s a miniscule number of people that want to do this,” Servheen said. “They’re a super isolated special interest, and the Legislature is going in and granting these people privileges to do things which are harmful to grizzly bears.”
21 January 2023. Tribal Hunter Accidentally Shot – On the Buffalo Trail. This incident clearly illustrates the state of Montana’s mis-management of this popular species. Instead of treating it like a wild animal, allowing it to roam on federal and state lands, they are hemmed in around the border of Yellowstone. The hunts effectively are canned hunts until the state allows bison more room to roam. All other agencies – and the general public – want this. Come on Montana officials – wake up! January 25: Here is another article on the subject.