The Wildlife News

Here we  go again.  Wolves were delisted from the Endangered Species Act in Idaho and Montana in 2011 by a congressional budget rider. This was a cynical move by Democratic Senator Jon Tester to retain his seat in the 2012 election, trying to demonstrate to rural Montana voters that he was just as insensitive to wildlife and environmental issues as his republican opponent....

There is cheap grazing. And then there is $1.35 a month to graze a cow and her calf on America’s public lands.

That was the federal grazing fee in 2021:

Few ideas in North American hunting are treated with greater reverence than fair chase. Most hunters know the phrase. Many organizations promote it. Wildlife agencies often invoke it as an ethical ideal.

But what exactly is it? The more I think about the term, the le...

Riparian areas, those lush green zones along creeks, are among the most important habitats in the West. Riparian areas support 70–80 percent of the West’s wildlife. They also help regulate water flow, acting like a sponge that soaks up water and slowly releases it throughout the summe...

The third-grade classes at Evergreen Elementary had been looking forward to Nature Week all year.

There had been some discussion among parents about taking the children to one of the remaining outdoor conservation areas, but the closest was nearly eight hundred miles away, admission was limited by lottery, and most of the original wildlife had disappeared ...