The Wildlife News

A 4 percent harvest, a money-losing program, and a recreation economy 100 times bigger. The numbers tell a different story than the emergency declaration.

by Will Pattiz and More T...

We often hear that state wildlife management is science-based. What does this mean?

Tenet 7 of the North American Model of Wildlife Management states: “Wildlife policy decisions are based on sound science.” Or some variation of the same. This is an improvement. We don’t want wildlife policy based on unsound science, whatever that might be. But what is the ...

How one Idaho resident’s frustration with trespassing cattle launched a 30-year battle for the public lands.

EDITOR’s NOTE: I have worked with Jon Marvel over the last nearly quarter of a century. Jon shows what one person can do. In 2000 I was working for the Forest Service. One of my tasks was to document public complaints about the sheep permittee who had permits to gra...

The livestock industry and Congress are promoting livestock grazing as a fire prevention measure without considering the numerous ecological and economic impacts. Photo by George Wuerthner

Once more, we are seeing the livestock industry, as well as both

by David Stalling – From the Wild Side

One of the biggest myths hunters love to tell — and one of the sacred tenets of the so-called North American Model of Wildlife Conservation — is that wildlife management is based on sound science.

A lot of the time, it is no...