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    Controversial forestry scientist Tom Bonnicksen believes increased logging is necessary to fight global warming. Subscribers only

  • Still Howling Wolf

    Ranchers and environmentalists in Wyoming are still squabbling over wolves as the animal bounces on and off the endangered species list. Subscribers only

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    California is enthusiastic about creating “water banks” to help the state’s cities weather future droughts. Subscribers only

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    In some Western states, including Colorado, prison inmates are taking the place of immigrant farmworkers. Subscribers only

 

Results for keyword: Wolves

  • Wildlife wars

    There’s fighting over the endangered status of wolves, sage grouse, etc., and protecting wildlife from drilling.

  • Video: Still howling wolf

    The passionate and complicated feelings people have about living with wolves in the Northern Rockies.

  • Drilling, wolves, guns and plutonium

    “Drill here, drill now!” on the ground and in Western politics; Northern Rockies wolves protected again – and on the move; Obama backs Second Amendment; gas pains in the West; plutonium spill in Boulder.

  • Don’t call plugging wolves hunting

    Derek Goldman criticizes Wyoming’s policy that allows wolves to be shot on sight.

  • Agency probes wolf-baiting claims

    Reintroduction program now clouded by investigation

  • Canis fiasco

    A chaotic effort to restore Mexican wolves in New Mexico and a problem with too many elk in Colorado are two facets of the same problem: Our propensity to manage nature in very unnatural ways.

  • Wolves have a reputation that’s larger than life

    Some hunters are blaming the Big Bad Wolf for a decline in the northern Yellowstone elk herd, but Dan Whipple points out that recent weather – and Montana hunting policy – are more likely to be responsible.

  • Two weeks in the West

    Forest Service faces budget cuts; Rural Schools Act dies; local governments may have to pay more firefighting costs; user fees upheld; grazing fees go down; Klamath dams may fall; livestock killed by wolves, and wolves killed; and UFOs in the West.

  • Mass wolf kill rests on shaky science

    Idaho’s Fish and Game Department wants to boost dwindling elk numbers by killing wolves in the Lolo management zone

  • First fatal wolf attack recorded in North America?

    A 22-year-old Canadian man, whose partially eaten body was found in the woods of northern Saskatchewan, may represent the first documented instance of a human being killed by healthy wolves in North America

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