As whitebark pines in the Northern Rockies succumb to pine beetles and blister rust, hardworking climbers defy gravity to collect pine cones from canopies to supply efforts to breed more resilient and resistant trees.
The group Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife has helped to
protect a lot of Western land and wildlife – while doing its
best to kill off as many predators as possible
The escape of 100 domestic elk from self-styled mountain
man Rex Rammell’s Idaho game farm shows up the foolishness of
the state’s permissive attitude toward the industry
The first bison hunt in 15 years was supposed to offer hope for a reasonable solution to Yellowstone’s ‘buffalo problem,’ but a lifelong hunter who watched it says the senseless slaughter continues.
In Coahuila, Mexico, the corporate colossus CEMEX is
working to create a "Mexican Yellowstone" that would preserve the
rich wildlife and wild country of the Sierra El Carmen.
In Colorado, Chronic Wasting Disease has spread from
infected elk at the Elk Echo Ranch to seven elk ranch herds around
the state, and some are afraid it could spread further and infect
wild deer and elk.
In Arizona, Tonto National Forest bans recreational
shooting on 81,000 acres of "urban interface," where the forest
meets the burgeoning Phoenix-like cities.
With Chronic Wasting Disease appearing on elk farms, some
have begun to question whether the unregulated trade in velvet
antlers, used for Oriental and folk medicine, might expose people
to a variant form of Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease.
In Montana, the sportsmen's group MADCOW - Montanans
Against the Domestication and Commercialization of Wildlife - has
put Initiative 143 on the ballot to end "canned hunting" on the
state's elk ranches.
Doug Hawes-Davis' new video documentary, "Killing Coyote,"
goes inside the battle waged by humans against one of the most
resilient predators, the coyote.
At the Kesler Game Farm near Philipsburg, Mont., 89 elk
are destroyed because they have chronic wasting disease, and some
Montana authorities fear game farms are helping to spread the
deadly, mysterious disease.
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