Items by Hal Herring
A journalist reflects on energy development on his home turf.
George Black's book details the violent history surrounding Yellowstone National Park.
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.
Carter Niemeyer's memoir Wolfer is the entertaining story of a government trapper who loves wildlife - especially serious predators like wolves.
A strategic miscalculation by environmental groups helped spur the delisting of gray wolves in Montana and Idaho.
Montana wildlife managers say the state's first wolf hunt has been a success -- for both the hunters and their prey.
Hunters and anglers fork out millions each year to support habitat. Isn't it time other green groups did the same?
Hal Herring relates the ugly story of how the Bush administration used its influence to try to kill a story about the impacts of energy development.
Hal Herring believes that Democrats should give up on gun control, not just for the sake of politics but because it’s the right thing to do.
Hal Herring believes that Democrats should give up on gun control –– in order to win in the West and because it’s the right thing to do.
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 writer says the state's permissiveness toward game
farms led to the current mess: Escaped elk threaten wild elk
herds
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
New Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer has a wildly ambitious
plan to solve Yellowstone’s problems with wandering bison and
the brucellosis threat
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.
The Crow Tribe plans to capture 550 elk that roam from its
Montana reservation down into Wyoming, and critics say that the
tribe's foray into game ranching is a plan to steal the public's
wildlife.
Chronic wasting disease is slowly spreading among the
West's deer and elk herds, and some fear that game farms are partly
to blame for the transmission of the deadly disease.
Race-car driver Travis Panko's plan to build a race track
on a ranch near Stevensville, Mont., has many of his Bitterroot
Valley neighbors incensed.
The Yellowstone River is still the longest undammed river
in the Lower 48, but miles of riprap on its banks lock the river
into a channel that is more a rain gutter than a free-flowing
river.
During the height of the boom in harvesting Pacific yew
trees for the cancer-curing taxol in their bark, a logger wrestles
with ambiguous feelings about the trees he is felling for
money.
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