Press Release in Island Park News 8/26/2021 Island Park Idaho – August 19, 2021 — Henrys Fork Wildlife Alliance (HFWA) has a goal to remove obsolete barbed wire fences that are no longer needed or used, and are barriers to wildlife movement. The group completed its first fence removal project on private land in July […]
By Aaron Brown MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, Wyo. (Release) – As the Yellowstone 150th anniversary approaches in 2022, the park is working to engage with Tribes around potential actions to expand tribal presence and representation of their important cultural heritage in the park during the anniversary and beyond. Native Americans have been living in and connected to […]
Published in East Idaho News on July 10, 2021 ISLAND PARK – John Poloski said he doesn’t want to see any more deer die after becoming entangled in barbed wire fence. Rick Sitts said obsolete fences are significant barriers to migrating pronghorn, deer, elk and bighorn sheep, all of which he has seen moving through […]
By Bill Schiess, EastIdahoNews.com columnist “There have been bluebirds in our backyard all day,” my wife told me as I got home from a rock hunting trip. “Sometime they seem to cover the ground under the black feeder.” My youngest daughter, Breezy, who lives in Meridian, had given me a nice black-mesh feeder along with […]
By Dustin Bleizeffer WYOMING — Average temperatures are rising in the Greater Yellowstone Area, resulting in less snow, earlier runoff and major economic implications in the western headwaters region, according to a newly released climate study. The changes threaten to upset traditional land uses and commerce for a region that has seen its population more […]
In November, the government of Montana finalized a strategy that blazes new ground for how states can identify and conserve wildlife migration routes.
By MATTHEW BROWN BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Climate change, voracious beetles and disease are imperiling the long-term survival of a high-elevation pine tree that’s a key source of food for some grizzly bears and found across the West, U.S. officials said Tuesday. A Fish and Wildlife Service proposal scheduled to be published Wednesday would protect […]
BY ANDREW-ROSSI With the millions of dollars needed to build a single wildlife overpass, why even bother with such expensive infrastructure? Wyoming Game and Fish director Angi Bruce recently answered that question on the agency’s website. While both Game and Fish WYDOT are hedging their bets and budgets on wildlife overpasses, they acknowledge that building these structures […]
By JERRY PAINTER jpainter@postregister.com Western ungulates — mule deer, elk, pronghorn, moose and bison — like to move. Like mule deer 255, who each spring follows the green-up from Rock Springs, Wyo., all the way to Island Park, a nearly 300-mile roundtrip. Many ungulates famously travel great distances to find suitable winter and summer grounds. […]
Volunteers from three southeast Idaho organizations participated recently in an Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) project to radio collar pronghorn.
