by Mike Garrity | Dec 1, 2009 | AWR, wolves
Editorial Not everyone was happy when the gray wolf population in the Northern Rockies, near extinction in the mid-1970’s, staged a remarkable comeback under the protections of the Endangered Species Act. By the end of last year there were about 1,650 in...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 17, 2009 | AWR, Gallatin National Forest, hunting, Lewis and Clark National Forest, wildlife, wolves, Yellowstone National Park
by Eve Byron, Independent Record Montana’s inaugural wolf season ended Monday after the state came close to the predetermined 75-wolf quota. As of Monday, hunters had reported shooting 72 wolves, mainly in the western half of the state, in the first-ever...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 1, 2009 | AWR, hunting, wildlife, wolves
by Michael Jamison of the Missoulian KALISPELL – When a Columbia Falls man pleaded guilty last week to poaching two wolves just outside Glacier National Park, many thought the area’s wolf-hunting quota would be adjusted accordingly. They were wrong....
by Mike Garrity | Nov 1, 2009 | AWR, bears, beehives, bison, buffalo, cattle, coyotes, hunting, Lewis and Clark National Forest, sheep, wolves
by Karl Puckett, Tribune Staff Writer When members of the Ayers family snapped photographs of a grizzly bear spotted on their ranch north of Fort Benton in the early summer, they were documenting the return of the species to its former home on the range. “I...
by Mike Garrity | Oct 25, 2009 | AWR, cattle, elk, hunting, wildlife, wolves, Yellowstone National Park
by Kim Murphy, The Los Angeles Times Reporting from Gardiner, Mont. – Wolf 527 was a survivor. She lived through a rival pack’s crippling 12-day siege of her den. When another pair of wolves laid down stakes in her territory, she killed the mother and...
by Mike Garrity | Oct 12, 2009 | AWR, bears, cattle, deer, elk, sheep, wildlife, wolves
by Eve Byron, Independent Record With an estimated 1,645 gray wolves now on the landscape in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho, their recovery is heralded by many government officials as an amazing success story. Yet it hasn’t come cheap. Americans have spent more than...
