Traveling the Backcountry of the Northwest – One Hot Spring at a Time
Posts from the ‘endangered species’ category
It’s hard to explain the importance of intact ecosystems, wilderness and habitat conservation land planning to folks these days. Environmental education is weak, and so few of us have real relationships with the great outdoors. We have all forgotten that we are key members of…
The Idaho wolf hunt officially started on September 1st, 2009. I’ve blogged about Idaho’s misguided, misunderstood and uneducated views about wolves a few times in the past. Essentially the state is issuing a ton of wolf tags in order to reach the kill threshold of…
BTW, Today is Endangered Species Day! The following essay snippet was written by Doug Peacock, and is in support of returning Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections to Yellowstone Grizzly Bears. Some 54 grizzly bears were known to have died in 2008, the highest mortality ever…
