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August 17th 2010

Fish & Game vows to pursue all legal options  

The Idaho Fish and Game Commission pledged to pursue all legal options to regain full management authority over wolves Monday, including the appeal of a recent federal court decision or legislation reversing it.
Commissioners rejected calls for the state to end all cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to manage wolves in Idaho. Instead commissioners decided Idaho would be best served by the state retaining its role as the lead wolf management agency in the state, even though the court ruling stripped it of authority to conduct regulated hunting seasons.
Earlier this month, Judge Donald Molloy of Missoula, Mont., struck down a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rule that removed wolves in Idaho and Montana from federal protection, ending a year of state management and dashing...

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August 13th 2010
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Montana’s Congressman, Denny Rehberg, announced he will seek to remove the gray wolf from consideration under the Endangered Species Act.  Rehberg will support legislation asking Congress to amend the 1973 act "to prohibit treatment of the Gray Wolf as an endangered species or threatened species."  The move comes in response to a recent court ruling effectively reinstating endangered status for the wolf.

"It’s become clear the courts and the environmental extremists have abandoned the principle of sound science when determining the status of the gray wolf," said Rehberg, a member of the Congressional Western Caucus.  "Years of research, dedicated efforts by land owners and local officials, and the expert opinions of on-the-ground wildlife managers have been given a back seat to profit-motivated environmental...
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July 30th 2010
Cody, Wyoming, USA. July 30, 2010. The Payette National Forest (PNF) held a briefing at the Boise National Forest (BNF) headquarters in Idaho on 7/28/10 to announce the Record of Decision (ROD) on the Separation of Wild Sheep and Domestic Sheep and Goats on the PNF.   The ROD is a part of the FINAL SUPPLEMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT, covering the Southwest Idaho Ecogroup Land and Resource Management Plans. To view the plan go to: www.fs.fed.us/r4/payette/.

The Payette Forest considered many management options that will be phased in over the next three years to ensure the risk of contact is minimized. Domestic sheep and goat grazing allotments anywhere there is potential for contact with wild sheep will be closed in roughly an area from the Snake River (Hells Canyon) to the east side of the South Fork of the Salmon River east of Riggins, Idaho. 

This closes...
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July 23rd 2010
WASHINGTON -- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the appointments of 18 people to the Wildlife and Hunting Heritage Conservation Council, a group created earlier this year to advise the two departments about recreational hunting and shooting sports activities and associated wildlife and habitat conservation.
 
“Inspired by the legacy of President Theodore Roosevelt, hunters long have taken the lead in the conservation of our nation’s wildlife and its habitat, and I am pleased so many of the leaders in our nation’s hunting and conservation community have accepted an invitation to serve on the Wildlife and Hunting Heritage Conservation Council,” said Salazar. “At the recent America’s Great Outdoors conference, President Obama said that few pursuits are more satisfying...

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