Washington: Moose trapped in ice (video)
Wyoming: Dubois man fined for killing deer with snares
This guy should have had his hunting and trapping privileges revoked for the rest of his life.
Judge Robert Denhardt recently fined Robert Charles Johnsen $1,600 for eight counts of taking a deer without a license with his snares. In addition, Denhardt revoked Johnsen’s privilege to obtain a trapping license for five years and his privilege to use snares for 24 years, and ordered him to forfeit his trapping equipment — 271 leg-hold traps and 127 snares — to the Wyoming Game and Fish Department.
Flathead: The next national park?
This is an amazingly scenic and lush area next to Glacier National Park and Waterton National Park. It borders both of them.
One outspoken critic of the proposal is Mike Sosnowski, a Fernie-based backcountry snowmobile-tour operator who was elected as a regional district director in 2005.
Montana: Lewis and Clark National Forest travel plans upheld
Final travel plan decisions reducing the number of acres open to motorized travel in Lewis and Clark National Forest have been upheld by the U.S. Forest Service’s regional office in Missoula.
Colorado: Beetles may wipe out state’s lodgepoles
The infestation that was first detected in 1996 grew by half-million acres last year, bringing the total number of acres attacked by bark beetles to 1.5 million, state and federal forestry officials said Monday.
Poll of Idaho voters opposes Bush plan to develop six million acres of roadless lands
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A new poll released today finds that a majority of Idaho voters oppose a Bush administration plan to open six million acres, including areas in Idaho’s Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, to phosphate mining, commercial logging and energy exploration.