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Nice article in Bay Nature with a little bit of hope for the future of condor recovery

Wyoming Fish and Game has closed Trophy Hunt Area 1 & 2 as killing quota has already been met just days after hunting season opened. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdhA3gqJZSn/?stkn=MTU2em5vY29lcGJzMw==

We won’t know if the wolves were the Mollie’s although last report is that the pack is in the park. But no wolf’s life is less important than another in many ways.

Wolf mortality won’t be clarified until spring. Any post stating that any Mollie’s Pack member has been killed is a lie for clicks and clout. Wyoming Fish & Game will not release that info until spring. Be careful who you listen to and what you spread.

RIP to the wolves killed for no good reason in the WY hunt

What are some key species plants that went extinct or almost extinct in the mythic “Wild West” period of the 19th century that went along with the slaughter of bison, wolves, and bears etc?

Hi, I am a single parent and am fighting cancer and it’s very serious. I want to go to Alaska and take my children. It’s the only thing on my bucket list: Alaska and *brown bears* (we have black bears where I live). It looks like Brooks Falls is booked until 2028. I need to go next summer.

What should I do to make sure me and my kids get to go and where and when and which tours? Any companies that are trustworthy?

Thank you

I want to go to brooks falls and it looks like a lot of things are booked until late August. Is that a good time to visit? Will it be cold and rainy? Crowded?

What are some of the best stories about beaver reintroductions, rewilding, and ecosystem restoration?

Looking for post-2018, after Eager stories :)

What are some of the best stories about beaver reintroductions, rewilding, and ecosystem restoration?

Operation Highdive has been covered lol

What are some of the most interesting and exciting existing projects and potential opportunities in the Western United States (West of the Rockies)?

Any favorites stand out? Why?

Excuse the naïveté but I’m trying to understand more about public lands grazing for things I’m writing. Do ranchers ever resent other ranchers? And if so what would make you resent another rancher?

Do some private lands ranchers resent public lands ranchers who graze cheaper and get the perks that come with big public lands allotments, or that don’t take care of their allotments? Or is it basically a tribal kind of bond like ranchers vs everyone else ?

Is there a growing resentment from independent ranchers of the cattlemen’s lobby (like ncba)? Seems like I’ve seen posts like that.

Anyone resent a kind of rancher for giving the industry a bad name? Like billionaire public lands ranchers? Or more boutique ranchers or landowners? Or is it all in the family so to speak?

Given the hardships of ranching in the arid and semi arid American West - problems of cost, heavy labor, weather, climate, water, critters, soil health, agency management, what ever else makes the life tough…

What would it take for you to either:

1. cash out and sell and retire your allotments/permits and leases
2. take a buyout to help rewild or restore and better manage the land but without commercial cattle - say smaller herds and making your income more from the restoration subsidy.

What would motivate you and how would it work? What if the BLM (or other agency)paid you to restore and rewild, with or without cattle as non commercial herds (say just conservation grazing)

I guess I’m asking, what if you earned an income from not ranching. Would that be acceptable or is there something about the identity and role in the community as a food provider that would be hard to let go? If you could make more money growing legumes, would you switch? If you could make more money rewilding would you switch?

For private lands ranchers, what if you could lease your land to the government to rewild instead of grazing livestock, would you? Same question for the public lands checker boarders.

Not saying it’s possible just curious what it would take to make a shift?

This is an interesting blog from a hunter (I’m not the author) and conservationist. He points out the ways hunters and anglers do and don’t fund conservation with licenses and fees and fuel, etc. but also the idea that state Fish & Game agencies = conservation is not accurate and that MOST “conservation funding” doesn’t come from hunters and anglers - though some folks like to say it does. Most conservation work is carried out not by state Fish & Game but by federal agencies, tribal governments, nonprofit organizations, universities, private landowners, conservation groups, and local governments. Most conservation funding isn’t from fishing and hunting, it comes from public funding. This is from multiple studies analyzing costs.

Thoughts? Read beyond my summary and the whole argument and let me know what you think.

Thought this was an interesting article about how even seemingly UNBIASED RESEARCH has cultural biases in the language and words chosen to analyze and discuss (of course that’s true for any research: the way we talk about it matters, but especially for such a culturally controversial deep rooted topic as wolves)

https://open.substack.com/pub/davidstalling/p/the-noble-traditional-heritage-sound?utm\_campaign=post&utm\_medium=web

I’m writing an essay on beavers and rewilding and ranching, and how one gets in the way of the other sometimes. What are some things I should include - facts, stories, anecdotes, people, places, examples, anything interesting that I can research and put into the essay - to show how ranching can harm beavers, who are amazing little ecosystem engineers?

And what great examples are there of beavers used in rewilding projects in the US especially? Maybe some lesser known ones I can mention or people to interview? Particularly interested in the West

Thanks! 🦫

I’m writing an essay on beavers and agriculture, specifically ranching (I’m especially interested in public lands ranching). What are some things I should include - facts, stories, anecdotes, people, places, examples, anything interesting that I can research and put into the essay - to show how ranching can harm beavers, who are amazing little ecosystem engineers?

And what great examples are there of beavers used in rewilding projects in the US especially? Maybe some lesser known ones I can mention or people to interview?

Especially for grizzly bears and the importance of connectivity in the lower 48. What interesting behaviors and needs of grizzly bears should I make sure to mention? What are stories and facts and people to mention? I want to make sure readers learn to love how unique grizzly bears are and want to fight for their conservation

I was reading that NASDAQ and SP500 are being forced to buy this overvalued company come the IPO launch and it’s in the red already and will crash - and that this could affect people’s retirements who are invested in NASDAQ (which my 401k is in, at a former employer and I can’t change it) and SP500 (which is my favorite index and most of my portfolio).

I am a low income single parent who didn’t start investing until recently and I only have a decade left before retirement. I can’t f around.

What’s the read on how SpcX is going to affect people? And don’t tell me to buy spce lol

Includes discussions of Measure P, IOLERO, and gives a pretty good insight to candidate personalities and endorsements - not who can post the biggest yard signs