New big game migration maps help inform management
New maps documenting migration routes throughout the West can help inform managers and conservation groups about areas that are important for deer, elk and other ...
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Interior report shows big game conservation progress
The Department of the Interior is making progress in protecting winter range and migration corridors for big game across the West since a 2018 Secretarial Order was ...
Should Idaho bighorn be listed as a record?
There’s no question that the bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) taken by a Nez Perce Tribe member nearly three years ago in Idaho was a big one. But whether or not ...
Migration corridors follow food, avoid human disturbance
Looking across the Wyoming landscape, it might seem like mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) could pick just about anywhere to cross between the high country, where ...
Interior to work with Western states on game management
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke issued a secretarial order last week to direct bureaus within his department to work more closely with Western states on the ...
Lawsuit halts changes to big game habitat management
Following litigation by a coalition of wildlife and sportsmens groups, the U.S. Forest Service has dropped changes to a decades-long big game habitat management ...