Tag: Idaho

On his first day studying long-billed curlews (Numenius americanus) in southwest Idaho, Jay Carlisle came across a disturbing find. A curlew lay dead on the side of the road, shot...

What’s killing the curlews? Mostly poachers, according to Boise State University researchers. Long-billed curlews (Numenius americanus) nest in the mountain West, but biologists found their population in southwest Idaho was...

A limited grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) hunt near Yellowstone National Park was recently approved by the Idaho Fish and Game Commission. The state will provide one randomly-selected Idaho resident...

A U.S. District Court has overturned its 2016 ruling that directed the state of Idaho to modify trapping regulations in northern regions of the state to protect Canada lynx (Lynx...

When Diane Boyd arrived in Montana in 1979, the northern Rockies had just one wolf. A lone female wolf, it had wandered from Canada, possibly from as far as Banff...

In Dec. 2016, the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission (CPW) approved two predator management plans in the state – the Piceance Basin Predator Management Plan and Upper Arkansas River Predator...

Goats are coming around the mountains of Yellowstone, according to a new study that shows the introduced animals have expanded their range in the area. But the jury is still...

New information about the likelihood that a wolf pack will reattack livestock could give wildlife managers better tools to prevent such conflicts. “We found that the biggest factor that affected...

University of Idaho’s Student Chapter of TWS was recently featured in an article by Rich Landers on The Spokesman-Review. The chapter competed in the TWS Western Student Conclave this past...