http://idahohuntingtoday.com/blog Online Hunting Magazine Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:29:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As the courts continue to decide what the Endangered Species Act is for, we have reached a point where it appears now that our wildlife that needs protecting is in eminent danger. Yesterday, Federal Judge Paul L. Friedman, ordered that the gray wolf in the Western Great Lakes region be ... http://idahohuntingtoday.com/blog/index.php/2008/09/30/the-endangered-species-act-is-now-endangering-our-species/ Wyoming's U.S. Senator John Barrasso yesterday says that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's decision to withdraw its proposal to remove protection of the gray wolf from the Endangered Species Act was a "significant breach of trust". We shouldn't stop at Wyoming. Let's add Idaho and Montana to the list ... http://idahohuntingtoday.com/blog/index.php/2008/09/24/sen-barrasso-says-wyoming-double-crossed-by-usfws/ According to a report filed by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Ed Bangs of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that the federal government is asking that their present plan to remove the gray wolf from protection under the Endangered Species Act be withdrawn. Earlier this year the USFWS announced it would ... http://idahohuntingtoday.com/blog/index.php/2008/09/17/us-fish-and-wildlife-service-turning-its-back-on-wolf-delisting/ The Endangered Species Act of 1973 was created and made law in order to help stop the eradication of certain species of animals, plants and their habitats. As such, a struggle of power has arisen between the states' guaranteed right to "own" and manage its wildlife and a federal government ... http://idahohuntingtoday.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/29/are-states-stripped-of-their-power-to-manage-wildlife-because-of-endangered-species-act-and-commerce-clause/ exsec@ios.doi.gov Below is a copy of the email I sent to Department of Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne asking him to please consider appealing the ruling of Judge Donald Molloy that placed the gray wolf back under protection of the Endangered Species Act. Above is Sec. Kempthorne's email address. I urge each ... http://idahohuntingtoday.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/20/a-letter-to-sec-dirk-kempthorne/ In what can only be taken as an outright thumbing of one's nose at the Ninth District Court of appeals, Judge Donald Molloy, exhibits total disregard for any science he doesn't like while going one step further and pretending to be a scientist to define a scientific term he hangs ... http://idahohuntingtoday.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/12/activist-judge-molloy-tosses-science-defines-genetic-exchange/ You cannot deny what's taking place in Idaho concerning the overblown wolf population, or can you? Seems efforts are being exerted to do just that in hopes the wolf lovers and animal rights groups can continue their program of fleecing the public into believing that unmanaged gray wolves in the ... http://idahohuntingtoday.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/01/idaho-wolves-are-great-killing-machines/ A United States District Court judge in Missoula, Montana ruled to reinstate protection of wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains region using the same ridiculous data he claimed the feds used in support of delisting. District Judge Donald Molloy ruled for the plaintiffs, Defenders of Wildlife, et. al., and granted ... http://idahohuntingtoday.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/21/wolf-injunction-ruling-could-have-just-as-easily-gone-other-way/ It would appear to me that the North Dakota Hunters For Fair Chase has some serious explaining to do and may also be in line to offer up an apology or two for not being very honest and transparent......but they won't. It's not part of their mission. Their goal is ... http://idahohuntingtoday.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/11/north-dakota-fair-chase-official-meets-with-hsus-regional-director/ My god it is late at night - much later than I am accustomed to for doing work but when feeling compelled, as I am at this moment, I have to at least begin this article and finish it in the morning. If I wait until morning, I fear little ... http://idahohuntingtoday.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/26/on-property-by-james-madison/