U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to list the northern long-eared bat as endangered. The bat’s populations are being decimated by a fungal infection called white nose syndrome. While these bats only touch Montana and Wyoming in our region, they could spread this fungus to other hibernating bats in the Mountain West.

This week a federal judge ordered the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to reevaluate a petition from two advocacy groups, the Buffalo Field Campaign and the Western Watersheds Project. They have been petitioning the federal government since 2014 to recognize the subpopulation of Yellowstone buffalo under the Endangered Species Act.

This weekend two of the four yearling cubs from the famous grizzly bear 399 were captured and collared by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. This comes after the famous grizzly bear and her yearlings have traveled south outside of Grand Teton National Park.

In 2015, the USFWS implemented a new rule known as 10j that turned over black-footed ferret management to the State of Wyoming. According to WildEarth Guardians, Western Watersheds Project, and Rocky Mountain Wild, the state has since mishandled the ferret's reintroduction and management.

The U.S Fish and Wildlife Service said on Thursday it is initiating a comprehensive status review of the gray wolf to determine if federal protections need to be reinstated. Conservation groups petitioned the service because of aggressive wolf hunting campaigns in Montana and Idaho.

The U.S. Interior Department is expanding access to hunting and fishing on about 2.1 million acres of Fish and Wildlife Service land. That’s nearly the size of Yellowstone National Park. While hunters and anglers applaud the efforts, other conservation groups believe that refuges shouldn’t have hunting or angling at all.

An intensive 14-day hazing operation on a grizzly family has seen initial success. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said that Grizzly 863, who is also known as Felicia, and her two cubs are learning to avoid vehicles and people.

After the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service started hazing a famous grizzly and her two cubs, the public believes the bears will be killed by the agency. Grizzly 863, also known as Felicia, has been living in an area of Togwotee Pass for the past six years. She has become a popular bear since she can be viewed near the highway.

State legislatures in Montana and Idaho have recently passed policies that increase the number of wolves that can be harvested, and methods to…

We’ve heard a lot about wolf reintroduction in our region, but that’s not the only carnivore environmentalists want to bring back.