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October 2009
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Wild Sheep Foundation Adopts Boone and Crockett Scoring SystemOctober 23rd 2009
Contact: Steve Wagner, Blue Heron Communications, 800‑654‑3766 or steve@blueheroncomm.com
MISSOULA, Mont.—The Wild Sheep Foundation (WSF) has formally endorsed the Boone and Crockett sco... -
Federal judge shutters Idaho grazing allotmentOctober 21st 2009BOISE, Idaho (AP) - A federal judge has ordered a western Idaho rancher
to keep his sheep off his family’s traditional grazing ground on public
land to protect wild native bighorns. Federal land managers on Monday
opted not to fight the ruling.
U.S. District Judge Lyn... -
Salazar Reforms U.S. Oil Shale Program Offers New RD&D Leases; Asks IG to Investigate 11th Hour Lease AddendaOctober 20th 2009WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today took steps to help the country develop technologies that could potentially unlock the nation’s oil shale reserves while protecting taxpayers, water resources, the environment, and local communities.
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Wyo plans to add bighorn sheep to mountain herdOctober 18th 2009CHEYENNE -- The Wyoming Game and Fish Department plans to supplement a dwindling bighorn sheep herd in south-central Wyoming with 60 animals from Utah and Oregon, a strategy officials hope will give the herd its best chance for survival.
Fewer than 20 sheep remain in the existing herd in ... -
SALAZAR SAYS IT’S A ‘NEW DAY’ FOR OIL AND GAS DEVELOPMENTOctober 13th 2009Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar October 8 promised a shake-up of BLM’s oil and gas leasing program in favor of protection of natural resources.
In the course of anno... -
UI looking into prof’s attendance at bighorn meeting in CaldwellOctober 9th 2009BOISE - The University of Idaho is looking into whether a professor violated terms of her paid leave while it investigates her claims of how bighorn sheep get deadly diseases.
The school is trying to determine what role Marie Bulgin, head of the UI’s Caine Veterinary Teaching and Re... -
New Legislation Will Protect Recreational Hunting and Fishing on Federal LandOctober 8th 2009(Columbus) – Two bills introduced by Senator Lisa Murkowski (R- AK) and U.S. Representative Dan Boren (D- OK) will protect recreational hunting, fishing and shooting on land administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Forest Service.
Backed by the U.S. Sportsmen... -
FWP OKs plan to ship out bighornsOctober 7th 2009Up to 85 bighorn sheep could be shipped from Montana to Utah and Washington under a proposal recently endorsed by the Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission.
Even while agreeing to the proposal, however, commission members questioned why those bighorn sheep - one of Montana’s premier b... -
Supreme Court to hear case on use of hunting, fishing imagesOctober 5th 2009The U.S. Supreme Court is slated to hear arguments Tuesday in a case that will test the First Amendment rights of media to show images of hunting and fishing.
The case, United States v. Stevens, centers around a 1999 federal statute used to prosecute a Virginia man on animal cruelty-rela...
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