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California Legal Foundation Asks: Are Caribou Really Endangered?
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Posted in: Wildlife
Tuesday
22nd
May
2012

California Legal Foundation Asks: Are Caribou Really Endangered?

The short answer is: yes, in Idaho, of course they are — there were a grand total of four of them spotted this winter. But according to an industry and developer-funded California legal organization looking for loopholes, it isn’t that simple. The Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF), a California-based law firm with a take-no-prisoners property rights ideology, has filed a petition on behalf of Idaho snowmobile groups more »

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Monitoring Flight Finds Selkirk Caribou in Idaho
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Posted in: Wildlife
Sunday
26th
Feb
2012

Monitoring Flight Finds Selkirk Caribou in Idaho

We had heard through the grapevine that reporter Becky Kramer had taken a trip with our colleagues at Selkirk Conservation Alliance in their aerial caribou monitoring flight earlier in February. The result is a comprehensive look at the caribou issue in this past Sunday’s Spokesman-Review. An excellent explainer, her story also broke the significant news that the flight found four woodland caribou, hunkering down in more »

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Save the Selkirk Caribou
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Posted in: Wildlife
Sunday
29th
Jan
2012

Save the Selkirk Caribou

The uproar continues over the proposed critical habitat designation for woodland caribou in the Selkirk Mountains. Recently, more than 200 people turned out at an event orchestrated by the Bonner County Commissioners purporting to “coordinate” with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) over the proposal.  In an irony lost on the angry crowd, much of the heated argument against the proposal establishing critical habitat more »

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Posted in: blog, Land Use, Wildlife
Saturday
17th
Dec
2011

Christmas Week in Bonner County Brings Challenges to Drinking Water Protection and Caribou Habitat

‘Twas the week before Christmas and all through Bonner County, a lot of creatures were stirring… because, well, both the Bonner County Commissioners and the Property Rights Council were both still holding meetings. Indeed, this week, the Bonner County Commissioners have an attack on caribou habitat scheduled, and the Property Rights Council will be discussing how to eliminate drinking water protections for county water supplies. more »

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Posted in: blog, Wildlife
Monday
5th
Dec
2011

Critical Habitat for Selkirk Caribou

In response to a successful petition and lawsuit by some of our regional colleagues, last week the U.S.  Fish and Wildlife Service released a mapping of critical habitat for the woodland caribou in the Selkirk Mountains. Some 375,500 acres are designated, most of which is in remote roadless areas in Boundary County, Idaho, with some lands designated in Bonner County, Idaho and Pend Oreille County, more »

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