Outdoor News Bulletin

January 2008

Corn Prices as High as an Elephant?s Eye Bodes Ill for CRP

Massive Government Spending Bill Signed into Law

Got Warming?

December 2007

Farm Bill Goes to Conference Committee

Moose Returns!

Park Service Takes Controversial Aim at Elk Overpopulation

National Wildlife Refuges Pack Huge Economic Punch

Gene Mutation Likely Made West Nile Virus More Virulent in Crows

Federal Judge Sends Back Sage-grouse Decision

Worth Reading

November 2007

Warner-Lieberman climate change bill gets warmer

Scaup deaths in Minnesota linked to parasite

WMI's Distinguished Service Award gets distinguished namesake

Southeast states seek permanent operational home for bobwhite initiative

3rd International CWD Symposium slated

Conserving the cradle of conservation

Growth in wind power spurs efforts to reduce impacts to wildlife

National outdoor recreation report revealed and revealing

October 2007

Habitat goals for migratory birds in the Prairie Pothole Region reportedly will fail at current rate

BLM cancels Utah's November lease sale

Government finds Farm Bill conservation practices at costly cross purpose

New National Elk Refuge hunts begin

Northeast gets aid after landscape-scale conservation conundrums

Exhibit space available at 73rd NAWNRC

Bad news moose

September 2007

Reviewers rip spotted owl recovery plan

Northern Rockies? gray wolf delisting possibly no longer detained

Conservation organization sues Interior over energy development

North American Conference Workshop call for papers

Baucus backs Farm Bill funding shift

Shrinking sea ice could drastically impact polar bear populations

August 2007

A different kind of warden to take helm of Wisconsin DNR

Bighorn deaths linked to bacterium

Fish, wildlife and climate change workshop slated for 73rd North American Conference

Yellowstone Bison may have new route to winter range

Congress focuses on national wildlife refuges

July 2007

New refuge policies finally make it across the finish line

Worth reading

Davy Crockett turns over...again

Court halts and lambastes BLM's new "and improved" grazing regulations

Pine straw proposal would reverse progress for wildlife on southern CRP

Fourth Special Session named for 73rd Conference

Summit and new study results add to sage-grouse deliberations

Sustaining North America's hunting heritage will be the focus of Conference workshop

Farm Bill plows on

June 2007

MIA moose book alive, well and improved

Environmental groups sue to restore protections for Yellowstone grizz

Farm Bill headed for fast track in House

CWD Alliance puts chronic wasting disease on the map

Conservation honors bestowed

Worth reading

May 2007

Special Sessions Announced for 73rd North American Conference

Public hearings conclude on Northern Rockies gray wolf delisting proposal

CWD Alliance puts chronic wasting disease on the map

Coyotes not dissuaded by Chicago politics or its perpetual road construction:

New addition to WMI family

Worth reading

WMI's path forward

April 2007

New Chapter for WMI

March 2007

Chronic Wasting Disease update

Conservationists irked by USDA promotion of amber waves of gas at CRP expense

National Wildlife Refuges to suffer large cutbacks in staff:

Tennessee provides leadership for native grass restoration in the Southeast:

Rio Grande Bosque legislation introduced

Worth reading:

February 2007

Secretary Kempthorne and Richard Louv to keynote North American Conference:

Elk book again available and at huge discount:

Predator/prey workshop at North American set agenda:

Proposed plowing of the Farm Bill

Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit partners advocate rejecting budget request:

Worth reading

January 2007

Cellulose may soon take the starch out of ethanol

Proposal for year-round drilling on critical big game range gains momentum and contention:

76th (2011) North American Conference slated

Moguls may preempt habitat for threatened lynx

WMI launches new Website:

Worth reading

Ruffed grouse have a plan

Reports of National Bison Range agreement demise prove to be greatly exaggerated

December 2006

72nd North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference registration:

November 2006

North American Bird Species Shown to be Susceptible to Avian Influenza

Longleaf pine restoration gets huge boost from Conservation Reserve Program

Worth reading

Predator/prey workshop to be held at North American Conference

New book gets rave notice

With dove vote, Michiganders shoot science-based wildlife management in the foot

Geothermal energy issue still boiling at the Valles Caldera National Preserve

Northeast states get positively proactive on State Wildlife Action Plans

Nominations sought for 2007 northern bobwhite quail awards

Controversy still stalking elk feedgrounds in Wyoming

October 2006

Hunting/conservation organizations line up to urge expanded use of Coop Units

Suspected culprit identified in CWD transmission

Prairie Grouse Management Plan making progress

Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration Act is reauthorized

Worth reading

Worth reading

September 2006

Related meeting and function requests being accepted for 72nd North American Conference

Waterfowl gain reprieve from plan to expand oil and gas development in Alaska

Matt Dunfee to join WMI

Antis take a shot at the mourning dove hunting season in Michigan