Outdoor News Bulletin

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The Outdoor News Bulletin (ONB) was established by the Wildlife Management Institute in 1946. Distributed once a month, the ONB covers key issues and updates on wildlife and natural resource management.

May 2008
Stage Set for 2008 Wildlife Policy Conference
Worth Reading
Nanook Gets Threatened
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Sets New Course
April 2008
Woodcock Initiative and Its Partners Honored
Farm Bill Remains Mired
Worth Reading
Free CWD Video Is Here and Now
Gary T. Myers Receives WMI?s 2008 Grinnell Award
Borderland Red Light Green Light
Appalachian Timberdoodle Initiative Gets Busy
Bob Carmichael Receives WMI 2008 Presidents Award
March 2008
Boost Urged for Refuge Funding
Court Requires FCC to Make Cell Towers More Bird Friendly
Expired Farm Bill Expiration Gets Brief Extension
74th North American Conference Recommendations
Department of Agriculture Program Offers SAFE-ty Net for Wildlife?Maybe
Worth Reading
Ag Secretary and FWS Director to Keynote North American Conference
Missouri County Scores First ?Mission Accomplished? for Bobwhite Restoration
The Rush to Maximize Crop Production for Energy May Prove Bio-Fuelish
Fish and Wildlife Service Announces Intention to Delist Wolves in the Northern Rockies
February 2008
Early Estimates of Greenhouse Gas Canned
Hardrock Mining Reform between a Rock and a Hard Place?
Climate Change Legislation Heating Up
Feds Back Colorado Play to Protect Wintering Big Game
Worth Reading - John James Audubon
Conservation Leaders Program Makes Headway
Redefining Wetland Protections through the Legislative Process
January 2008
Workshop Set on Sustaining North America's Hunting Heritage
Watered Down Energy Bill Enacted
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
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