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Also In The News....
PM highlights money for parks, conservation as U.S. changes course on climate
Times Colonist
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces funding - $364 million over two years - for parks, conservation areas and the completion of the Trans Canada Trail.
Calgary Herald - Parks Canada documents show the proposed trail down the Icefields Parkway between Banff and Jasper raises a host of complications, from damage to wildlife habitat to safety concerns and increased development pressure.
CTV News
- Grade 8 students from a Victoria middle school and an animal protection group call on the B.C. government to ban trophy hunting of grizzly bears ahead of the 2017 hunting season.
Billings Gazette - Using a new method of DNA extraction, researchers believe the first bison migration might have occurred 130,000 to 195,000 years ago, much later than previously thought.
Chronic wasting disease reaches Green River Basin
Casper Star Tribune
- A contagious neurological disease that kills elk, deer and moose continues to spread west across Wyoming and was recently found in the Green River Basin.
The Jane Goodall of wolves
Flathead Beacon
- Nearly 40 years after Diane Boyd started monitoring the first radio-collared wolf to recolonize the Western U.S. from Canada, she has come full circle with her new job as wolf management specialist for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks.
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