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Utah begins to cull mountain lions to ‘study’ the effect (ap)
Utah’s mountain lion cull follows hard upon a 2023 state law that opened up year-round, mountain lion killing without requiring permits.

For waste and inefficiency, you can’t beat America’s government-forced corn ethanol gas (ap)
Corn ethanol, also known as grain alcohol, has been burned in gasoline engines and human stomachs since before Henry Ford was born. Itap hard on both, so until 35 years...

ap: Wolves need federal protection to survive
"Wolf recovery in the West — the biggest success in wildlife management history — took decades to achieve." —Ted Williams, Writers on the Range

ap: How a controversial poison found in Roundup saved Utah Lake
So thick was Utah Lake’s infestation that wildlife couldn’t move through it, and people couldn’t access the lake.

ap: Fur trapping didn’t stop in 1918 — Colorado hunters still pursue valuable bobcat pelts
Unlike the rest of modern wildlife management, killing bobcats is unregulated, driven not by science but by fur prices. We’re stuck in the 19th Century when market hunters shot boatloads...

ap: Will this frog survive the showdown of natural ecosystems vs. outdoor recreation?
Shortly after World War II, California fish managers had a brainstorm: They loaded juvenile trout into airplanes and saturation-bombed naturally fishless lakes in the High Sierra Mountains of California. Some...

ap: Let’s clear up some facts about the so-called “Keystone Pipeline”
What some pipeline advocates think is the “Keystone Pipeline” is a 1,700-mile “shortcut” called Keystone XL, or KXL. It would have sliced through Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma...

Williams: Sportsmen can thank themselves for the attack on public lands
Without the support of hunters and anglers, Donald Trump wouldn’t be president and Ryan Zinke wouldn’t be interior secretary. Now those groups say they are astonished by the administration's policies.