By Ashley Phillips
Green Right Now
Most of us grew up watching Yogi Bear, who was “smarter than the average bear” and his sidekick Boo Boo, devour “pic-a-nic baskets”. They seemed friendly. However, real bears are not like the cartoon. In parks, if you leave food out, the bears will not only eat it, they will begin to frequent the campsites expecting more food.
Even worse, bears that grow accustomed to human food can become aggressive toward humans, according 
to Yellowstone biologists. This is obviously a danger to Yellowstone visitors, but it is also a danger to the bears. A bear that acts aggressively is usually a bear that has to be removed from the population and euthanized.
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Wolves under fire; Idaho hunter called ‘wolf murderer’
From Green Right Now Reports
At least three of Idaho’s wolves have been killed as hunting commenced this week under the first authorized sport wolf hunt in the lower 48 states.
But while the hunt has attracted sportspeople, it has repelled others. A Lewiston-area man who killed the first wolf on opening day told the local media that he has received numerous calls of protest.
Robert Millage, a real estate agent, says he’s been called a “wolf murderer, a fat redneck and other names” in some 50 phone calls and hundreds of e-mails, according to the Lewiston Tribune. (To see a picture of the young wolf Millage killed view the story on Lewiston’s KLEW-TV.)
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Tags: · Defenders of Wildlife, endangered species, Friends of Animals, gray wolves, Idaho, Montana, Rocky Mountain Gray Wolf, Rodger Schlickeisen, Suzanne Stone, Wolf hunting, Wolves, Wyoming, Yellowstone
US Rocky Mountain wolves to be hunted; conservationists protest
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
It would almost be easier to spot a Rocky Mountain Gray Wolf than to follow the legal wrangling around these once-endangered, recently delisted and soon-to-be-hunted predators.
A quick recap: After a few years of back and forth with environmentalists who argued that the wolves needed continued federal protection, the Bush Administration delisted the animals – took them off the Endangered Species List – in 2008. Enviros sued and a federal court agreed that delisting was premature and that the 1,500 or so wolves in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming were not at sustainable levels. The wolves were restored to endangered status.
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Tags: · Endangered Species List, endangered wolves, Idaho, Montana, Rocky Mountain gray wolves, US Fish & Wildlife Service, wolves in peril, Wyoming, Yellowstone
