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The U.S. Interior Department has invested $5 million in reintroducing bison to Native American Tribal lands across the country. Montana s iconic Yellowstone buffalo are playing a big part. .
A new partnership between the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and the group Backcountry Hunters and Anglers aims to improve migration corridors and other critical habitat for Wyoming s iconic big game species. Brittany Parker - habitat stewardship coordinator with Backcountry - said a big emphasis of their work will be removing or modifying outdated fencing on public lands, to help animals get under or over barriers and access food. .
What began as an emergency measure - to help Wyoming elk herds hit by a series of extremely harsh winters in 1909 - has become a major source of contention over Wyoming Game and Fish s continued, annual practice of feeding elk throughout the winter at 22 state-operated sites. The agency has defended the practice as a way to keep populations high for hunters. But Kelsey Yarzab - associate organizer with the Sierra Club Wyoming Chapter - said it s short sighted to continue luring elk to potentially catastrophic super-spreader sites. .
Opponents of a plan to allow hunters to kill more black bears in New Mexico over the next four years say escalating climate-change threats faced by wildlife are not being considered. The state s Department of Game and Fish took public comments on the proposal last week. Mary Katherine Ray, wildlife chair for the Rio Grande Chapter of the Sierra Club, said even though the increased number of bear kills is small, none of the density studies have been peer-approved or published. .