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Fall 2010, Issue 19 |
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con’t– Pine Bark Beetle |
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New Bunk House rates for 2011 : $115 per night, $575 per week (6 nights) April-December $60 per night, January through March |
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A special thanks for your pictures...here are a few! |
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forests we have been accustomed to will fade now in our lifetime bringing in a minority specie of trees and eventually a new generation of healthy pine. Some wildlife will thrive because of the new environment, and a couple of species may encounter trouble, but the beauty is still unsurpassed in this diverse landscape of the Wind River Range and Absaroka Range of western Wyoming. Scott If anybody is interested in a special guided trip to these parts of Wyoming in the Washakie Wilderness, we would love to show you the evolving diversity of this forest and mountain range. FYI: The Popo Agie Wilderness, with which we primarily operate in and this part of the Wind River Range, has currently not seen large scale beetle kill infestations Note: There are hundreds of informative and professional articles on this subject. We wanted to give you our general overview and observations from 25 years of outfitting. One great source of informative articles and blogs can be found at WyoFile.com
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endangered and threatened species. However, this beetle infestation turn of events, I believe, should warrant a careful observation of the grizzly bear food source and we should wait and see if the bears adapt to the changing environment before we de-list them. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll be the first to tell you they are thriving right now and we have no problem maintaining population objectives through harvest hunting, but let’s wait and see if how they adapt and if, in particular, if the sows produce healthy cubs. It may very well be, without adequate protein, grizzly bear population objectives could and should be lowered. So, the dying traditional lodgepole and whitebark pine |
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“...it’s a native bug, and infestations have been going on for thousands of years” |