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I recently visited Yellowstone National Park and, while there, my father and I used a friend’s place as a base camp in Gardiner, Montana. From there we would drive about 10 miles to the Park where we watched wildlife, took photographs, and just enjoyed some of the solitude that Yellowstone provides during this part of [...]
Continue Reading →Can it dispell some ridiculous myths? ……Please?
OR7, aka Journey, the wolf who travelled from northeast Oregon into northern California and now back to southern Oregon, isn’t unique among his species but for one thing, he is still alive. After traveling long distance with a lot of people following his GPS collar from their computers and [...]
Continue Reading →In January of 2012 the gray wolves in Michigan lost their federal protection under the Endangered Species Act. Eleven months later, late in Dec. 2012, a bill was introduced by R-Sen. Tom Casperson of Escanaba that would designate wolves as a game species. The bill was passed and Gov. Rick Snyder signed the bill.
Designating [...]
Continue Reading →Rare Fishers Heavily Impacted
A response to a state public records request, submitted by Western Watersheds Project to the Idaho Fish and Game Department, shows widespread capture and mortality of non-target species related to wolf trapping and snaring in Idaho during the 2011/2012 trapping and snaring season. For the last two years, since wolves in the Northern [...]
Continue Reading →Loss of collared wolves has had a significant effect on research of wolves in Yellowstone National Park
According to a news article in the Jackson Hole News & Guide, the population of wolves in Yellowstone National Park has dropped by about 20-28% from the 2011 end-of-the-year estimate of 98 wolves.
Dan Stahler, a wildlife biologist [...]
Continue Reading →I came across a blog posting this morning that I thought the readers of The Wildlife News would be interested in. Bob Ferris of Cascadia Wildlands has written a great and fascinating piece about some of the more recognizable anti-wolf figures in the Northern Rockies. Some, probably most, of these people have tried to post [...]
Continue Reading →The Wildlife News blog gets a disproportionate amount of comments when wolf related topics appear on a thread compared to other stories. Clearly, this illustrates society’s polarization with the wolf whereby some people love them, while others hate them – or at least seemingly so. However, for those that love them – and there are [...]
Continue Reading →Someone is using the artificial sweetener, xylitol, to presumably poison wolves in the Wood River Valley. It is unclear whether any wolves or other canines have been poisoned but one dog has died and another has been sickened by eating xylitol laced meatballs placed in the Lake Creek area.
A picture online shows [...]
Continue Reading →Today, several groups filed a notice of intent (NOI) to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) over its decision to delist wolves in Wyoming. Delisting comes after USFWS accepted the minor changes made to the Wyoming wolf management plan which allows wolves to be killed by anyone, for any reason, [...]
Continue Reading →The reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park turned the nation’s most prominent national park into a laboratory of sorts, whereby scientists could document and measure the effect of wolves on a variety of other species. Since their return, dozens of studies have been published purporting to show some effect of wolves on some other [...]
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