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Jeremy Bruskotter

  • Researchers weigh in on wolf management in Michigan

    Jeremy Bruskotter

    Researchers from Michigan State University and Michigan Technological University published a report this week detailing the results of a 2010 telephone survey of Michigan residents. In total, the study contacted 973 residents (95% confidence level +/- 3.2% margin of error). Eighty-two percent of residents agreed that wolves have value; only 16% disagreed with the statement,…

  • How should animals die? A topic worthy of reasoned debate

    Jeremy Bruskotter

    In reading some of the comments posted in response to stories run on The Wildlife News this week, I was interested to see a few very heated exchanges concerning humans’ role in determining how animals die.  These comments reminded me of a presentation I saw this past November at the annual meeting of the Wildlife…

  • Trends in Per Capita Wolf Depredations and Control in the Northern Rocky Mountains

    Jeremy Bruskotter

    Several recent discussions on The Wildlife News have focused on trends in wolf depredations (i.e. killing of domestic animals), and pondered what they mean for the future of wolves’ management.  The notion that per capita depredations (i.e. depredations per wolf) should increase with time is implicit in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) 2009…

  • The Federal Status of Wolves in the Midwest and the East: Conflict on the Horizon?

    Jeremy Bruskotter

    In May of this year, the US Fish and Wildlife Service proposed creating a Distinct Population Segment (or “DPS”) of wolves in the Great Lakes Region, and removing wolves in this DPS from federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections (76 Fed. Reg 26086).  The “delisting” of wolves in the Great Lakes was recently discussed in…

  • Conserving Carnivores Under State Management: Wolves as a Public Trust Resource

    Jeremy Bruskotter

    In the most recent issue of the journal, Science my colleagues and I argue that the wildlife trust doctrine (a branch of the broader public trust doctrine) may provide a legal means for interested citizens to compel states to conserve controversial species such as wolves. We argue that this common law doctrine fills the gap…

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