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  • Of Wolves and Trophic Cascades: On the Costs and Benefits of Wolves (Updated 5 Sept.)

    Jeremy Bruskotter

    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…

  • Imbalance in media reports on China Mountain wind farm delay

    Ralph Maughan

    No conservation spokespersons quoted- Yesterday the big news in Idaho and northern Nevada was the 2-year delay and perhaps the demise of the proposed giant wind farm on top of Browns Bench/China Mountain on the Idaho/Nevada border (mostly BLM public land). There is much to be said on all sides of the issue. Today we…

  • Inspiring Article on Wolves in “O,” Oprah Magazine

    Ralph Maughan

    The Kind of Article We Used To See About Personal Courage and Commitment- Oprah Magazine, O, is running a lengthy and well written article about wolves in NW Wyoming. These are the Wyoming wolves that do not live in the protected, though relatively small, confines of Yellowstone National Park.  It is a story about one…

  • Media stories about wolves have become more negative

    Ralph Maughan

    JB’s research shows wolf stories are most negative in places where they are just beginning to colonize- Our own JB (Jeremy T. Bruskotter) and colleagues have just had their article “Attitudes Toward Wolves in the United States and Canada: A Content Analysis of the Print News Media, 1999-2008” published in the refereed Journal, Human Dimensions…

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