Category Archives: Editorials

Editorials published by prominent experts in the field.

Editorial: Red wolf debacle shows US Fish and Wildlife Service missing spine

The meme spreading around social media this week of President Barack Obama defiantly standing on a doorstep while holding a bald eagle is pretty awesome, but for those of us in the wildlife conservation world, it is also rather ironic, given the way the Obama administration has been retreating from endangered species conservation in recent years. Continue reading →

Editorial: Game board unfairly takes aim at gray wolf protector

Playing tit for tat with an endangered species is not only unproductive; it’s petty. Yet that appears to be what the New Mexico Game Commission did last week when it declined to renew a permit that had been in place for 17 years allowing Ted Turner’s Ladder Ranch in the Gila mountains to assist the federal Mexican gray wolf recovery program. Continue reading →

Let the experts make decisions regarding Wisconsin’s gray wolves

I borrowed the headline chosen by Reid Ribble for his editorial which appeared on the conservative-leaning Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinal. Continue reading →

Editorial: To protect wolves’ future is to protect our future

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — My family lives in Mexican gray wolf country along the banks of the upper Gila River in the Cliff-Gila Valley, three miles from the southern edge of the Gila Wilderness in southwestern New Mexico. We live simply, on a small milk-goat farm, growing most of our own food and selling, what we can, to our neighbors. Continue reading →

Blog: Wolf and hound fights bound to be brutal

Black bears should no longer feel solely terrorized and persecuted by hound hunters in training activities; the gray wolf has now joined their ranks. Continue reading →

Hard work remains to keep California’s wolves safe

The remarkable chain of events that set the stage for gray wolves to gain California Endangered Species Act protections last week seemed, at times, more cinematic than real. Continue reading →

Editorial: Run! Run! It’s huge wolves from Canada!

A tongue in cheek look at the exaggerations revolving around the wolf issue. Continue reading →

Is the Wolf a Real American Hero?

For a field biologist stuck in the city, the wildlife dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History are among New York’s best offerings. One recent Saturday, I paused by the display for elk, an animal I study. Like all the dioramas, this one is a great tribute. Continue reading →

Editorial: Wolf extermination in Wisconsin

It is well worth reading the editorial and this is the letter in response – July 7 editorial, “Making War on Wolves.” Continue reading →

HOWLColorado response to the proposed wolf delisting

The Obama administration has put forth a proposal which would delist wolves in the lower 48 states – a move driven by politics and not science and certainly too soon. Continue reading →

Editorial: After Years of Progress, a Setback in Saving the Wolf

The 1973 Endangered Species Act provides federal protection — breathing space, in a very real sense — to plants and animals threatened with extinction. Had this task been left to the states alone, almost none of the species that have returned to health would have done so.
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Editorial: The Fall, Rise & Management of Wolves in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming

This editorial takes the controversial issue and highlights issues the author sees on both sides. Continue reading →

Hunter Editorial: Mexican Gray Wolf reintroduction plan “needs balance”

We always feel our visitors should know what the special interests opposed to wolf reintroduction are saying – towards that effort, here’s an editorial posted on azcentral.com in response to an article which appeared in the Arizona Republic newspaper. Continue reading →

Call of the wild – The Wolf Returns

IN AUGUST 2011 Desiree Versteeg, a Dutch mortuarist, was driving home in the suburbs of Arnhem in the eastern Netherlands when she saw an animal in the road. “At first I thought it was a dog. Then I thought it was a fox. Then—I couldn’t believe my eyes—I saw it was a wolf.” She got out of the car to take a picture. “I was seven or eight metres away from him. He couldn’t get away because a fence was blocking his path. He turned and stared at me. That was a frightening moment.” Both she and the wolf fled. Continue reading →

Editorial: Wolf hunting in Wisconsin is not fair game

The Barbarians are at our door and they look a lot like a 14-year-old girl with a cute smile who loves country music and plays clarinet in the school band. Continue reading →

Gray Wolves a Step Closer to a Safe Return in California

Last week the California Fish and Game Commission voted to make the gray wolf a candidate for protection under the California Endangered Species Act, a decision that will provide immediate protection to the state’s lone wolf OR-7, while a one-year status review is completed. Continue reading →

Editorial: Why Minnesota wolf hunt?

Why a wolf hunt? It’s not because the wolf population is exploding and we need to “control” the wolves. No, the wolf population has remained stable, unchanged, for over 10 years, even while protected. Continue reading →

Editorial: Open season on wolves

In Montana and Idaho in 2009, gray wolves were prematurely removed from the federal endangered species list. The decision left these magnificent predators subject to state management plans that were crafted to satisfy hunters and ranchers rather than to protect wolves. Continue reading →

Seasons of the wolf

Though wolves are at the top of their food chain, their survival from Day 1 is a life-and-death struggle — as it is for all wildlife. Here’s a snapshot of their lives: Continue reading →

Wolves in the wild: Room for livestock, too?

Len McIrvin, one of the owners of Diamond M Ranch, says, “Wolves have never been compatible with raising livestock.” Continue reading →

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