This editorial takes the controversial issue and highlights issues the author sees on both sides. Continue reading
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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
Forty Years In Wolves’ Clothing
Between 1972 and 1975, some very cool stuff happened. First, Skiers’ Gazette was reborn as the Mountain Gazette. The following year, Rick Nixon signed into law the Endangered Species Act, and, in 1974 wolves in the Lower 48 were the first species declared endangered under this bright and shiny new law. Continue reading
Editorial: Endangered wolf needs protection instead of bullets
For eons, gray wolves roamed the northern stretches of the United States. When Europeans settled here, they systematically hunted them down until the species was perilously close to extinction. Like the grizzly bear that adorns our state flag, gray wolves were erased from every corner of California. Continue reading
Idaho Wolf Management Off the Rails
By Idaho standards, it was big news this week when Idaho Gov. Butch Otter approved the state’s first-ever felony animal cruelty law for pets and livestock, leaving the Dakotas as the only states without similar laws. Continue reading
Editorial: Why do we hate the original dog?
Dogs as a species are estimated to be approximately 15,000 to 20,000 years old.
Blog: A Wolf-Moose Standoff at Isle Royale
John Vucetich, a wildlife ecologist from Michigan Technological University, leads the wolf-moose Winter Study at Isle Royale National Park and writes a blog for New York Times. Continue reading
Blog: Preparing to Live With Wolves
John Vucetich, a wildlife ecologist from Michigan Technological University, leads the wolf-moose Winter Study at Isle Royale National Park.
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Editorial: The new war on wolves
J. William Gibson wrote the following Editorial which appeared in the LA Times. Continue reading
Editorial: Washington’s wolf-management plan only a starting point
I’ve been hiking through Washington’s wilderness for 40 years, but had never heard this sound before. It was a primal moan that sent shivers down my spine: a long, low chorus of wolves. Continue reading
161 wolves are dead and the season is still young
It’s been a little while since I last updated the site. Sure, there have been plenty of stories I saw that I could post, but it all paled in comparison to the massacre happening just north of Colorado.
Oregon’s wolf population: Agency puts politics ahead of conservation
[large thumbnail url="oregons-wolf-population-agency-puts-politics-ahead-of-conservation" filename="editorial" year="2011" month="10" day="03"] [thumbnail icon url="oregons-wolf-population-agency-puts-politics-ahead-of-conservation" filename="news" year="2011" month="10" day="03"] In The Oregonian’s Sept. 27 editorial “Howls aside, stick to the wolf plan,” the editors supported the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s decision to kill two of the four surviving wolves of the Imnaha Pack, arguing that if no one is happy, it must be the right call.
New York Times Editorial: Way of the Wolf in Wyoming
[large thumbnail url="new-york-times-editorial-way-of-the-wolf-in-wyoming" filename="news" year="2011" month="09" day="23"] [thumbnail icon url="new-york-times-editorial-way-of-the-wolf-in-wyoming" filename="news" year="2011" month="09" day="23"] Wolves remain on the endangered species list in one state: Wyoming. That protection is about to go away after Interior Secretary Ken Salazar cut a bad deal with Wyoming’s governor, Matt Mead, to turn wolf management over to the state.
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