Norman Bishop

  • Wolf Stories – Part 5 The Christmas Wolf

    Norman Bishop

    Wolves are often portrayed as a threat to humans, particularly little girls.  Here is a true story that brings that portrayal into question. THE CHRISTMAS WOLF by Tessie Lutz It was Christmas Eve, 1923, when the incident took place. It was back on our farm in Orange, Pennsylvania. I was a 7-year-old girl then. “We…

  • Wolf Stories – Part 4

    Norman Bishop

    Fears for the safety of our children in wolf country may be put in perspective by this true story. From the Duluth News-Tribune, October 4, 1906 CHILD FOUND IN WOLF’S DEN Lost Infant playing With Cubs When Discovered by Searchers A. M. – a commercial traveler from St. Cloud, was in the city yesterday coming…

  • Wolf Stories – Part 3

    Norman Bishop

    What happened when two Cheyenne women and their daughters who survived the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864, cold and starving, encountered a wolf? The Wolf Helper  Cheyenne This is a Cheyenne “story of mystery” its meaning and power arising from its setting in the horrifying historical episode of the Sand Creek massacre. Some have called…

  • Wolf Stories – Part 2

    Norman Bishop

    Here are wolf stories and insights from Gordon Haber, who studied Alaskan wolves from 1966 until his death in a plane crash in 2009.  Marybeth Holleman wrote a book based on his notes. On pages 17-18 of his and Marybeth Holleman’s 2013 book, Among Wolves, based on 43 years of field studies, we are introduced…

  • Wolf Stories – Part 1

    Norman Bishop

    By great good luck, I was assigned to Yellowstone National Park as a resource management specialist in March of 1980, at the same time the first Northern Rocky Mountain Wolf Recovery Plan was released.  By 1987, when the second Plan was signed, I was in full swing giving talks in the region about the proposal…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

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