Wolves
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Back in 2000, I wrote a piece for California Wild about the prospects for wolf restoration in the state. At that time, there had not been any wolves reported in the Golden State in decades. Nevertheless, I felt the state could easily support a wolf populaiton. In my article, I pretended that it was 2020…
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Well, I will add one to the collections that Norman Bishop has put out about wolves and humans. This one is not quite so old. This one was from a bit before delisting, from 2006. For about 7 years, I lived on the closest piece of private land to the south east corner of Yellowstone…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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I previously wrote a piece about wolves killed by Gardiner, Montana. As I noted in my original post I was not able to independently confirm the details and have since learned more about the situation. Here’s the latest information I have been provided. Bison at Beatty Gulch just north of Yellowstone NP border. Photo George…
