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  • North American Model of Wildlife Conservation And Wolves

    George Wuerthner

    WOLF KILLING MAKES MOCKERY OF NORTH AMERICAN MODEL OF WILDLIFE CONSERVATION Many state wildlife agencies and organizations promote the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation (NAMWC) as a guiding philosophy for management.  There are seven major themes to the model. Despite the promotion of NAMWC, there are many apparent contradictions between the ideal and how…

  • Great photos of grizzly, wolves, and others on bison carcass in YNP

    Ralph Maughan

    The solidity of nature, even of creatures competing to eat the raw meat of the dead bison, is edifying. It brings a feeling of hopefulness at a time when humans claw at each other over political abstractions in a confused, but hostile, unnatural way, to detriment of all of us. There is currently a debate…

  • Study: until the 20th century, wolves inhabited much of California

    Ralph Maughan

    Study results are relevant to decision whether to put wolves under the state’s ESA- San Francisco. There are those who say the gray wolf had just a marginal presence in California before it was killed off in the 1920s. However, the Sonoma State University Anthropological Studies Center has now shown there was a widespread presence of…

  • Should the declining inbred wolves of Isle Royale N.P. be augmented?

    Ralph Maughan

    Should there be genetic rescue (outside wolves brought in)- For many years the wolves and moose of Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior have shown that wolves do not wipe out their prey. When wolves become abundant enough that the disappearance of prey seems probable, the wolves die back. On the other hand, when…

  • Yellowstone Wolf Update, September 2013

    Kathie Lynch

    Kathie Lynch’s Yellowstone wolf report Slow wolf watching in the smoky air is giving way to excitement as crisp and clean autumn arrives- By Kathie Lynch, Copyright 2013 Yellowstone National Park. Crisp mornings, afternoon thunderstorms, smoky skies, and scarce wolf sightings all tell you that fall is right around the corner in Yellowstone National Park. As…

  • So whatever happened to wolf OR-7

    Ralph Maughan

    Wolf that went to California seems to have new home- After many stories about Oregon wolf 7 (OR-7) in the Golden State, last spring he finally returned to Oregon . . . though not to his faraway birthplace in NE Oregon. We haven’t heard about him for some time now, but his location has stabilized…

  • Comment period extended on gray wolf delisting, Mexican wolf protection and expansion

    Ralph Maughan

    After many many complaints, comment period will run until Oct. 28- Today the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today extended the public comment period until October 28 on two proposed rules to remove the gray wolf (Canis lupus) from the List of Threatened and Endangered Species, while maintaining protection and expanding recovery efforts for the…

  • Survey reports AZ, NM residents strongly support Mexican wolf recovery

    Ralph Maughan

    Survey says elite public opinion on wolves in Southwest may differ greatly from average citizen’s- According to the results of a survey released by Defenders of Wildlife (see their news release below), Arizona and New Mexico citizens strongly support recovery of the Mexican wolf.  300 randomly selected registered voters in each state were interviewed by…

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