Michigan wolves

  • Michigan Repubs pass anti-wolf resolution directing Congress toward false facts

    Ralph Maughan

    State Senate Resolution claims wolves increasingly endanger people- LANSING, MI. They just can’t give it up. Despite no wild wolf attacks in Michigan or any other state where wolves have been recently restored, politicians who don’t like them insist people are being increasingly threatened as shown by this story from the Michigan State Senate. The Republican…

  • Michigan Natural Resources Commission threw away public comments on wolf hunt

    Ralph Maughan

    Untabulated comments overwhelmingly opposed hunt- More were just tossed away- One of the most consistent characteristics of right wing movements is a distaste for democracy.  From the beginning with Edmund Burke (1729-1797) who invented the word “conservatism,” is the argument that some small elite knows better than the public. Whether based on land ownership or…

  • Researchers weigh in on wolf management in Michigan

    Jeremy Bruskotter

    Researchers from Michigan State University and Michigan Technological University published a report this week detailing the results of a 2010 telephone survey of Michigan residents. In total, the study contacted 973 residents (95% confidence level +/- 3.2% margin of error). Eighty-two percent of residents agreed that wolves have value; only 16% disagreed with the statement,…

  • Michigan "Yooper" wolf poachers show similarities to SSS in ID-WY-MT

    Ralph Maughan

    Increasing illegal wolf killing in Michigan’s UP- Resurgent gray wolves killed, despite protection. AP

  • Little sign of wolves in Lower Michigan

    Ralph Maughan

    Michigan has a fairly large recovered wolf population (over 500 wolves), but essentially all live in the UP, that part of the state which, geographically speaking, is upper Wisconsin. Despite reports of wolves in Lower Michigan, the Michigan DNR finds them so scattered they are stopping intensive monitoring for wolves in that part of the…

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