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  • 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…

  • Ed Bangs to retire

    Ralph Maughan

    Bangs oversaw the Northern Rockies wolf restoration program for 23 years- Montana’s ‘wolf man’. By Eve Bryon. Helena Independent Record. 23 years dealing with conservationists, ranchers, scientists, nuts, cranks, and lying politicians.  Overall, I think he did a good job, especially considering the context. He kept a cool head, which was simply amazing given the…

  • A different kind of wolf book: Niemeyer's "Wolfer" has been published

    Ralph Maughan

    A real page-turner is available now just before the holidays- A lot of folks have waited for the publication of Carter Niemeyer’s autobiograpy, Wolfer. It is now available from a couple sources, but Amazon.com will get it to you before Christmas. I’ve checked that out. It is also available at Amazon as a download for…

  • Controversial wolf hunt over, Sweden now wants to import wolves

    Ralph Maughan

    Purpose of import is not due to excessive wolf mortality during the hunt. It is lack of genetic diversity- Sweden wants to import 20 genetically diverse wolves over the next five years.  Although the Swedish Parliament wants to limit the wolf population to about 200 wolves, and so had their first wolf hunt this year,…

  • More on the problems with the recovery of the Mexican wolf

    Ralph Maughan

    Benjamin Tuggle, the Southwest regional director for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service gets a letter from Jon Marvel- An article and a link to Marvel’s full letter is in a post on Demarcated Landscapes. This is a good illustration why cowpersons and cow politicians don’t like Marvel . . . . he tells Tuggle…

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Edward Abbey

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

Jim Fowler

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Raveena Tandon

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