Wolves

  • Idaho “Wolf Control Board” Passes the House.

    Ken Cole

    Today the Idaho House held its final hearing on Governor Otter’s “Wolf Control Board” bill HB470 which establishes a board which would be composed solely of people appointed by the Governor that would oversee wolf control in Idaho. The board would be funded using $2 million in general funds, $110,000 from the livestock industry, and $110,000…

  • Public Hearing on Governor Otter’s “Wolf Control Board” on Monday. Updated

    Ken Cole

    The proponents’ expressed intent is for the Wolf Control Board to reduce the Idaho wolf population to 150 wolves. See update at bottom A public hearing is scheduled for Monday at the Idaho State Capitol in Boise on Governor Otter’s “Wolf Control Board” bill HB470 which establishes a board which would composed solely of people appointed by the…

  • The Time to be Bold is Now

    Brett Haverstick

    5 Keys to Reforming Wildlife Management in America- Over the years, I have come to realize that the current wildlife management model in America, at the federal level, and particularly, the state level, is broken. The system is such, in which, politics trumps the best-available science, the special interest-minority overwhelms the democratic-majority and the almighty…

  • Idaho Digs a Deeper Wolf Management Hole

    Ken Cole

    Idaho’s wolf management has opened a lot of eyes in the past month. With the recent coyote and wolf killing contest that killed 21 coyotes and no wolves, the hiring of a trapper by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game to eradicate two packs of wolves in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness…

  • Tomorrow in Wisconsin Dogs get to help hunt wolves

    Ralph Maughan

    Will it be h0 hum or a blood bath? In Wisconsin’s continuing wolf hunt which has felled wolves at a surprisingly rapid pace, now dogs will be added to mix. Wisconsin’s wolf hunt is supposed to end when 251 wolves out of the estimated 800 in the state have been killed. So far about 215 wolves…

  • Department of Interior Puts Peer Review of National Wolf Delisting on Hold

    Ken Cole

    After the California Wolf Center posted a YouTube video of a phone interview with Dr. John Vucetich, who was blacklisted from being part of the peer review because he signed a letter that opposed the nationwide delisting of wolves, the US Fish and Wildlife Service has halted the selection of peer reviewers.  According to E&E…

  • Wolves act to help bighorn sheep near Yellowstone National Park

    Ken Cole

    I recently visited Yellowstone National Park and, while there, my father and I used a friend’s place as a base camp in Gardiner, Montana.  From there we would drive about 10 miles to the Park where we watched wildlife, took photographs, and just enjoyed some of the solitude that Yellowstone provides during this part of…

  • What does the Long Journey of OR7 and Other Wolves Teach Us?

    Ken Cole

    Can it dispell some ridiculous myths? ……Please? OR7, aka Journey, the wolf who travelled from northeast Oregon into northern California and now back to southern Oregon, isn’t unique among his species but for one thing, he is still alive.  After traveling long distance with a lot of people following his GPS collar from their computers and…

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Edward Abbey

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