Has Curt Mattson District Supervisor of USDA Wildlife Services not learned enough from killing an Idaho Families Pet Casey, amongst many many other pets, and almost killing their Son Canyon and his Father that almost gave Casey CPR??? What will it take to get these Government Organizations to realize that Cyanide can not ask if your a Pet or a …
LONG AWAITED CRITICALLY ENDANGERED MEXICAN GRAY WOLF COUNT OF 2017
Aerial operations by USFWS Mexican Wolf Interagency Field Team completed the annual year-end population survey in Arizona and New Mexico at the end of 2017, concluding that there are only 114 Mexican Gray wolves left in the wild. This number includes 26 pups that survived to the end of 2017, only one more over the estimated 113 wild wolves in 2016. …
Letter to the Editor: Wolves belong in Colorado
Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation CEO David Allens’s remarks on wolves, “What pro-wolf introduction factions are telling you and what they are not,” are off the mark (Herald, Feb. 13). The trophic cascade effects of wolves and other keystone species like cougars have been convincingly demonstrated in Yellowstone and Zion National Parks. The scientific discussion around trophic cascades involves subtleties like …
Humans need managing, not wolves
It is good to see someone else actually sees RMEF for the hideous Organization they are. It is disappointing that the CEO of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation (Herald, Feb. 13) so disparages the return of the wolf to everywhere the elk are. Perhaps he doesn’t realize that elk and wolves evolved together for millenia. That the very majesty and …