© Sierra Club When humans decimated wolf populations, the idea was that farmers would no longer lose sheep and other livestock to the dog-like predators. But that horribly backfired, a new study has recently found. Looking at 25 years of data, a group of researchers from Washington State University found that more livestock died when wolves were getting culled. It …
Wolf tracks confirmed in new area in northeast Oregon
Oregon’s wolves continue the expansion of their range with two sets of tracks confirmed on Monday, Dec. 15, by Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife biologists in the Umatilla National Forest south of Ukiah. The department said that irregular reports of wolves had come in during the past year in the northern part of the Desolation Game Management Unit in Grant …
Southeast Alaska wolves: Subspecies or not? | KRBD
An article published last month in the Journal of Heredity concludes that DNA evidence does not support listing Southeast Alaska wolves as a distinct sub-species for protection under the Endangered Species Act. However, others say the same research supports that distinction 00:00 00:00 The research was funded by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and compared DNA of wolves, …
Researchers Kill 890 Wolves to Learn About Them: There’s Something Very Wrong | Marc Bekoff
Researchers are just great arent they????? I’ve written a number of essays that have centered on the question, “Should animals be killed in the name of, or under the guise of, conservation?” The basic foundation of the rapidly growing field of compassionate conservation,  “First do no harm,” maintains that the lives of individual animals matter and that killing in the name of …