In his letter to the editor, Earl Stahl trots out Little Red Riding Hood fables about wolves. His arguments hold little credibility. Livestock farmers frequently blame wolves for their losses even when the mortalities come from birthing problems, disease or weather events. A new study from Washington State University, using 25 years of data, found when wolves are persecuted, they …
Maureen Hackett: Recreational wolf hunt was unnecessary, counterproductive | Bemidji Pioneer
Wolves havent even began to recover to their Historic range! This fall 272 wolves were killed in a reckless and cruel recreational wolf hunt in Minnesota. This is third and final year of the wolf hunting and trapping season, which is stopped because of a federal judge who said wolves were not yet recovered as a species after they were …
In response: City people don’t understand wolves | Duluth News Tribune
Sandy Updyke sounds like a SLOB HUNTER!! There have been a few letters and columns in the paper about wolf hunting, wolf trapping and the reinstatement of federal protections for wolves under the Endangered Species Act. To the Humane Society of the U.S. officials who wrote two commentaries published recently by the News Tribune, I would say: Know what you …
Mexican Wolves Finally Get Endangered Species Status | Extinction Countdown, Scientific American Blog Network
North America’s smallest and rarest wolves will finally have the full protection of the Endangered Species Act. Well, almost. Mexican gray wolves (Canis lupus baileyi) nearly went extinct 40 years ago. After decades of hunting and persecution the last five wild members of the subspecies were rounded up in 1973 and placed in an emergency captive breeding program. There they …