EDITOR: Congress should not be overriding the federal courts and cherry-picking which place to add or remove from the federal list of endangered species, and that’s exactly what Sen. Ron Johnson and Rep. Reid Ribble are urging with their efforts to remove federal protections for wolves (“Gray wolf is not endangered in Wisconsin,” Feb. 2). Last year, when Johnson attempted …
Livestock and Wolves: A Guide to Nonlethal Tools and Methods to Reduce Conflicts – Rural America
For hundreds of years wolves that pose a threat to livestock or property have been killed. As the United States expanded west, efforts to eradicate the species from the North American continent were institutionalized. They worked. By the late 1950s, the native gray wolf was all but extinct in the lower 48 with the exception of a small population in northern …
Survey: Mexican wolf population drops in 2015 – Grand Canyon News – Grand Canyon, Arizona
Survey: Mexican wolf population drops in 2015 Population declines between 2014 to 2015, U.S. Fish and Wildlife say strategy still viable…. PHOENIX – The Mexican wolf Interagency Field Team completed the annual year-end population survey, documenting a minimum of 97 Mexican wolves in the wild in Arizona and New Mexico at the end of 2015. At the end of 2014, …
Ontario should stop scapegoating wolves
Ontario should stop scapegoating wolves A government plan to weaken regulations for hunting wolves and coyotes would do little for the moose populations it’s meant to protect! A canine predator that travels in packs in remote areas of North America is called a wolf. Most people know this, yet by all accounts the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry …