The effects of wolves on livestock are also overblown Data from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and other parts of the country where wolves live show that they are responsible for a very small amount of killing—between 0.1 and 0.6 percent of all livestock deaths in these areas. A 2014 Washington State University study, conducted over a 25-year period, found that indiscriminate …
Let’s Ditch the ‘Big, Bad Wolf’ Cliché
The story of a wolf suckling the abandoned brothers Romulus and Remus at the creation of Rome may be allegorical, but wolves did forever change the human story. Their domestication stands alongside language, fire, and plant cultivation as one of the major innovations that most altered the fortunes of humanity. “It’s hard to see how early herders would have …
Agency officials cited complaints the predators were eating too many elk wanted by hunters and outfitters.
How is it humanly possible for people in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming to say that wolves kill too many elk, when in fact they have all three had record years for the last several years…. BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana’s wildlife commissioners have rejected a proposed increase in the number of gray wolves that can be killed in an area …
New Study Claims Culling of Large Carnivores (Wolves, Bears) Spurs Poaching – Yellowstone Insider
A new ecology study has posited a strong link between sanctioned hunting and poaching ofendangered/threatened large carnivores. Written by Professors Guillaume Chapron (Grimsö Wildlife Research Station, Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Riddarhyttan, Sweden) and Adrian Treves (Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin, 30A Science Hall, 550 North Park Street, Madison, WI, USA) and published by …