Except for the uninterested, and there a quite a few of them, the 21-year old controversy over wolf restoration in the West is not really about wolves. Unfortunately instead, it has become another “values” contest. To some degree it has also become another red versus blue dispute. When wolves were first reintroduced in 1995, with a second batch in 1996, …
Montana proposes to triple wolf harvest near Yellowstone
Montana proposes to triple wolf harvest near Yellowstone Montana officials want to triple the number of gray wolves hunters and trappers can kill in an area bordering Yellowstone National Park, citing complaints the predators are eating too many elk wanted by hunters and outfitters. The potential change marks the latest turn in a dispute that kicked off when endangered species …
So-Called Legal culls cause more wolves to be killed by POACHERS
Wolves are still hated—and more are poached It’s counterintuitive, but experts have long argued that one of the best ways to conserve carnivores, such as gray wolves, is to kill them in government-sanctioned culls. Keeping the predators in check is supposed to help persuade carnivore-haters to become more tolerant and deter poaching. But a new study of gray wolf culling …
Study suggests wolf harvest reduces park sightings
Hunting wolves outside Yellowstone and Denali national parks reduces the opportunity for tourists to see a wolf, a recent study suggests. “I was really surprised,” said Laura Prugh, assistant professor of Quantitative Wildlife Sciences at the University of Washington and co-author of the study. “I didn’t think that we were going to find an effect on sightability because the number …