Fear and Misinformation Fuel Government Killings of Wolves Tuesday, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder signed a bill allowing wolves to be hunted if they are removed from the federal endangered species list For centuries, wolves have been vilified as dangerous predators, and this notion has supported their culling and decimation around the world. Charles Darwin predictedthe extinction of the Falkland Islands …
Wolves have value to humans, to environment
The SAD PART, is that the facts that Wolf haters spew… are nothing more than false most of the time….. Facts don’t matter to those who detest the wolf. They embellish stories, make false claims and find any excuse to justify their hatred. In his letter published Dec. 28, Ron Scott states wolves play “no good part in our society” he …
Wolves and moose make music together on Isle Royale
On Isle Royale a group of scientists have studied the wolves, the moose and the climate for 58 years. Did you know you can dance to their findings? This project, which took months to produce, is now available online at www.isleroyalewolf.org/sonification. It’s an Internet version of an art project by students at Michigan Tech. Back in 2014, those students decided to …
Sonifying the wolves and moose of Isle Royale: transforming data into music
This is a Must Go Listen too 😉 An example of a rare and special art form called data-driven music or sonification. Imagine an orchestra of instruments. In this orchestra, the musicians playing the instruments are not human. Rather the instruments are played by data – data that has been collected from nature. In this particular case, the music is …