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Hunters throw dogs to the wolves

In Protect The Wolves, Protect Wisconsin Wolves, Wisconsin by Lynda1 Comment

Hunters in WI throwing their dogs to the wolves. Again, & again… It’s happening again; five hunting dogs were injured, and one Plott hound was killed, in dog-wolf encounters and fights after hounds being trained to chase bears ran into the stronger, predatory-by-nature, pack-performing wolves, the WI DNR reports: 7/22/18, two Walker trailing hounds injured in Douglas County, Town of …

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THE REMARKABLE CANIS LUPUS (GRAY WOLF)

In Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin by LyndaLeave a Comment

Posted on June 27, 2018 by Rachel Tilseth …Designed by Mother Nature herself. A wolf walks over to a vacated white-tailed deer bed and gently blows on it. This causes all the particles to flow up into his/hers highly tuned olfactory system (the nose). “Ah ha, says the wolf,” the deer tick’s blood is full of pus from a tooth infection. The deer …

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Congressional Bid To Remove Wisconsin Wolves From Endangered Species List Falls Flat

In Legislation, Wisconsin by Lynda4 Comments

      An effort to remove the Great Lakes gray wolf from the federal endangered species list failed last week when Congress approved an omnibus spending bill.   Late last year language to remove protections for the animal in Wisconsin and the rest of the Western Great Lakes region was included in the House Interior and Environment appropriations bill. …

Coexistence is key!

In Protect The Wolves, Wisconsin by Lynda1 Comment

The USDA releases a death census for the cattle industry every 5 years and tracks how many cattle have died and from what causes. The results are less sensational than one might expect; dust and shipping stress kill three times more cattle than all predators combined. So the last census for the entire U.S was in December of 2015— Cattle …