ALBUQUERQUE — More than a dozen endangered Mexican gray wolves were killed in 2016, including two at the hands of wildlife officials who were capturing and collaring the animals as part of an annual survey of the struggling population. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service confirmed this week that 14 wolf deaths were documented last year, marking the most in any …
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 …
Proposal would reauthorize wolf management on Alaskas lower peninsula
By ELIZABETH EARL Peninsula Clarion The Board of Game plans to debate a proposal at its Bethel meeting that would reauthorize a program allowing the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to eliminate all the wolves on a part of the lower Kenai Peninsula. The area in question, the Predation Control Area of Unit 15C, consists of all lands within …