Dear Editor: “Would state management endanger wolves?” Three days following the relisting of Great Lakes wolves, one of Wisconsin’s wolf recovery biologists, Richard Thiel, answered, “The jury is out.” The following examples of mismanagement by Wisconsin may have something to do with that: 17 wolf packs gone, 700+ wolves killed in trophy hunts, 170+ killed at the behest of livestock …
Utah insists wolf-coyote confusion won’t be a problem | The Salt Lake Tribune
Utah wildlife managers and state attorneys insist Utah’s controversial coyote bounty program does not conflict with the Endangered Species Act. But at least one other state was forced to change its coyote-culling hunt after too many endangered wolves were killed. Potential crossover between Utah’s free-wheeling coyote hunt and the federal program for protecting animals threatened with extinction became clear last …
Wolf Center – Eye Position
“Don’t look a wolf in their eye!” …How many times have you heard this popular myth? Even some experienced biologists believe this before visiting the Sawtooth or Owyhee Pack. The truth is that wolves use eye position as an important form of communication, both within their pack and toward other animals around them (like us). Gray wolves will look one …
Saving the Large Carnivores | Psychology Today
Preservation of large carnivores is one of the greatest conservation challenges facing the world today. Saving them would indicate a willingness to share the planet and its resources with another large predator, something most humans have seemed unwilling or unable to do. In fact, the most common models for living with large carnivores involve separating them from people either by …