This example Of a Sanctuary in Kentucky is exactly the Vision that your Page owner is working on getting put together…. It will be place for animals that are at a “dead end.” “It will be a place for these animals to feel safe.” NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. — Wild wolves have not lived in Central Kentucky for more than 100 years, but the howls …
Quantifying Wildness; Tracking Wolves and Elk in the Rockies | Cristina Eisenberg
Twenty years ago, I was a stay-at-home Montana mom living in a place where the large carnivore population (wolves, bears, cougars) outnumbered the human population. Parenting our daughters here required learning new life skills–such as wildlife tracking. Before I could send our kids out to play, I’d go tracking in our yard and woods to see who’d been around. If …
Smart Collars Deployed to Study Wolves’ Ecology
It’s no longer enough just to know where an animal is and where it has been wandering. In 2016, we’re now looking at animal health and fitness too, in order to aid conservation efforts. Scientists at the University of California at Santa Cruz have crafted higher-tech collars, which beyond simply GPS, track metabolic costs, the when and how animals are …
Groups want federal agency to monitor wolves
Five conservation groups on Tuesday asked the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to extend its oversight of wolves in Montana and Idaho that is set to expire in May. The agency removed the two states’ gray wolf populations from the Endangered Species List in 2011 after finding they were sufficiently recovered. The delisting order required the Fish and Wildlife Service …