Don’t kill wolves preying on livestock Reducing predation on livestock and supporting farmers and ranchers is a shared goal with the agriculture community. Yet when wolves are trapped and snared as a means of protecting livestock they are only put in worse off conditions — those that will affect the overall wolf pack. Killing wolves to prevent them …
Keep wolves on endangered species list
EDITOR: Congress should not be overriding the federal courts and cherry-picking which place to add or remove from the federal list of endangered species, and that’s exactly what Sen. Ron Johnson and Rep. Reid Ribble are urging with their efforts to remove federal protections for wolves (“Gray wolf is not endangered in Wisconsin,” Feb. 2). Last year, when Johnson attempted …
Ontario should stop scapegoating wolves
Ontario should stop scapegoating wolves A government plan to weaken regulations for hunting wolves and coyotes would do little for the moose populations it’s meant to protect! A canine predator that travels in packs in remote areas of North America is called a wolf. Most people know this, yet by all accounts the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry …
Pack power | The Economist
The wolves of Yellowstone provide some surprising survival lessons LIKE people, wolves have found that there are benefits to be had living in a group. Together they can more effectively take down large prey, raise families and defend their territory. The received wisdom is that there are also costs to group living, not least a greater risk of death from …