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State experts eye westward wolf migration | Snovalley Local News | eastofseattle.news

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For the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife, the local ecosystem is a fragile balance of prey and predator. A single factor could change all of that in the next few years, an expert says. Wolf management has long since been a contentious topic for farmers, hunters and environmentalists, and while most wolves reside in the states of Idaho, …

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Transcending the Big Bad Wolf 

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  This is a guest post from Anthony J. Giordano, M.S., Ph.D.. He is the Founder and Executive Director of SPECIES: Society for the Preservation of Endangered Carnivores & their International Ecological Study. In the history of western civilization, no animal has been as systematically vilified as the wolf. Neither spider nor snake, bat nor rat, nor shark of any kind, …

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Petition Drive Launched to Stop Wolf Killings Near Yellowstone / Public News Service

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January 28, 2016 WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont. – Protected gray wolves from Yellowstone National Park are being trapped or shot once they step over the border into Montana and Idaho, so wildlife groups have launched a petition to stop it. The nonprofit Endangered Species Coalition started an online petition Wednesday calling on wildlife officials in those states to create a no-kill …