Entries by Carissa Winter

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2023 winner of Dr. L. David Mech Fellowship announced

For immediate release Contact: Krista Woerheide Email: krista@wolf.org Phone: (218) 504-5173 Lucas Paschal will work with Voyageurs Wolf Project upon graduation from college The winner of the 2023 Dr. L. David Mech Fellowship is Lucas Paschal, a student at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. The fellowship, awarded by the International Wolf Center, comes with […]

Coyotes don’t resemble wolves enough to be protected, wildlife service says

From kunm.org: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Monday that coyotes will not be listed as endangered due to looking similar to the endangered Mexican wolf. Conservation groups in December filed a petition to protect coyotes within the Mexican Wolf Experimental Population Area. They argued wolves are killed at “high levels” when mistaken for the more […]

Minnesota Ranked Among the Best States for Camping

From krforadio.com: The bean counters at Love Lawn have poured over the data and crunched the numbers to determine the best states for camping in America — and Minnesota is among the best! Seriously, Minnesota is home to 75 state parks and recreation areas, Superior National Forest, Voyageurs National Park, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, and countless other county, […]

Rare Footage of the World’s Only Wild Red Wolves Captured in North Carolina

From Newsweek: A rare red wolf has been caught on a trail-cam in North Carolina’s Alligator River Wildlife Refuge. The wolf is one of the world’s most endangered carnivores, and fewer than 17 adults are thought to exist in the wild today. “People have killed them for generations,” Will Harlan, Southeast director for the Center […]

Two gray wolves captured and collared in Northern California

From the Los Angeles Times: Two members of California’s small but rebounding gray wolf population have been located and given tracking collars, bolstering the state’s conservation efforts, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife announced Friday. The agency says they located and captured the two wolves on March 17 in Siskiyou County through “intermittent signals” […]

The Myth of the Alpha Wolf

From the newyorker.com In 1958, as part of a research project on wolves, David Mech, a graduate student in wildlife ecology at Purdue, was flying over Isle Royale National Park, on Lake Superior. From above, he saw a wolf pack capture and kill a moose. This was rare. More than nine times out of ten, […]