From StarTribune:
Our point is that the billboard’s message is propaganda and its connection to wildlife management is logically flawed and not supported by the best available science.
The life of a deer fawn is perilous regardless of whether any of their predators are hunted or trapped, and sometimes even if there are no predators around at all. The majority of fawns will die, regardless of the cause. Some say fawns are born with a hoof or two in the grave.
From The Coastland Times:
From VOCM Local News Now:
The Newfoundland and Labrador Outfitters Association is helping with research on the province’s wolf and coyote populations.
For years, researchers have been collecting information on a growing grey wolf population on the island portion of the province. Wildlife officials have been collecting samples to determine whether an animal is a coyote, wolf, or a hybrid.
From Inside Climate News:
In Yellowstone National Park, the reintroduction of the gray wolf in the 1990s has helped reduce an exploding elk population, which in turn helped save plants along streams and rivers, which provide habitat for migrating birds, building materials for beavers, and dam ponds for fish and frogs.
From Nation World News:
The European Commission will review the protection status of the wolf in Europe given the “real danger” posed by the concentration of this animal in some regions of the continent and is considering “making the conditions for this more flexible”. These animals may be depressed In order to make an informed decision, Brussels has decided to expand a consultation launched in April to invite “local communities, scientists and all interested parties…”
From PBS Wisconsin:
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin wildlife officials defended their decision not to set a hard cap on the state’s wolf population in their new management plan in front of a Republican-controlled legislative committee on Sept. 21, saying a firm limit doesn’t reflect the complexities of wolf management.
Randy Johnson, the Department of Natural Resources’ large carnivore specialist, told the state Senate’s sporting heritage committee that a lack of a hard limit gives the agency more flexibility to manage the species, allows local packs to fluctuate and gives the population a better chance at maintaining wolf abundance for years to come.
From Bozeman Daily Chronicle:
When Daniel Stahler started work in Yellowstone National Park in 1997, it wasn’t clear how the ambitious push to restore wolves to their native habitat would go.
As a recently-graduated wildlife biologist in his 20s, Stahler volunteered to help with the novel Yellowstone Wolf project. He fed wolves meat in their pens as they waited to be released into the park — the first step in reacclimating wolves to the landscape and restoring the keystone predator’s population from near extinction.
“I kind of got my foot in the door at the very early stages,” Stahler said in an interview. “And essentially, I never left.”
From Yahoo! Sports:
A remote trail camera in Alberta, Canada, has captured nighttime footage showing a wolf running off with another camera.
The footage is amusing in that viewers can track the purloined camera in the wolf’s muzzle because of a bright light detected by other trail cameras.
From Connexion:
The wolf population has grown radically in the past five years in France, both in their number and in the territory that they cover. As a result the government has changed their categorisation from a ‘strictly protected’ to a ‘protected’ species, causing alarm among conservation groups.
From EuroNews:
The European Commission’s plans to review the conservation status of the wolf in Europe has divided the European Parliament.
In a debate convened by the European People’s Party (EPP) on Wednesday, right-leaning members of the European Parliament (MEPs) said the review was necessary to protect the livelihood of farmers in highland regions, whose livestock are being decimated by wolf packs.
The International Wolf Center advances the survival of wolf populations by teaching about wolves, their relationship to wildlands and the human role in their future.