As U.S. Wolf Populations Slowly Rebound, A Conservation Expert Reflects on Her Decades of Research
From National Academies:
onservation efforts over the past several decades in the U.S. have enabled many species of wolf to begin to recover from near total extinction — including the gray wolf of the Northern Rockies and western Great Lakes region, the red wolf in the southeastern part of the country, and the Mexican gray wolf of the American Southwest.
To mark National Wolf Awareness Week — which takes place Oct. 15-21 — we sat down with Diane K. Boyd, a renowned wolf and carnivore specialist at Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks and an affiliate faculty member at the University of Montana, Missoula. Boyd served on a National Academies study committee that produced a 2019 report on the taxonomy of the red wolf and Mexican gray wolf.
