Posted by Matt Skoglund in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Montana wildlife commissioners approved yesterday a wolf hunt set to begin this fall. The quota is 75 wolves, which is about 15 percent of Montana's wolf population. NRDC is not against hunting or a future wolf hunt (when the...continued→
Posted by Matt Skoglund in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
In the Northern Rockies, two complaints are often heard from the anti-wolf crowd: (1) wolves are a huge threat to livestock ranchers because they kill so many cows and sheep, and (2) wolves have decimated elk herds to the point...continued→
Posted by Matt Skoglund in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Verlyn Klinkenborg, an exceptional writer and a member of the New York Times editorial board, published an editorial on wolves in the Northern Rockies in yesterday's New York Times. In his editorial, Klinkenborg eloquently described something usually missing from the...continued→
Posted by Matt Skoglund in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
The gray wolves of Isle Royale in Lake Superior are suffering from backbone malformations caused by genetic inbreeding, wildlife biologists from Michigan and Sweden report in the May 2009 issue of the journal Biological Conservation. While this discovery threatens the...continued→
