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A setback for wolf science

October 23, 2009

Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

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biogems, endangeredspecies, wildlife, wolves, yellowstone

A news article in today's issue of Science magazine discusses the consequences of the northern Rockies wolf hunts on years of scientific research on some of the most well-studied wolves in North America - those of Yellowstone National Park.  Since...continued

Anecdotal wolf data is convenient – except when it isn’t

October 6, 2009

Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
biogems, endangeredspecies, rockymountains, wildlife, wolves, yellowstone

For years, the US Fish and Wildlife Service has disregarded empirically based calculations of population size that call for thousands of wolves to maintain a viable population. Instead, they preferred to point to anecdotal "case histories" of small, isolated populations...continued

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Sylvia Fallon
Staff Scientist
Washington, DC
My interest in the natural world led me to study ecology and evolutionary biology, but...
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