What leads me to believe there's hope for wolves & wildlife in the coming year? It's in the work; letters to the editor, emails to legislators & phone calls done by wolf advocates. Work that is being done with a great deal of care and compassion for wolves. This work being done by wolf advocates …
A new conspiracy theory has wolf advocates inflating white-tailed deer numbers…
In Wisconsin deer hunters can now register deer electronically. And now...A northern Wisconsin newspaper believes, that wolf protectionists bought gun deer licenses and called in or logged in fake bucks in hopes of boosting the northern Wisconsin harvest. The Lakeland Times Wisconsin’s annual nine-day gun deer hunt sees increase in statewide buck harvest 2016. The largest …
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Letters to Senator Baldwin: Please do not remove wolves from the endangered species list…
December 2014 a federal judge ordered that wolves in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan be placed back on the endangered species list. Currently, there is legislation being pushed to delist wolves in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan and Wyoming. In Wisconsin several legislators, one being republican senator Tom Tiffany, began a campaign to delist wolves in Wisconsin and …
WDNR Wolf Advisory Committee is not fair and balancedÂ
In other words, there is no transparency in WI DNR Secretary Cathy Stepp's Wolf management process. Several DNR staff are on the recently created Wolf Advisory Committee, as are representatives of several pro-hunting groups. A smaller number of wolf hunting skeptics also remain on the committee, including a representative of the Great Lakes Indian Fish …
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Letter to the editor: We don’t need wolf hunting seasons to control wolf depredation
Source: madison.com Dear Editor: Sen. Tom Tiffany promotes wolf delisting to restart wolf hunting seasons, else "you're going to see attacks on pets, cattle and hopefully not people." He warns hunters to "watch out for wolves." Like his wolf consultant, bear hounder Laurie Groskopf, Tiffany exaggerates, misleads, and scaremongers. Listed or delisted, wolves posing threat to …
The Myths and Realities About Humankind’s Relationship with Wolves: A story of love and hate.
From a WODCW archives
Vegetable Soup for the Wolf Lover’s SoulÂ
Just a fable? Maybe not?
Wolves may be recovered enough to delist but are individual states prepared to protect them?Â
WODCW archive written In 2015.
The Debt We Owe the Gray Wolf
WODCW's archive from Woodsman Barry Babcock
Yellowstone wolf researcher Kira Cassidy highlights the value of what old individuals can teach us…
From WODCW's blog archives...