Category Archives: predators

In upper Midwest, tensions flare between wolf advocates and hunters

Posted on November 2, 2012 | Leave a comment

The solution: No hunting season for Canis lupus! Let the predators live as native predators. It’s clear that a whole lot of people never learned the lesson which Aldo Leopold tried to impart on his fellow humans. The NY Times has this look at the :”tension” between the two camps.

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Posted in gray wolf, Minnesota, predation, predators, wildlife crime, wildlife habitat, wildlife issues, Wildlife Services, Wisconsin, Wisconsin wolves, wolves

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Grizzly sunset: A journey into Colorado’s final refuge for the great bear

Posted on June 27, 2012 | Leave a comment

“Those who have packed far up into grizzly country know that the presence of even one grizzly on the land elevates the mountains, deepens the canyons, chills the winds, brightens the stars, darkens the forest, and quickens the pulse of all who enter it.”
JOHN MURRAY, “The Great Bear”

Conservationists across the land, not just in Colorado and elsewhere in the West, nod their heads in sadness over a lot of things. But key among them is the fate of the Griz. Read about it here.

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Posted in Aldo Leopold, biodiversity, Colorado, grizzly bear, grizzly bears, predators

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USDA’s ‘Wildlife Services’ is the wildlife killing agency

Posted on June 10, 2012 | Leave a comment

And the killing is not pretty. Even Bald and Golden eagles have been killed by Wildlife Services field workers, as this in-depth newspaper article explains in excruciating detail. Wildlife Services isn’t just about protecting the livestock of “ranchers” who’ve leased federal public land (ours!). Nosiree. It’s about killing any and all native predators. And that’s how it has been for a bunch of decades. Time to stop the killing. The human usurpation of habitat for buildings, roads and parking lots is bad enough.

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Posted in bald eagles, cougar, coyotes, Golden Eagles, predation, predators, U.S. Department of Agriculture, welfare ranching, wildlife crime, wildlife habitat, wildlife issues, wildlife management, Wildlife Services

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N.M.-based group sues USDA over predator-killing program

Posted on May 2, 2012 | Leave a comment

The program is called “Wildlife Services” and it is hardly a positive, conservation-oriented program. This article by the Associated Press’s Scott Sonner gets into the meat – a little bit at least – of the conservationists’ argument.

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Posted in predation, predators, public lands, public lands ranching, wildlife crime, wildlife habitat, wildlife issues, Wildlife Services

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How to deal with predator of bluebirds

Posted on March 20, 2012 | Leave a comment

In Pennsylvania, a bunch of years ago, I maintained a trail of more than a dozen nest boxes for bluebirds and tree swallows. It was great fun. Read this piece for ideas on how to deal with box issues like wasps.

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Wolf shot/killed in southeastern Mt. had traveled far

Posted on November 30, 2011 | 3 comments

There goes another part of “wild America.” That’s my immediate reaction to the wolf-killing described in this article from Montana. Humans still cannot find it in their hearts to share the land with the wildlife of our natural heritage. What a damn shame.

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Posted in crimes against nature, gray wolf, Montana, predation, predators, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, wolves

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Predators and healthy ecosystems

Posted on September 19, 2011 | Leave a comment

Scientists have recently begun to understand the vital role played by top predators in ecosystems and the profound impacts that occur when those predators are wiped out. Now, researchers are citing new evidence that shows the importance of lions, wolves, sharks, and other creatures at the top of the food chain.

Read more right here.


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Posted in eastern cougar, ecology, predation, predators

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Study: Restoring gray wolf means restoring the lynx, too

Posted on September 1, 2011 | Leave a comment

The results of the study, outlined in this article, suggest the classic Web of Life dictum. Now, if states would just stop killing wolves again (how much of this killing is simply to make money from license sales?), we might really see the Canada lynx restored to its place among wild predators.

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Judge upholds congressional change to wolf status

Posted on August 4, 2011 | Leave a comment

More than ever, the whole scenario surrounding the northern Rockies population of the Gray Wolf is a case of management not by science but by innuendo and special interest legislation. So much for Conservation Biology.

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Posted in Endangered Species Act, endangered/threatened species, gray wolf, predation, predators, wolves

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Wolverines roam central Idaho backcountry

Posted on April 15, 2011 | Leave a comment

And that backcountry is, for the most part, public land! Big open, whole habitat that’s not compromised by roads and other development is what this species (and many, many others) need. Let’s give it to them. Read about Idaho’s wolverines.

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Posted in Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness, Idaho, Idaho Fish and Game Department, Idaho wildlife, predators, wolverine

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