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Wolves and Animal Protection

In the middle of December 2014, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell reversed a 2012 decision of the US Fish and Wildlife Service that declared wolves were fully recovered in the midwestern Great Lakes region. Because of that decision management of … Continue reading

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Dances with Wild Wolves

In anticipation of last Saturday’s National Rally to Protect America’s Wolves, Brenda Peterson had a lovely blog/essay in the Green section of The Huffington Post. Entitled “Dances with Wild Wolves: Rally on the National Mall“, Peterson relates a story of … Continue reading

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NYTimes Lambasts USFWS Over Wolf Peer Review Panel

On the 15th of August, the editorial page of the New York Times lambasted the USFWS’s efforts at political manipulation of a scientific panel. The panel was intended to review the decision to delist grey wolves from the endangered species … Continue reading

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Unsound Science and Flawed Policies About Wolves

The USFWS’s decision to delist grey wolves has come under tremendous criticism, both for bowing to vested political and economic interests in the anti-wolf camp, as well as for being scientifically undependable. On the science matter, a group of scientists … Continue reading

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Countdown to Delisting Grey Wolves

For the past several weeks, I have focused on the Barred Owl Removal Experiment and its ethics review. Meanwhile, the countdown towards delisting grey wolves in the United States continues. Less than a month remains. You can find the proposals … Continue reading

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