Last week WBURs On Point broadcast a show entitled Ethical Hunting. The host, Tom Ashbrook, spent the majority of his time interviewing Lily Raff McCaulo and Steven Rinella. McCaulo recently published a book, Call of the Mild: Learning to Hunt … Continue reading
Today begins the annual Wolf Awareness Week to commemorate the return of wolves to their natural landscapes across North America. This week of celebration, education and advocacy was started by Defenders of Wildlife, the National Wildlife Federation, and various wolf … Continue reading
I recently read an interesting article entitled Top Predator on the Plains: Wolf, Bear or Human, written by Michelle Berry, a Masters student in Environmental Studies at Stanford University. You can read it here, http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/09/24/top-predator-on-the-plains-wolf-bear-or-human. Using historical documents, she examines … Continue reading
The debate about wolves is picking up again, due to the ill-advised decision of the Obama administration to delist wolves from the Endangered Species Act throughout the northern Rockies of the United States. Mother Jones has an excellent photoessay entitled … Continue reading
In a series of outstanding articles, investigative reporter Tom Knudson of the Sacramento Bee has pulled back the veil on an ironically named government agency, Wildlife Services. Using interviews, documentary research, the Freedom of Information Act, and whistle-blowers, Knudson reveals … Continue reading
The first species I featured under the Creatures links were coyotes (Canis latrans). While most of my work on canids has been with wolves, I have been fascinated by coyotes for some time. Known to William Thomas Seton as the … Continue reading