Author Archives: Nathan Lyle
Quantifying the effects of delisting wolves after the first state began lethal management
July 31, 2021
Predators and their protection are controversial worldwide. Gray wolves, Canis lupus, lost U.S. federal protection (delisting) and the State of Wisconsin began lethal management first among all states and tribes that regained authority over wolves. Here we evaluated the initial … read more
Posted in Hunting Wolves | Tagged Anthropogenic mortality, Canis lupus, Human-caused mortality, hunting, Illegal take, poaching, policy, Regulated an dunregulated off-take, U.S. endangered species act, Wisconsin gray wolf
2020-2021 Greater Voyageurs Ecosystem Wolf Pack and Population Size Report
July 31, 2021
Winter 2020-2021 was the most successful winter monitoring effort to date in the Greater Voyageurs Ecosystem (GVE) in terms of the number of packs studied and the number of independent observations of each pack (Fig. 1). In total, we estimated … read more
Posted in Great Lakes Wolves, News, Regional Wolves
The Wolf: A Treaty of Cultural and Environmental Survival
July 31, 2021
“Given the cultural significance of the wolf, this treaty is now symbolic of the struggle to protect our rights and cultures, our sacred lands and waters, and the sacred beings that infuse and inhabit them. From the wolf in the … read more
Posted in Native American
Influence of body mass and environmental conditions on winter mortality risk of a northern ungulate: Evidence for a late-winter survival bottleneck
July 31, 2021
Identifying limiting factors for animals with seasonally dynamic life histories sometimes requires understanding intra-annual periods of resource scarcity (e.g., Ashmole, 1963). For ungulates living in northern environments, winter is generally a period of negative energy budget when forage provides some … read more
Posted in General, Predator/Prey Relationships | Tagged Canis latrans, Canis lupus, cause-specific mortality, Odocoileus virginianus, weather, winter severity index
Transparency About Values and Assertions of Fact in Natural Resource Management
July 2, 2021
Worldwide, unsustainable use of nature threatens the collapse of ecosystems and the benefits they provide to non-humans and humans alike (Ceballos et al., 2015, 2020; Darimont et al., 2015; Ripple et al., 2017; Ceballos and Ehrlich, 2018; FAO, 2020). Yet, … read more
Posted in Human Dimensions | Tagged Biotechnical Faculty, canada, Carnivore Coexistence Lab, Department of Forestry, Department of Geography, Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, Ljubljana, Madison, Manistee, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, Raincoast Conservation Foundation, Sidney, Slovenia, United States, University of Ljubljana, University of Victoria, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Victoria
Ground Rules for Ethical Ecology
July 2, 2021
A reprint from American Scientist the magazine of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society Tackling environmental crises requires moral as well as scientific clarity As an environmental ethicist, I routinely sit in meetings where the word “sustainability” is uttered … read more
Posted in Human Dimensions
