Posts Tagged: coexistence

Livestock Manangement for Coexistence with Large Carnivores, Healthy Land & Productive Ranches

Posted on July 3, 2019

Livestock – large carnivore coexistence practitioners can be more effective by expanding from a direct focus on carnivores and predation-prevention tools to the broader social-ecological context of ranches and rural communities, especially livestock management. Ranchers can apply many of the … read more

Posted in Non-Lethal Management Tools | Tagged carnivores, coexistence, healthy, large, livestock, manangement, productive

Managing Conflict: Coexistence with Bears, Cougars, and Wolves

Posted on June 20, 2019

Wolves, grizzly bears, and cougars are symbolic and contested animals. They are vital to ecosystem health, but represent wilderness and mystery to some and vermin and destruction to others. Whether large carnivore populations expand numerically or spatially is not a … read more

Posted in Conflicts | Tagged bears, coexistence, conflict, cougars, managing, wolves

A Ranchers Guide – Coexistence Among Livestock, People & Wolves

Posted on June 20, 2019

The overall goal of this guide is to describe various tools and provide information about methods that can be adapted to prevent and minimize conflicts among livestock and wolves where they overlap. The guide outlines various management and husbandry techniques … read more

Posted in Conflicts | Tagged among, coexistence, guide, livestock, people, ranchers, wolves

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Michigan wolves require population control, hunt supporters arguebit.ly/3dUzGosMichigan Senate Republicans have advanced a resolution that urges wildlife officials to hold a gray wolf hunting and trapping season in the Upper Peninsula this year following the loss of endangered species protections.The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) says it’ll take until at least next June to update the state’s 2015 wolf management plan and hold a public opinion survey. The DNR wants to finish those before deciding on another hunt.In the meantime, state law allows the use of lethal force against wolves now to prevent them from killing dogs or livestock. While federally listed, wolves previously could only be legally killed in defense of human life in Michigan.McBroom, who lined up pro-hunt testimony from several hunting groups in the U.P., repeatedly questioned why the state’s plan must be updated before a new hunt and he panned an opinion survey as “foolish and unnecessary.”“With a stable population for 10 years and without threat to human life and with minimal livestock predations, what would be the incentive to have a hunt when it doesn’t appear that there are any objective issues with the wolf population as it stands?” Tamulevich said.Jeff Towner, a former U.S. Fish and Wildlife biologist from Negaunee, broke the chain of U.P. support versus downstate opposition by calling actions pushed in McBroom’s resolution “wholly unnecessary to the effective management of the gray wolf population.” ... See MoreSee Less

Michigan wolves require population control, hunt supporters argue

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Upper and Lower Peninsula cultural divides on display in Senate Natural Resources committee hearing.

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Government offers plan to release more endangered red wolves

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Government wildlife officials released two more critically endangered red wolves into the wild in North Carolina and could place several more captive-bred wolves into the habitat this year, according to

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