Posts Tagged: policy

Attitudes to Wolves and Wolf Policy Among Ojibwe Tribal Members and Non-tribal Residents of Wisconsin’s Wolf Range

Posted on September 1, 2020

Gray wolf (Canis lupus) policy is dynamic and involves multiple stakeholders. Attitudinal surveys have historically measured stakeholder attitudes, although Native American views have rarely been studied systematically. We sent a mail-back questionnaire to members of the Bad River Band of … read more

Posted in Native American, Resources | Tagged carnivore management, human, Native Americans, ojibwe, policy, stakeholder opinion, survey, treaty rights, Tribal, Victoria Shelley, wildlife, wisconsin, wolves

Myths and assumptions about human-wildlife conflict and coexistence

Posted on July 6, 2020

Recent extinctions often resulted from humans retaliating against wildlife that threatened people’s interests or were perceived to threaten current or future interests. Today’s subfield of human-wildlife conflict and coexistence (HWCC) grew out of an original anthropocentric concern with such real … read more

Posted in Human Dimensions | Tagged animal damage, bias, biodiversity conservation, implicit value judgments, interventions, planning, policy

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Study: Depleted wolf packs unlikely to welcome immigrants
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"I think it's highlighting that it's a more nuanced relationship," lead author Sarah Bassing said. "It's not going to be as cut and dry as you harvest wolves and they're coming back. Period."

Instead, it seems that even packs reduced through legal hunting are unlikely to accept newcomers. The study was published in Animal Conservation in December and sheds further light on the social and hierarchical nature of wolf packs. ... See MoreSee Less

Study: Depleted wolf packs unlikely to welcome immigrants

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SPOKANE — Footloose and unaffiliated wolves don't often integrate with established packs, even when there is room for them to do so.

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More wolves show up in Eastern Oregon
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The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has identified a new area of known wolf activity in the Murderers Creek Wildlife Unit of Eastern Oregon.
A gray wolf started to show up roughly a year ago. Torland said this was throughout the winter and then disappeared in the spring.
He said it started to show up more consistently from late July to early August this year. In late November, he said ODFW issued an “area of known wolf activity” for the gray wolf.
Torland said ODFW identified a pack of wolves in the Desolation Unit this year in March.
He said there are a pair of wolves in the Northside Unit. He said ODFW is not aware of the pair successfully raising a pup.
Torland said, if a pup survives through December, they consider it as part of the population of wolves in the area. He said ODFW assumes if the pup survived that long it will make it.
The agency counts the population from January through March, he said.
“So any wolves we count would meet those criteria of being recruited into the population,” he said.
Torland said ODFW’s official population count as of March was seven. With the agency’s recent designation at Murderers Creek, the unofficial count is now at eight.
He said he does not believe more wolves are in Northside, but he does think there might be more in Desolation.
According to ODFW’s website, an “Area of Known Wolf Activity” is an area designated by ODFW showing where resident wolves and packs have become established.

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