Posts Tagged: wolves

Efficacy of Killing Large Carnivores to Enhance Moose Harvests: New Insights from a Long-Term View
November 30, 2022
We analyzed harvest data to test hypotheses that nearly 4 decades of effort to reduce abundance of brown bears (Ursus arctos), black bears (U. americanus) and gray wolves (Canis lupis) in an 60,542 km2 area in south-central Alaska (Game Management … read more
Posted in Hunting Wolves, Resources | Tagged alaska, black bear, brown bear, case history, intensive management, moose, predator control, wolves

Liberalizing the killing of wolves State of the science
December 30, 2021
Recently, some state governments began pursuing aggressive efforts to reduce wolf populations through programs that include liberalized hunting and trapping seasons, and efforts to incentivize killing (e.g., bounties). These efforts represent a departure from policies of the recent past, raising … read more
Posted in Hunting Wolves | Tagged Bounties, carnivores, killing, Policies, science, State Government, wolves

Are Gray Wolves Endangered in the Northern Rocky Mountains? A Role for Social Science in Listing Determinations
November 29, 2021
Conservation scientists increasingly recognize the need to incorporate the social sciences into policy decisions. In practice, however, considerable challenges to integrating the social and natural sciences remain. In this article, we review the US Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) 2009 … read more
Posted in Human Dimensions | Tagged conservation policy, Endangered Species Act, listing determination, social sciences, wolves

The Practices of Wolf Persecution, Protection, and Restoration in Canada and the United States
August 29, 2021
Wolf management can be controversial, reflecting a wide range of public attitudes. We analyzed wolf management case histories representing a spectrum of approaches in Canada and the United States. During the early 20th century, wolves were considered undesirable. They were … read more
Posted in Canada, Europe, & Asia Wolves | Tagged Canis lupus, conservation, control, North America, wolves

How do YouTube videos impact tolerance of wolves?
December 31, 2020
The internet serves as a dominant source of information and may shape tolerance of wildlife species. Our experimental study examined how respondents’ tolerance for wolves (i.e., attitudes, acceptance, and behavior) changed after viewing wolf related YouTube videos. Respondents were randomly … read more
Posted in Human Dimensions | Tagged acceptance, attitudes, behavior, Canis lupus, tolerance, wolves

Wolves, trophic cascades, and rivers in the Olympic National Park, USA
October 27, 2020
Gray wolves (Canis lupus) were extirpated in the early 1900s from the Olympic Peninsula of northwestern Washington. Thus, we studied potential cascading effects of wolf removal by undertaking a retrospective study of Roosevelt elk (Cervus elaphus) populations, riparian forests, and … read more
Posted in Trophic Cascade | Tagged channel morphology, elk, riparian plant communities, trophic cascades, wolves