It’s that time of year again, when the days begin to fall shorter and the nights colder. As we prepare for the cooler months of autumn and winter, so do the wild species sharing our landscape. For different species, those preparations will vary. But one thing is certain – winter is harsh, and provisions must […]
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has reopened the public comment period and announced a public hearing on the agency’s proposed rule to amend public use regulations for Kenai National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) that would, among other changes, permit trapping, and killing of brown bears over bait and remove the requirement for a federal trapping […]
Taken from The Washington Post: DENVER – Gray wolves howled across the land now known as Colorado for millennia before they were hunted out of existence. Now state residents are deciding whether to let the predators once again lift their voices in the southern Rockies. If approved, a precedent-setting ballot measure would require state biologists to reintroduce […]
THE WORST SENSELESS KILLERS ON THIS PLANET – IT AINT THE WILDLIFE!! Wildlife Services – formerly called “Animal Damage Control” – is a federal agency that shoots, traps, and poisons wild animals en-masse at the behest of state governments, agricultural interests, and more….. According to the agency’s website, Wildlife Services “to improve the coexistence of […]
SEE VIDEO FOR FULL HOWLIN’ ENTERTAINMENT. Lazy-style howling requires a certain amount of finesse. Ambassador wolves Alawa and Zephyr from the Wolf Conservation Center? They nail it every time. A howl can mean many things: a greeting, a rallying cry to gather the family (a.k.a. pack) together, an announcement of their presence to warn other […]
A critically endangered red wolf was found dead from a gunshot wound on private lands in North Carolina in August, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. She was three years old. There are now only seven red wolves known to remain in the wild. The female was a dispersing member of the famed […]
This popular photo has been circulating around the internet for many years now. The photograph is typically accompanied with a caption that reads like this: “A wolf pack. The first three are the old or sick. They give the pace to the entire pack. If it was the other way round, they would be left […]
Hunters killed a total of 336 bears in the first segment of New Jersey’s black bear hunt, exceeding the number of bears killed during last year’s entire hunt. October 5, 2020 – New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy announced that this year’s controversial bear trophy hunt would be the last under his administration. The Governor said […]
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