Loved the wolves, coudnt tell the red one though.
Tony Baylis
--- Rich Peet <> wrote:
> Our Wolves in MN have hit carrying capacity about 3
> years ago. I am
> sure even that is in dispute. Many of the
> Yellowstone wolves I
> recall comming from here.
>
> When land capacity was hit my concern was that we
> would start to see
> attacks against children. It did not happen. What
> we saw was a
> rapid migration and expansion of range. They now
> stretch all the way
> across the state of WI west to east and are adapting
> to suburban
> life. One wolf even made it from WI to IN which can
> not be done
> without going through the dense pack of Chicago.
>
> Have faith, your Yellowstone wolves will adapt
> better than any of the
> birds as long as you don't shoot them. Don't expect
> your coyote
> population to be maintained. If you need more
> replacements we got
> plenty and maybe with time the state will stop
> putting transmitters
> on them and let them be free.
>
> Now the Red Wolf of the south is a differnt problem.
> I know of no
> good news for them. Trying to keep the gene pool
> alive appears to be
> a struggle.
>
> If you want to hear.
> Hot summer wolves and if you are paying attention
> there is a Red Wolf
> in there as well.
> 500kb download.
> http://home.comcast.net/~richpeet/wolvesWSC.mp3
>
> Rich
>
> --- In Wild
> Sanctuary <>
> wrote:
> > Indeed, wolves have increased, John. Except for
> mad-men with high
> > powered rifles firing at the canids from airplanes
> (a policy
> recently
> > reinstated by Gov. Murkowski in Alaska, one of the
> principal
> > environmental policy-makers in the current
> administration), wolves
> > are among predators at the top of the proverbial
> food chain.
> >
> > Like elk and many other critters who have survived
> the long arc of
> > geological time, wolves haven't quite learned the
> kinds of
> effective
> > aversion behavior(s) necessary to respond to
> certain types of
> > recently introduced human noises such as aircraft
> and snowmobiles,
> > which have just emerged from the drawing-boards in
> the last century
> > century. Many critters tend to do nothing. So from
> the
> > traditionally-trained field biologists' point of
> view, those who
> > determine biological truths primarily from what
> they see and can
> > count visually, there tends to be no reaction to
> our noise because
> > the critters are observed to do nothing and their
> live body-counts
> > keep increasing. One recent study (Creel, et al)
> concluded that
> even
> > though there was a drastic change in the
> glucocorticoid enzyme
> > (stress) levels in elk and wolves, this was
> unimportant because the
> > academic model for success for wild populations is
> based primarily
> on
> > reproduction and observed behavior. Hmmmm...
> >
> > So much for the natural soundscape, eh?
> >
> > Bernie
> >
> > >Bernie mentionned the Yellowstone wolves and elk.
> > > In a recent Canadian Geographic article about
> the wolves, they
> have
> > >successfully increased to about two hundred and
> fiftyat
> Yellowstone.
> > >Elk, already in decline, have been reduced from
> 19,000 to about
> > >12,000. Coyotes have also declined in numbers.
> Smaller predators
> > >like the raven and the fox, have increased in
> numbers.The reduced
> > >browse of willows by the elk has caused some
> dramatic changes
> along
> > >river banks. There are more willows, more
> songbirds like yellow
> > >warblers and more beaver enjoying the willows.
> The increased shade
> > >over the water has also increased the fish
> population.
> > >Not bad for the wolf eh!
> > >
> > >John Neville
> > >
> > >[Non-text portions of this message have been
> removed]
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