Another press release by FWS PR person, displays blatant biases in reporting legitimate Mexican wolf issues as misperceptions. PR considers hybridism and habituation misperceptions that must be addressed in these press releases. However not one word does PR say about the wolf advocacy groups ridiculous fears that wolves are going extinct again in the wild. Nor does PR […]
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Posted in Education, Endangered Species Act (ESA), Habitual Behavior, Human Toll, Letters, Livestock Depredation, Uncategorized, Wolf Politics, Wolf Program Documents, Wolves in the News, wolf control and management on Jul 11th, 2008 6 Comments »
http://www.abqjournal.com/opinion/guest_columns/1193331a9_wolves_state07
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Friday, July 11, 2008
By Benjamin N. Tuggle
<http://www.abqjournal.com/cgi-bin/email_reporter.pl?staff=no>
Southwest Regional Director, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
There has been a lot of discussion about U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service efforts to recover the Mexican gray wolf in New Mexico and Arizona. The opinions of polarized groups have clearly dominated the public discourse regarding reintroduction, and the public debate […]
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US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
Southwest Region (Arizona ● New Mexico ● Oklahoma ●Texas)
http://www.fws.gov/southwest/
For Release: July 3, 2008
Contacts: Elizabeth Slown 505-248-6909 or 505-363-9592 (cell)
Illegal Activity Has Caused Multiple Wolf Deaths
Nine Mexican wolves have died […]
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Wolf Crossing’s analysis of this poll is somewhat different too bad most of the mainstream media didn’t take a harder look at the results. Here is the rest of the story
Poll shows Support for Wolves, ALSO that wolf management for ranching is OK.
Commissioned by organizations such as the Re-Wildling Institute, Arizona Zoological Society, New Mexico […]
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- United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services - Excerpt from USDA 2007 Wolf Activity Report (page 9) - RELATIVE LIKELIHOOD OF PREDATION ON LIVESTOCK BY EACH SPECIES
individual wolves were about 170 times more likely to kill cattle than were individual coyotes or bears. Individual wolves were about 21 […]
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