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The truth about wolves is hard to find

Some hunters claim wolves are killing too many deer and elk in northwestern Montana, but the facts indicate otherwise -- although those facts are easily lost in all the emotional rhetoric.

by Christina Nealson, Apr 26, 2012
Wolf management in Idaho is not ready for prime time

The controversy that flared when a trapper posted a photo of himself with a dying wolf proves that Idaho and other Western states are incapable of managing wolves without the help of the Endangered Species Act.

by Michael J. Robinson, Apr 25, 2012
Wolf on a picnic table

Is a more-or-less trained and captive wolf anything at all like a truly wild wolf?

by Charles Finn, Nov 11, 2011
When the bear comes too close to home

It's easy to love wild animals like bears until they actually start eating your chickens and coming a little too close to your family for comfort.

by Dev Carey, Nov 09, 2011
Billboard battles don't help much

Extreme rhetoric about wolves, whether pro or con, doesn't help solve the problems around the issue.

by Mitch Wolgamott, Sep 01, 2011
The paradoxical call of the wild

Wolves may be returning to Colorado on their own 70 years after their deliberate extirpation from the state.

by Jonathan Thompson , Feb 09, 2010
Rural West going to the dogs

Despite all the fuss about wolves and other wild predators, feral and free-roaming dogs in the West may actually pose a greater danger to livestock, wildlife and people.

by Troy Anderson, May 26, 2008
Remembering our wildness

In The Animal Dialogues, Colorado author Craig Childs writes of chance encounters with wild animals.

by Sarah Gilman, Mar 17, 2008
Living precariously with wolves and cattle

Bryce Andrews kills a wolf in order to save his cattle – and the lives of other wolves.

by Bryce Andrews, Aug 06, 2007
The resurgence of hook-and-bullet conservation

Hunters have done a huge amount over the years to preserve wildlife and habitat, but the powerful group Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife, with its obsessive focus on killing predators, seems to be taking a step backward

by Paul Larmer, Jun 25, 2007