Results for keyword: predators
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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 24, 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 10, 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 08, 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, Aug 31, 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
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