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Beyond 2000:
Realities of Global Wolf Restoration

23-26 February 2000
Duluth, Minnesota USA

 


Minnesota public and the Wolf, 1999 and 1984

Stephen R. Kellert, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA

This paper will consider attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors toward the gray wolf (Canis lupis) among adult residents of Minnesota in 1999, with comparisons to analogous data collected in 1984. The findings are based on the views of randomly sampled adult residents of northern Minnesota, other areas of Minnesota, farmers, and consumptive wildlife users. Major topics of consideration include basic values toward the wolf, attitudes toward wolf conservation and management, knowledge of the wolf, and behaviors relating to wolves. Additional comparisons are provided of Minnesota residents distinguished by age, education, and gender. Major topical issues covered include: concern for and interest in wolves, removing the wolf from Federal endangered and threatened species classification, state management of the wolf, conflict and competition between wolves and human development, wolves and livestock production, controlling problem wolves, consumptive and non-consumptive uses of wolves, wolves and human hunting, and government management of wolves.