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Beyond 2000:
Realities of Global Wolf Restoration

23-26 February 2000
Duluth, Minnesota USA

Program and Abstracts

Wednesday, 23 February 2000

IUCN - World Conservation Union Wolf Specialist Group Meeting

Wolf Specialist Group Meeting Minutes

Wolf Specialist Group Press Conference

Wolf Organizations Meeting Photograph

Large Screen Film: WOLVES

Native American Opening Ceremony: Welcome to Ojibwe country

Den Store

WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS
Walter Medwid, Executive Director, and Nancy Jo Tubbs, Chair
International Wolf Center

Allen Garber, Commissioner
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

William Hartwig, Regional Director
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

L. David Mech, U.S. Geological Survey
Celebrating wolf recovery

PLENARY SESSION 1
L. David Mech, Moderator

Juan Carlos Blanco, Spain
Wolf recolonization of agricultural areas of Spain

Michael K. Phillips, USA
Wolf-livestock interactions

Yadvendradev Jhala, India
Human-wolf conflict in India

Panel Discussion: Human-wolf conflicts
Walter Medwid, Moderator
Juan Carlos Blanco, Spain
Michael K. Phillips, USA
Yadvendradev Jhala, India
L. David Mech, USA
Rick Stronks, Canada

CONCURRENT SESSIONS A AND B
Conflicts Between Wolves and Humans
Wolf-Prey Interactions
Status of Wolves Around the World
Wolf Recovery and Conservation
Discoveries in Wolf Behavior and Ecology

Large Screen Film: WOLVES

Live Auction

Book Signings

Photos with Live Arctic Wolf

Alpha Member Breakfast

Den Store

CONCURRENT SESSIONS C AND D
Conflicts Between Wolves and Humans
Status of Wolves Around the World
Wolf Recovery and Conservation
Discoveries in Wolf Behavior and Ecology

Lunch Banquet

GENERAL SESSION:
The challenge of wolf recovery in Minnesota
Christopher M. McMahon, Moderator

Mike DonCarlos
Wolves in Minnesota: Their Past, Present and Future
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

Allen Garber, Commissioner
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

Panel Discussion
Five panelists, all members of the original 1999 Minnesota Wolf Management Roundtable, discussed the breadth of issues that form the human dimensions portion of the wolf management debate. The five panelists represented the livestock industry, deer hunters, animal rights advocates, mainstream conservationists, and conservationists. Legislative Discussion Panel included legislative leaders and authors of the Minnesota 2000 Wolf Management Plan.

Press Conference

Poster Session and Reception

Large Screen Film: WOLVES

Den Store/Silent Auction

WELCOME EDUCATORS

PLENARY SESSION 2
Pam Troxell, Timber Wolf Alliance
The work of Sigurd F. Olson and other
early researchers and conservationists
Abstract not available

David Paxson, World Population Balance
Human population, consumption and sustainability: Infinite growth in a finite world

Nancy Gibson and Amy Kay Kerber,
International Wolf Center
Live arctic wolf program

CONCURRENT SESSION E
Wolf Recovery and Conservation

Panel Discussion
The challenges of wolf education around the world
Corneilia Hutt, Moderator
Invited Participants:
Anders Bjärvall, Sweden
Luigi Boitani, Italy
Djuro Huber, Croatia
Yadvendradev Jhala, India
Francisco Petrucci-Fonseca, Portugal
Christoph Promberger, Germany
John and Mary Theberge, Canada

Large Screen Film: WOLVES

Educator Poster Session

Book Signings

CONCURRENT SESSION F
Special Session for Educators

Symposium Concludes