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"Do You Think We'll See Any Wolves Today?"
by Paul Stinsa
Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park in Alaska has been
described as the premier bearviewing location on Earth. Visitors
from all over the world travel each summer to the remote Alaskan
wilderness to watch brown bears fish the river and feast on
sockeye salmon. The midsummer return to the falls of hundreds of
thousands of spawning sockeye salmon attracts one of the largest
concentrations of b rown bears found anywhere. If you have seen
photos or video of a giant brown bear with his mouth open wide,
sitting atop a fast-moving waterfall, about to catch a leaping
salmon in midair, the images were likely taken at Brooks Falls.
Sensational Geographic
by Nancy Gibson
My choice for this year's sci-fi award goes to National
Geographic cable television. Survivor and Fear Factor meet
National Geographic. It is a painful transition. Two recently
aired National Geographic shows, A Man Among Wolves and
"Shadow Stalkers," an episode of Hunter and Hunted, have
shattered our neat picture of National Geographic. One depicts a
self-anointed wolf expert caged with three captive wolves in a
small enclosure in England under the delusion he can teach them
how to survive in the wild. The other show concerns a grisly
death turned corrosive mystery in which an anthropologist, not a
wildlife biologist, is asked to solve the highly charged case of
a human possibly killed by wolves in the Canadian wilderness.
Wild furry animals with big teeth on the move in the night have
always been a source of emotional conflict. National Geographic
capitalizes on these feelings and devises overbaked scenes with
wolves posed either as villains or friends. The ultimate victim
is the viewer.
Are Wolves a Canary in the Climatic Coal Mine?
by Nancy jo Tubbs
We hear almost daily about the effects of global climate change.
At the Center, we are frequently asked, will it affect wolves?
Planning for Pups
by Lori Schmidt, Wolf Curator, International Wolf Center
The International Wolf Center manages an exhibit of wolves at
its educational facility in Ely, Minnesota. Rather than
maintaining multiple species, like a zoo, we focus our care on a
limited number of ambassador wolves, which help us achieve our
mission of advancing the survival of wolf populations by
teaching about wolves, their relationship to wildlands and the
human role in their future.
Wolves of the World on the Web
by Cornelia Hutt
Think you have to spend hours searching the Web for answers to
these questions? Think again! The information you need is just a
click or two away on the International Wolf Center's Web site.
On the home page, www.wolf.org, cruise up to "Learn" at the top
of the page. When the drop-down menu appears, click on "Wolves
of the World." Up pops a map of the world. You can click on a
region or select a specific region from the menu.
Wolves Return to Poland's Holy Cross Primeval Forest
by Roman Gula
In Febru a ry 2006, I received an e-mail from an old high-school
friend. He still lives in our hometown in Poland and had come
across an article published in the local newspaper that
mentioned that wolves lived in a nearby forest, the Holy Cross
Primeval Forest. Knowing that I am a biologist whose current
research interest is wolves, he mailed me the article. When I
read the article, I became curious about this rumor. Apparently,
one of the villagers I had grown up with had noticed wolf tracks
and had actually seen wolves.
The Hydatid Tapeworm: A Curious Parasite That Has No Fear of
the Big, Bad Wolf
by Jay Hutchinson
As many as 25 different kinds of parasitic tapeworms have been
recorded from the innards of wolves around the world. One of
these, the hydatid tapeworm, is being publicized by some
anti-wolf people as a threat to livestock and humans in North
America just as wolves are expanding their range into areas
where they were once common.
What Does "Recovery" Mean for Red Wolves?
by Bud Fazio
As shown in the Winter 2007 issue of International Wolf, the
Red Wolf Recovery Program and its partners and supporters
celebrate many restoration and management successes over the
past 40 years. Surrounding these successes is the question of
what constitutes "recovery" of red wolves, a topic pertinent to
many other federally threatened or endangered species listed in
the United States. Because historic occurrence and modern re-
covery criteria differ for each listed species, there is no s
ingle definition of "recovery."
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