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A Conversation with Suzanne Stone

The Northern Rockies wolf specialist for Defenders of Wildlife provides another perspective regarding the delisting of that wolf population.

Idaho and Montana Wolf Hunts - Updates and Perspectives

A variety of people answer questions about the wolf hunts in Idaho and Montana offering a full spectrum of opinions.

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From the Executive Director
Back to the Future


    This year, the International Wolf Center celebrates its 25th anniversary and its history of making a difference in the survival of wolf populations. In 1985, a small group of people led by Dave Mech created this nonprofit educational organization dedicated to teaching the world about wolves.

International Wolf Center Notes From Home

Tracking the Pack

    The Maturation of Another Litter

    The International Wolf Center has raised litters of pups since the first temporary exhibit in 1989. During the winter of 2009-10, the Exhibit Pack showed behaviors that coincide with maturing wolves.

Wolves of the World

    Studying Ellesmere Wolves: High Tech in the High Arctic

    "Wolves are very intriguing animals but difficult to get to know," says Dave Mech. (Mech 1997:19). This fact has lured Mech to the High Arctic region of Canada's north, with the promise that more could be learned about the behavior and ecology of wolves. Wolves are not afraid of humans here because they are not hunted this far north.

Personal Encounter

    The Deer and the Wolf Pack

    She was to be the sixth deer we saw making her way precariously across the ice on Abram Lake that day. It was Boxing Day 2007, and I stood at my kitchen window watching her through binoculars, wondering if she, too, would make it safely across. Because the current is too strong to freeze the lake solidly, there is always open water in that area. I had no idea what was about to unfold before my eyes.

Book Review

    Book Review of Recovery of Gray Wolves in the Great Lakes Region of the United States

    The cradle of wolf restoration is an irregular mass of land wrapped around the western tip of Lake Superior, including portions of northern Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. This is where wolf restoration in the contiguous United States first happened and where wolf restoration continues to be uniquely successful.

A Look Beyond

    Professionalism

    When Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger guided his A320 Airbus down on the Hudson River last January, the maneuver struck some observers as suicidal. Attempts at ditching airliners in water almost always end in mayhem and death. Yet Sully hit the water at exactly the right angle for a controlled crash landing.