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The first rule of wildlife management is that populations matter. Individuals don’t.
The second rule is that long-term trends—in species’ range and distribution, in habitat health, and even in human tolerance for various wild critters—trump the peaks and valleys of annual gain and loss.
Unlike the bloodless analytics of other scientific disciplines, wildlife management is organic. It happens outdoors. It’s often bloody. To borrow Hobbes’ perspective of humanity, most wild animals spend lives that are “nasty, brutish, and short.”
In Dan Nosowitz’s misinformed and virulent essay on wolf hunting around Yellowstone National Park, he seems ignorant of these tenets—and realities—of wildlife management. [ Read Full Post ]
Minnesota hunters harvested 147 wolves during the state's first regulated wolf hunt, causing the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources to close the early-season harvest Sunday night as scheduled.
The DNR initially set a statewide limit of 200 wolves for the early season, according to their website. As hunters neared the quotas in each of Minnesota's three wolf zones, the DNR closed zones to further harvests.
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A deer hunter shot and killed a mountain lion that was stalking him near Ainsworth, Neb. this weekend, reports the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission.
Nebraska's gun deer season opened Saturday, and the unidentified hunter was hunting from his ground blind. When he left the blind, he noticed a mountain lion walking parallel to him about 35 yards away. The big cat then made eye contact with the hunter and circled in front of him.
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Garrett Mikrut, 26, was hunting whitetail from his treestand north of Duluth on Saturday, the same day Minnesota's hotly-debated wolf season began. He noticed a doe and a fawn racing toward him and thought a buck might be in pursuit, reports the Star Tribune. But instead of a buck, two wolves appeared. [ Read Full Post ]
A Missouri bowhunter shot what appeared to be a massive coyote last week while deer hunting in the Franklin Island Conservation Area. But the sheer size of the animal is calling its biological identification into question. [ Read Full Post ]
A man-eating leopard believed to be responsible for the deaths of 14 or more people has claimed yet another victim in the Baitadi district of Nepal.
For 15 months, the region has been plagued by one or two leopards with a taste for human flesh. The latest victim was a 4-year-old boy who was dragged from his home into the nearby jungle less than a half mile from his house. [ Read Full Post ]
It was only a one-day trap season for Keith Follis’ but it was one he’ll remember forever.
On October 20, the Wisconsin native joined a select group of only 18 hunters and trappers to take a wolf in the state’s wolf season when he trapped one of the reintroduced predators in Brule. “The wolf wound up weighing 62 pounds,” Keith told the Duluth News Tribune. “But in the brush, it looked like 100 pounds. They’re a big animal. They’re real tall.”
Keith, 51, was especially elated to share the event with his 73-year-old father Buck Follis. [ Read Full Post ]
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