April 16, 2024. Yes, It’s Legal To Run Down Wolves and Coyotes With Snowmobiles In Wyoming: Incident In Sublette County Casts Spotlight On State’s Codified Hostility Toward Predators. This long, detailed article shows how biased carnivore/wolf management is out west. This quote says it all for those that think the Cody Roberts situation was unique. It is not. “It is very common for people to take their entire families out on snowmobiles and train their kids to run down coyotes. To them, it’s considered just a normal activity. There’s no question they do it with wolves too if they can. If they can’t run them down, they’ll chase them until they fall in the snow from exhaustion and then shoot them. It’s considered a fun wholesome weekend activity.”
April 2, 2024. Yellowstone Wolf Project collars 23 wolves in winter study. This is a longer, interesting article about wolves in the park.
March 31, 2024. Yellowstone research reignites debate over wolf-generated trophic cascade.
February 15, 2024. Yellowstone Has Fewer Elk, So Wolves Form Bigger Packs To Hunt Bison: There are fewer elk and more bison in Yellowstone National Park, so wolves are changing their diet accordingly and going after bison, often forming larger packs to bring them down.
February 4, 2024: A Beary Special April in Yellowstone. Available as a free e-book. This e-book describes my 9 day trip to Yellowstone where I saw and photographed a specific grizzly bear hundreds of times on the Blacktail Plateau.
For more, including to download it, please visit the book’s link:
Way, J.G. 2024. A Beary Special April in Yellowstone. Eastern Coyote/Coywolf Research, Barnstable, Massachusetts. 596 pages. E-book. Open Access URL: http://www.easterncoyoteresearch.com/BearySpecialAprilinYellowstone.
31 January 2024. What Can Americans Agree on? Wolves. This is very encouraging: In expanding pockets of the West, citizens across the political spectrum are finding common ground as they adjust to living beside the wolf.
21 January 2024. Yellowstone’s ‘Zombie Deer Disease’ & Its Potential Threat to Humans: Chronic Wasting Disease (ref), a silent killer spreading through North America’s cervid population, including deer, elk, moose, and caribou, is a tale of negligence and missed warnings. This is yet another article that indicates the importance of predators, specifically wolves and cougars, to help limit the spread of the disease by their active predation on diseased individuals.
