Wolves

For the topics Smith, J. (N.D.). Wild, Endangered & Beautiful. Retrieved January 30, 2012 from []

In the past and the present, there were bounties put on the wolves. There were also times when they would burn the wolves and deliberately give them a parasitic skin disease. Now there is a new sport called "Chasing wolves with snow mobiles" and up to 600 wolves die every year because of this so called "sport"! Also, "Shooting wolves from helicopters, has now become a new trend for Idaho & Montana"!

Weise, E. (11. 14, 2011). Endangered gray wolf wanders into California. Retrieved February 2, 2012 from [] It has been eighty years since the last wolf was killed in California. They found wolf OR7 with the help of his GPS collar. He crossed into California on Dec. 28. Then a man from California Department of Fish and Game in Sacramento said, "It wasn't a huge surprise to us, we knew it was going to happen, we just didn't know when," says Jordan Traverso."

N.A.(2.10.12). Endangered wolf found injured in eastern Arizona in December died of gunshot wound. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/0564b4d87f9b4f00ad892b6ec6c412a6/AZ--Wolf-Death/ An injured wolf was found shot to death December 3, 2011 in Arizona. The wolf was born earlier in 2011 and was wearing a tracking collar. There are only about 58 Mexican gray wolves in Arizona and New Mexico.

N.A. (12.15.04). Killing Wolves Kills Other Animals Too. Retrieved February 16, 2012 from http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/DyeHard/story?id=328495&page=1 Animals are being effected by wolves being endangered. Like, now that the wolves are back in Yellowstone, the Elk are staying away from dangerous places to eat like highways. So while many researchers have been focusing on the lethal impact of the restoring the wolves, the fear of wolves by some animals has made an even more dramatic impact on the entire region. Scientists are calling it the "ecology of fear." ""The fear instilled in the elk, based on the return of wolves, has affected the ecosystem in ways we didn't think about before," says William Ripple, a forestry scientist at Oregon State University in Corvallis. Ripple and an Oregon State colleague, Robert Beschta, reported some surprising findings recently in the journals BioScience and Forest Ecology and Management."

Against the topic

Barringer, F. (4.12.11). Congress, in a First, Removes an Animal From the Endangered Species List. Retrieved January 25, 2012 from []

This website is about how the wolves are being taken off the Endangered Species List. "A rider to the Congressional budget measure agreed to last weekend dictates that wolves in Montana and Idaho be taken off the endangered species list and managed instead by state wildlife agencies, which is in direct opposition to a federal judge’s recent decision forbidding the Interior Department to take such an action." It also tells you that the budget is changing. "Among the cuts were $49 million from programs relating to climate change, $438 million from programs supporting energy efficiency and renewable energy, $638 million from environmental cleanup efforts by the Defense Department and $997 million from revolving funds through which the Environmental Protection Agency provides money for local water treatment and pollution cleanup programs." This quote has to do with wolves because if the budget is changing then that means they will have more money to help the environment.