Wolves. Defenders of Wildlife. Wood River Wolf Project. Wood River Project Area, © Defenders of Wildlife Suzanne Stone, Northern Rockies Representative Spring is one of the most beautiful times of year in the Rockies. Native flowers explode across the landscape, accenting a verdant quilt of new grass. The snow recedes, leaving only white caps on mountain peaks. Storms bring sudden bursts of rain or late snow, followed by robin’s egg-blue skies and golden sunshine. A new generation of deer fawns, bear cubs, moose and elk calves, and nests of hatching chicks all emerge as the land renews itself and comes to life once again. sheepherder Guard dogs and people work together to protect sheep.
But spring is also lambing time in the region, and it’s the return of both wildlife and livestock that signals the beginning of our field season. The Wood River Wolf Project was initiated in 2008 to demonstrate the use of nonlethal deterrents to prevent livestock and predator losses in our project area. Sheep in fladry night coral And we’re not alone. Wood River Wolf Project (Facebook) Howling For Wolves. Billboards. Jump to navigation Howling For Wolves Secondary Menu Share Main menu Howling for Wolves Billboards Getting Attention Billboard launched by Howling for Wolves are getting attention throughout the metro area in the Twin Cities.
View City Pages coverage here. View Fox Twin Cities coverage here. View WCCO coverage here. August 4, 2012 About Howling For Wolves About the Gray Wolf ShareThis Copy and Paste. Facebook. Minnesota. Howling for Wolves. MVAP. Wolf Season. SF 2256 passed the Senate Environment Committee on March 11 and the Committee on State and Local Government on March 17, 2014. It now awaits a hearing in Senate Finance. 2014- Three bills deal with the MN wolf hunt SF 666/HF 1163 was introduced in 2013, is still alive in 2014, and it places a five-year moratorium on wolf hunting SF 2256/HF2680 suspends the wolf hunt in order to study outcomes of the wolf hunt on the wolf population and to implement the wolf management plan, including a wolf census, development of best management practices (including non-lethal methods) for livestock producers, and annual review by a task force representing a diverse group of stakeholders. This bill is supported by Howling for Wolves- more information here.
HF 2193 closes the wolf hunt on Indian reservations 2013- a bill to repeal the recreational hunting and trapping of wolves in Minnesota was introduced by Senator Eaton (Senate File 666) and Representative Isaacson (House File 1163). 2012-2013 Wolf Seasons. Northwoods Wolf Alliance. SS-Slocum. Wisconsin Wolf Front. Wolf Conservation Center.