Grizzly and Wolf Center at West Yellowstone

I was able to visit the Grizzly and Wolf Center in West Yellowstone, Montana. 

It was a great experience for me to learn more about wolves and the species that they interact within their natural ecosystems. 

Yellowstone National Park

I spent my summer at Yellowstone National Park for 3 months working as an SCA (Student Conservation Association) Intern with the Youth Conservation Program. There, I got the chance to see a lot of wildlife, and also some wolves.

                  

Wolf Hollow Review

Wolf Hollow Ipswich, MA

About 2 years ago, I made a trip to Wolf Hollow in Massachusetts. There you got to see wolves just couple feet away from you and the people working with these wolves would tell you the history of wolves in New England, the behavior these wolves exhibit and recorded first hand, and also the storyline behind the wolves in the pack. It was a great opportunity to learn more about wolves and see them so up close. The program provided an amazing experience where the audience got to howl at the wolves and have the wolves howl back, and great handmade souvenirs. My favorite was a necklace with a small jar of wolf fur. Each jar necklace had different wolf's fur, from the pack that I met from the program. I treasured it very much, and I think it is a one of a kind souvenir as a gift to yourself or anyone who loves wolves.

I recommend anyone to go to this place, and experience the thrill of seeing a gray wolf.

Wolf in Madison, NH

"She lives near Big Pea Porridge Pond on the Madison/Conway town line and not far from Tasker Hill Road in Conway.
She said at the corner of Big Loop Road and Eidelweiss Drive there is a den." Written on December 4, 2014.


Is this true? What do you think?


Read the full article:

http://www.wmur.com/escape-outside/is-the-wolf-back-in-nh-possible-sighting-reported-in-madison/30157336

http://www.city-data.com/city/Madison-New-Hampshire.html
Right Next to the White Mountains National Forest!

How to Identify Wolf Paw Prints

There is a simple way for you to recognize a wolf track from other animals. Coyotes and large dogs have similar paw prints, so it could be easy to mix them up. If you find a paw print on a walk and you think it might belong to a wolf, grab two straight sticks off the ground. Place one across the print diagonally, and the other stick from the opposite direction, and if it forms a perfect X, then you have a wolf print. Usually, you can tell that it's a wolf print because of its size alone. A wolf paw print would usually be as large as your hand. Also, unlike a cat print, dog prints have their claw imprint visible, and has 2 lobed pads while cats have 3 lobed pads.

As you can see in this picture, wolf prints are much larger, and they are perfectly symmetrical, unlike a dog print or a coyote print. Post any tracks you think it might be a wolf's in the comment section below!

Picture Credit:http://fwp.mt.gov/fishAndWildlife/management/wolf/wolfCoyote.html

Coywolves?

Is it a wolf or a coyote? Coywolves appeared near the Canadian borders of the Eastern United States, as a cross species between wolves and coyotes. It is currently called the Eastern Coyote but it has too much of the native wolf genetics to be called just a coyote. If you wish to know more about this interesting species, please visit http://www.easterncoyoteresearch.com/

Q&A With Doug Smith

Doug Smith has been my role model for as long as I can remember, and his work with the reintroduction of wolves was very encouraging for the ecologists here in new England area who wants to bring wolves back.
This video is a Q&A session where Doug explains the importance of wolves in Yellowstone's ecology, and the advantages of having wolves around. He also talks about the behavior of these wolves and how it affects the prey population of Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, and I think all of these information  that he provided for us could be implemented on the project of reintroducing wolves back to the Northeast, and hopefully educate some of us out there who are uncertain about having wolves in their backyards.

Wolf Sighting!

My dad called this morning to tell me this exciting news: A friend of his caught a sight of 6 doglike figures near the high way in Plymouth, New Hampshire. This town is right under White Mountain National Forest, so it is very likely that he might see some wild animals there. My dad's friend is a hunter so he is very familiar with what a coyote looks like, and he said that they were too big to be a coyote. I wish he had taken picture of them but he was on his way to work and he was on a high way...


I do have second thoughts about this because from what I know, the wolves in the east are the timber wolves, and unlike the gray wolves in the west, they are considerably smaller. Maybe these travelled from the west and not from Canada (crazy thought)??? I just can't get my hopes down... Keep your eyes open when you are near Plymouth, New Hampshire!

History of wolves in Rhode Island

Robert A. Geake wrote this opinionated article on February of 2014 about wolves in Rhode Island. This article organizes wolf/human interaction in Providence, Rhode Island similar to a timeline. He mentions several detailed descriptions to illustrate what it was like back then. He is also the local historian, so I'd say he's pretty credible.


http://m.providencejournal.com/article/20140207/OPINION/302079919

Introduction

Hello,
I will be posting information on the wolf population in New England, and hopefully post some new sightings and updates on how the fight for re-introduction of wolves are going.

Following the Yellowstone National Park's Reintroduction of Wolves Project as an example, as they have successfully reintroduced wolves back into their native habitat in the west, New England area should also make more effort to plan and bring back the wolves. This land was their's first, so it is only right that we give them back.

Those wolves who were exterminated from the North East are still roaming the border between Canada and the U.S. just waiting for a chance to come back into the American forests. Efforts should be made to give them a push so that they can come back safely, and not let the hunters and farmers hide behind "oh, I thought they were coyotes because wolves don't exist out here" excuse.

Just a small interest in this issue should be all it takes to begin this new movement. Hopefully, this blog can help some of you out there to start taking interest in reintroducing the wolves in New England forests!