As most of us know, coyotes are fantastically adaptable – they can live almost anywhere they can find food – and ‘coyote food’ is nearly every- and any- thing small…
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Beavers and Wolves: A Follow-up
Your point about abandoned ponds is spot on, and that is precisely what we do see in Voyageurs. Most wetlands in the area are not occupied by beavers. For instance,…
Lions and Tigers? No, Beavers and Wolves
“Wolves (Canis lupus) and beavers co-occur across most boreal ecosystems in North America and Eurasia. Wolves are the primary predator of beavers wherever the two species co-occur, and beavers are…
The Gray, Gray World of Wolves
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Carl Zimmer of the New York Times gives us this story: DNA Study Reveals the One and Only Wolf Species in North America. “The…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #595
“Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.” — James Wilson (1790)
Specious Species
We are constantly bombarded by news about “species” – Endangered Species, Threatened Species, Vanishing Species, Loss of Species such as “Researchers estimate that the current rate of species loss varies…
Interesting News Items
Over the last few days there have been a few interesting general news items touching on topics that I have covered here in the past: Wolves, Oroville Dam, Great Salt…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #577
Nobody’s honest. Scientists are not honest. And people usually believe that they are. That makes it worse. By honest I don’t mean that you only tell what’s true. But you…
Kill Them to Save Them
“The puppies of a wolf that has mated with a domestic dog must be tracked down and shot, Bavarian authorities said.”
No, children, the Monarch Butterfly is Not Endangered
Monarchs are officially, even by the overly cautious IUCN, considered to be of Least Concern of being endangered or going extinct.
A True Shaggy Dog Story
The brilliant zoologist and “bone whisperer” Susan J. Crockford has a new paper just published in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.
Illegal Immigration? Coyotes Move North, East, and South
Study review by Kip Hansen This essay is about coyotes! One of the odd things about this blog — WUWT — is the broad range of interests of the…
Darwin — We’ve Got a Problem
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Biology has a ‘new’ problem: Speciation Reversal. One recent paper on the topic declares: “We argue that extinction by speciation reversal may be more…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #305
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President Group Think: Author and journalist Christopher Booker has produced an extensive booklet…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #235
The Week That Was: 2016-08-06 (August 6, 2016) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy…
Best Extinction Prevention Plan? Quit Killing Them
An example of Killing to Extinction is the near-miss demise of the Northern elephant seal of California. If you haven’t seen a male elephant seal the wild, you have really…