October 1, 2009
New blog entry, on “Blog2” page: The importance of young wolves in caring for pups.
August 18, 2009
New blog entry, on “Blog2” page: Wolves with pups open to hunting inside Denali National Park on September 1: Two key points.
August 16, 2009
New blog entry, on “Blog2” page: Wolves with pups open to hunting inside Denali National Park on September 1.
July 23, 2009
New blog entry, on new “Blog2” page: Raising pups cooperatively.
June 9, 2009
New report on Reports2 page, covering the last two biological years (May 2007-April 2008, May 2008-April 2009) of my wolf research in Denali National Park and Preserve.
May 1, 2009
New blog entry: Energizing for the hunt.
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March 29, 2009
New blog entry: Alaska’s wolf-bear killing programs 5: Science and biologists awry.
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March 18-19, 2009
New blog entry (March 19): Biological problems with delisting and hunting wolves.
New blog entry (March 18): Field notes from Denali.
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February 13, 2009
New blog entry: Denali wolf update.
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January 30, 2009
New blog entry: Wild Hunters 6: Winter caribou hunt.
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January 27, 2009
New blog entry: Denali wolf update.
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January 18, 2009
New blog entry: State land transfers threaten Denali National Park.
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January 9, 2009
New blog entry: National Park Service support for expanded protection of Denali wolves?
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December 23, 2008
New blog entry: Winter 2008-09 wolf-trapping losses begin along Denali boundary.
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November 18, 2008
New blog entry: Reply to biologists’ opposition to protecting Denali wolves; trapline set along park boundary.
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October 29, 2008
New blog entry: Denali wolves threatened again by trapping.
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October 16, 2008
New blog entry: Wild Hunters 5: Projecting flight paths.
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October 4, 2008
New blog entry: Abrupt awakening.
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October 1, 2008
New blog entry: Wild Hunters 4: Toklat adults take the pups hare hunting.
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September 22, 2008
New blog entry: Late summer pup activities.
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August 28, 2008
New blog entry: Going with the flow.
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August 9, 2008
New blog entry: Growing wolf pups.
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July 17, 2008
New blog entry: Alaska’s Wolf Control Programs 4. Biologists raid dens, kill adults and young pups in new program.
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June 24, 2008
New blog entry: A new biological year.
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June 17, 2008
New blog entry: Toklat’s high value.
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May 10, 2008
New blog entry: Another buffer around the buffer?
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May 3, 2008
New blog entry: Update: Snare removed from Denali wolf.
New photos on this page and the Reports page.
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April 20, 2008
New blog entry: Snared wolves return to Denali injured, underscoring the need for expanded protection.
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April 8, 2008
New blog entry: Wolf pair bonds
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March 15, 2008
New blog entry: Alaska’s Wolf Control Programs 3. The siren song of “managing for abundance.”
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March 9, 2008
New blog entry: Alaska’s Wolf Control Programs 2. ADF&G biologists to shoot wolves from helicopters in a new wolf-killing program.
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March 8, 2008
New blog entry: Wolf howling
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March 1, 2008
New blog entry: Another Denali wolf-trapping loss and continuing high risks for the Toklat wolves; a call to action.
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February 18, 2008
New blog entry: Alaska’s Wolf Control Programs 1 (first of a series).
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February 7, 2008
On the Reports2 page, I appended higher quality copies of Figures 1-3 to the December 2007 paper, “Wolf Foraging and Related Social Variations in Denali National Park” (the graphics in the PDF file that the journal provided to me are of poor quality and cannot be improved). Figure 1 is on the first of the appended pages, Figure 2 (3 maps) the next three pages, and Figure 3 the last page. Zoom these in or out (with the PDF zoom control) to get the desired sharpness and size.
February 4, 2008
New blog entry: Update on continuing trapping and hunting problems for Denali wolves.
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February 3, 2008
New blog entry: Wild Hunters 3: Toklat’s shift to hares.
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January 23, 2008
New blog entry: More setbacks for Denali wolves.
January 19, 2008
1. New blog entry: Biological costs of killing wolves.
2. New paper on Reports2 page: “Wolf foraging and related social variations in Denali National Park,” published in Alaska Park Science 6(2): 73-77 (December 2007). This issue of APS consists of a selection of papers arising from the Central Alaska Park Science Symposium, convened by the National Park Service at Denali National Park, September 12-14, 2006. My paper was in the Landscape and Wildlife Ecology session of the Symposium.
December 2, 2007
New blog entry: Followup on missing Lower Savage wolves (Nov 14 entry), two more park groups that may have been decimated in the same area of adjacent state lands within the past few weeks, the Toklat (East Fork) group’s recent travels there, and arguments as to why the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and Alaska Board of Game should take immediate remedial action.
November 14, 2007
New blog entry: Lower Savage wolves missing. Recommendation for protecting Denali wolves from shooting and trapping in the northeast park boundary area.
November 9, 2007
New blog entry: Mid biological year summary of the status of the Denali wolf study groups.
October 13, 2007
New blog entry: Wild Hunters 2
September 10, 2007
1. New report, on Reports2 page: “Denali wolf research, May 2006-April 2007.” Annual report provided to the National Park Service. Refer to this report often, to better interpret updates and other material that I will add about the Denali study groups fairly regularly. Print the report only in color, otherwise Figures 1-2 won’t make any sense.
Note especially the section on Toklat (pp. 3-9), the famous group that was hit hard by trapping and shooting in 2005. Toklat’s situation may turn out to be a classic example of how deceptive numbers and reproductive success alone can be as a measure of the biological impacts of human killing on a highly social species (see also “Biological, Conservation, and Ethical Implications of Exploiting and Controlling Wolves” (Reports page).
2. New blog entry: Wild Hunters 1 (first of a series).
August 24, 2007
Site opens.
Blog entry: Wolf pups without a future?
Updates
The Swift West West (Tonzona) pair rests on a 5,000 ft (1,524 m) ridge near 20,320 ft (6,194 m) Denali and other spectacular mountains in the heart of the Alaska Range, April 2008. A Swift West female joined a male just to the west to form this pair in late winter 2006-07. Denali wolves routinely travel high ridges and mountains. A wolf was once observed at 17,000 ft (5,182 m) on Denali itself.
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