Article 12
Famous Wolf is Killed Outside Yellowstone
Topic: Animal Death
Author: Nate Schweber
Date: December 8, 2012
This article informs the reader about a famous wolf's death outside Yellowstone National Park. She was shot and killed outside the park's boundaries. The wolf is known as 832F to researchers and she was the the alpha female of the park’s highly visible Lamar Canyon pack and had become so well known that some wildlife watchers referred to her as a “rock star.” She had been a tourist favorite for most of the past six years. Her $4,000 collar with GPS tracking technology was then returned. This year’s hunting season in the northern Rockies has been especially controversial because of the high numbers of popular wolves and wolves fitted with research collars that have been killed just outside Yellowstone in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. Wolf hunts, sanctioned by recent federal and state rules applying to the northern Rockies, have been fiercely debated in the region. The wolf population has rebounded since they were reintroduced in the mid-1990s to counter their extirpation a few years earlier. Many ranchers and hunters say the wolf hunts are a reasonable way to reduce attacks on livestock and protect big game populations.Wildlife advocates say that the wolf populations are not large enough to withstand state-sanctioned harvests and that the animals attract tourist money.
I decided to choose this article because it reminded of the very first topic that we covered in AP Environmental Science class: The Coyote Removal in Texas.The reason why the wolf was killed was the same reason why coyotes were being hunted in Texas:reduce attacks on livestock and protect big game populations. It is very interesting to know that the topics we have learned in that class can actually happen to the outside world and I have the knowledge to understand the consequences of the result. In addition, the death of many wolves due to hunting will eventually affect the wolves' population as a whole and reduce them.
Topic: Animal Death
Author: Nate Schweber
Date: December 8, 2012
This article informs the reader about a famous wolf's death outside Yellowstone National Park. She was shot and killed outside the park's boundaries. The wolf is known as 832F to researchers and she was the the alpha female of the park’s highly visible Lamar Canyon pack and had become so well known that some wildlife watchers referred to her as a “rock star.” She had been a tourist favorite for most of the past six years. Her $4,000 collar with GPS tracking technology was then returned. This year’s hunting season in the northern Rockies has been especially controversial because of the high numbers of popular wolves and wolves fitted with research collars that have been killed just outside Yellowstone in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. Wolf hunts, sanctioned by recent federal and state rules applying to the northern Rockies, have been fiercely debated in the region. The wolf population has rebounded since they were reintroduced in the mid-1990s to counter their extirpation a few years earlier. Many ranchers and hunters say the wolf hunts are a reasonable way to reduce attacks on livestock and protect big game populations.Wildlife advocates say that the wolf populations are not large enough to withstand state-sanctioned harvests and that the animals attract tourist money.
I decided to choose this article because it reminded of the very first topic that we covered in AP Environmental Science class: The Coyote Removal in Texas.The reason why the wolf was killed was the same reason why coyotes were being hunted in Texas:reduce attacks on livestock and protect big game populations. It is very interesting to know that the topics we have learned in that class can actually happen to the outside world and I have the knowledge to understand the consequences of the result. In addition, the death of many wolves due to hunting will eventually affect the wolves' population as a whole and reduce them.