Source: Timber Wolf News
By almost all accounts, after 12 years of trial and error, the government's Mexican wolf recovery program is a failure -- both biologically and politically.
"The program is in crisis," said Eva Sargent, Southwest program director for Defenders of Wildlife, one of several of groups that have closely monitored FWS's recovery efforts. "They need to figure out what they need to do, and do it quick."
"The program isn't working," said Erik Ness, a spokesman for the New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau, which has fought the government over its reintroduction efforts. "They'll never make ranchers happy, because they're feeding beef to these wolves."
But Benjamin Tuggle, FWS's Southwest regional director and top overseer of the recovery program, says the agency is determined to keep at it. "I kind of bristle when I hear the word failure," he said. "I know there are a lot of people who would like to believe we're failing, but I don't take that position. We're not backing off."
Read the rest of the article HERE.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Wolves Return to Colorado
This article is from 'High Country News'.
Officially, wild wolves do not live in Colorado. The nearest established population is in Wyoming, where gray wolves were introduced to Yellowstone National Park in 1995. But rumors of wolf sightings abound in Colorado, and in recent years, at least two wolves have died in the state. In 2004, a young radio-collared female wolf from Yellowstone was killed on Interstate 70 near Idaho Springs, about 30 miles west of Denver. In the winter of 2009, another young female collared wolf traveled a 1,000-mile-long route from the Yellowstone region to the Meeker, Colo., area, roughly 20 miles from where Eisenberg and her crew work.
Like most scientists, Eisenberg and her colleagues are cautious. For months, even among themselves, they half-jokingly spoke of "visitors from the North," reluctant to name a species as controversial as the gray wolf. They emphasize that DNA testing, now under way at a lab at the University of California, Los Angeles, is needed to back up their identification of the animal or animals that produced the scat and tracks. But whatever the animal is, it appears to be eating what wild wolves eat, and traveling over the landscape the way wild wolves do.
When wolves arrive in an ecosystem, everything changes: the ecology, the politics, relationships both animal and human. "We know more about wolves, and the management of wolves, than we do about many other forms of wildlife," says Douglas Smith, leader of the Yellowstone wolf project. "But we rarely get to put it into practice, because people freak out, flat-out freak out, when a wolf shows up."
Read the rest of the article HERE.
Officially, wild wolves do not live in Colorado. The nearest established population is in Wyoming, where gray wolves were introduced to Yellowstone National Park in 1995. But rumors of wolf sightings abound in Colorado, and in recent years, at least two wolves have died in the state. In 2004, a young radio-collared female wolf from Yellowstone was killed on Interstate 70 near Idaho Springs, about 30 miles west of Denver. In the winter of 2009, another young female collared wolf traveled a 1,000-mile-long route from the Yellowstone region to the Meeker, Colo., area, roughly 20 miles from where Eisenberg and her crew work.
Like most scientists, Eisenberg and her colleagues are cautious. For months, even among themselves, they half-jokingly spoke of "visitors from the North," reluctant to name a species as controversial as the gray wolf. They emphasize that DNA testing, now under way at a lab at the University of California, Los Angeles, is needed to back up their identification of the animal or animals that produced the scat and tracks. But whatever the animal is, it appears to be eating what wild wolves eat, and traveling over the landscape the way wild wolves do.
When wolves arrive in an ecosystem, everything changes: the ecology, the politics, relationships both animal and human. "We know more about wolves, and the management of wolves, than we do about many other forms of wildlife," says Douglas Smith, leader of the Yellowstone wolf project. "But we rarely get to put it into practice, because people freak out, flat-out freak out, when a wolf shows up."
Read the rest of the article HERE.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
IGive Promotion
Help us raise money to support our Wolf Educational Programs while you Search and as you Shop!
For each person who joins iGive using this special link and does just one web search on their site between now and 9AM Thursday, they'll give Shadowland Foundation Inc. a dollar.
Of course, the more you search (or buy something) the more money will be donated to Shadowland Foundation Inc. For each additional search we'll receive $.02 and a bonus $5 for your first purchase!
The special $1.00 per Search is only good until 9AM Thurs. Jan. 21st.
GO SEARCHING & SHOPPING Here Now.
Thanks for your support!
For each person who joins iGive using this special link and does just one web search on their site between now and 9AM Thursday, they'll give Shadowland Foundation Inc. a dollar.
Of course, the more you search (or buy something) the more money will be donated to Shadowland Foundation Inc. For each additional search we'll receive $.02 and a bonus $5 for your first purchase!
The special $1.00 per Search is only good until 9AM Thurs. Jan. 21st.
GO SEARCHING & SHOPPING Here Now.
Thanks for your support!
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Wolf Wisdom Talk
A true story chronicling the adventures of a wolf named Shadow, guiding us through her cancer.
Here a clip of the talk by clicking on the YouTube link to the upper-right.
Presented by: Colette Duvall, co-founder of Shadowland Foundation Inc.
Colette Duvall is a licensed Practioner and Ministerial Student for the International Centers for Spiritual Living from the NoHo Center for New Thought.
Shortly after meeting the love of her life, Paul Pondella, and adopting his beloved wolves, Shadow and Alaska, Shadow was diagnosed with an incurable, inoperable and untreatable soft tissue sarcoma on September 16, 2008 and given two months to live.
Together, inspired by Shadow's courage, the entire pack took a journey... first to the wild within. This Spiritual endeavor led them on a path of discovery unveiling brand new technology...Spiritual, Holistic and Medical.
Shadow is still with us today. Come meet her and hear this Inspirational Tale.
WHEN: March 10th.
TIME: 7:00pm
WHERE:
Center for Spiritual Living
Westlake Village
880 Hampshire Road, Suite W
Westlake Village, CA 91361
http://www.cslwestlake.org/
No RSVP Required
Friday, November 13, 2009
Times Square Ad
The hardest thing I have to do on a daily basis for shadowlandfoundation.org is hear about the wolf kills to date. We're up to 162 in Idaho and Montana. This doesn't even cout the hundreds in Alaska thanks to the "Rougue" herself. My spiritual practice says to see past the moment and vision what ought to be. I am happy to do that as I know that it makes a differnce in shifting the consciousness around the one that thinks it is necessary to destroy them even though science has proved the need for them. We are paying for the damage caused by their absence past and present, but I am convinced we will correct it for the future.
Please visit savewolves.org and help them produce their second ad to run in Time Square. It is helping make a huge dent in awareness of the situation.
Until next time, knowing only the best,
Colette, Paul, Shadow, Allie and Takoda
Please visit savewolves.org and help them produce their second ad to run in Time Square. It is helping make a huge dent in awareness of the situation.
Until next time, knowing only the best,
Colette, Paul, Shadow, Allie and Takoda
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
"A Howling Halloween" Great Success!
"A Howling Halloween" was such a great success. Our next event is scheduled for December 12th and it is so exciting for the dream to unfold. We here at Shadowland Foundation, Inc. call it Playing with Wolves, a Wolf Education Program for children of All ages because the connection to the childlike wild spirit within the adults is awakened by the connection and touch of these beautiful animals. The kids get it before they arrive, the adults re-discover it. Seeing the faces of all the children in the room as they get licked and kissed by those powerful tongues is remarkable and unforgetable and sheer bliss for us to provide and only natural for Shadow, Allie and Takoda to give.
I did just receive an outreach from the http://www.nrdc.org/ to sign a letter to Ken Salazar to stop the wolf hunt in Idaho and Montana before it's too late. They make it so easy to make a difference. Please log on and sign. It takes a community to go up against special interest. Just remember, these wolves belong to you. Your tax dollars re-instated them 13 years ago and has sustained the scientific research done to understand their contrubution to the environment. All of it could be shattered in a matter of months if allowed to continue; millions of dollars wasted, ecological recovery set back, and wolf packs...gone! It breaks my heart.
Please see them as we do, living long healthy productive, protected lives with mutual respect for each other.
Until next time. Paul, Colette, Shadow, Alaska and Takoda.
I did just receive an outreach from the http://www.nrdc.org/ to sign a letter to Ken Salazar to stop the wolf hunt in Idaho and Montana before it's too late. They make it so easy to make a difference. Please log on and sign. It takes a community to go up against special interest. Just remember, these wolves belong to you. Your tax dollars re-instated them 13 years ago and has sustained the scientific research done to understand their contrubution to the environment. All of it could be shattered in a matter of months if allowed to continue; millions of dollars wasted, ecological recovery set back, and wolf packs...gone! It breaks my heart.
Please see them as we do, living long healthy productive, protected lives with mutual respect for each other.
Until next time. Paul, Colette, Shadow, Alaska and Takoda.
Friday, October 30, 2009
A Howling Halloween is just in time so wolves don't run out of it!
Last chance for A Howling Halloween! Please come and bring your friends for this exciting day for all ages. This is an extraordinarily dangerous time for wolves in the country once again. Hunting season has been extended in Idaho and Montana to an unprecidected 7 months, since this is the first wolf hunt in decades. In just 4 days in Montana, almost 30 were shot and killed including tagged wolves that have contributed to science and study never before possible until 1996.
The Shadowland Foundation, Inc. is introducing our pack inorder to show you why the wolf is vital to our survival as human beings and their contribution to the environment. Please visit us www.shadowlandfoudation.org and Defenders of Wildlife www.savewolves.org and let them hear your voice. Just, FYI, these wolves belong to you, they have been reinstated with your tax dollars, they are on public land being hunted on behalf of private individuals for private gain.
In the meantime, hold these precious animals in your mind as safe and sound in their natual habitat and their pups happy and healthy in their dens.
The Shadowland Foundation, Inc. is introducing our pack inorder to show you why the wolf is vital to our survival as human beings and their contribution to the environment. Please visit us www.shadowlandfoudation.org and Defenders of Wildlife www.savewolves.org and let them hear your voice. Just, FYI, these wolves belong to you, they have been reinstated with your tax dollars, they are on public land being hunted on behalf of private individuals for private gain.
In the meantime, hold these precious animals in your mind as safe and sound in their natual habitat and their pups happy and healthy in their dens.
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