September 7, 2012

Wolves

Two curious stories -- first from the UK Guardian:
Climate change insight gleaned from Yellowstone wolves
Scientists studying grey wolves in Yellowstone national park have developed a method to predict how animals will respond to climate change.

The discoveries gleaned from the study, published on Thursday in Science, could eventually help scientists discover which animals are more resilient to climate change � and which would be at most immediate risk of extinction.
Risk of extinction? Somebody better tell these people -- from FOX News:
Federal government ending wolf protections in Wyoming
Visitors to Yellowstone National Park on almost any given day can glimpse packs of wolves and hear their iconic howls, thanks to a yearslong effort to revive the species that once neared extinction in the United States.

It's an effort the federal government has determined to be so successful that wolves no longer need special protections to ensure their survival in Wyoming -- the state officials chose in the mid-1990s for reintroducing the predator to the Northern Rocky Mountains.

"The wolf population in Wyoming is recovered, and it is appropriate that the responsibility for wolf management be returned to the state," Gov. Matt Mead said Friday after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced it will end the protections in most of Wyoming and entrust the state with managing their numbers.
Another example of science done at a desk instead of science being done out in the field. Computer models are all well and good but they need to be fact-checked to insure that they model reality and not a political agenda. Posted by DaveH at September 7, 2012 9:37 PM
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