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My life as a wolf, by British naturalist who dared to infiltrate a pack in the wilderness
By Shaun Ellis
The huge wolf's fangs hovered over my neck. I was frozen to the spot, waiting for his jaw to clamp around my throat - and bring instant death.
It didn't happen. Instead, the young male with him gave me a gentler nip on my knee while the older male knocked me over. As I fell, I put a hand out to steady myself and found it resting on the pup's shoulder.
He didn't pull away. In that split second, I was overcome by an incredible surge of love for this creature and his family, and an overpowering need to be part of it.
Shaun Ellis and wolf Read Full Article |
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Today, three organizations filed a lawsuit concerning wolves in southeastern Alaska. It was filed in U.S. District Court (Anchorage, Alaska), and asks the court to set aside the Forest Service's decision to proceed with the Logjam timber project and to set an injunction against proceeding with that project or its Diesel Timber Sale.
The Logjam would log 73 million board feet of old-growth timber on Prince of Wales Island, in Alaska's Tongass National Forest. The Tongass is a temperate coastal rainforest.
3D maps, a press release, and a copy of the complaint can be found at: http://greenpeace.org/logjam
The plaintiffs are the Tongass Conservation Society, Cascadia Wildlands, and Greenpeace. |
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Judge faults removal of wolf from endangered list |
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Wed Sep 9
BILLINGS, Mont. – Hunters can keep stalking gray wolves for now in the Northern Rockies, but the killing may be short-lived after a federal judge found problems with the recent removal of the animal from the endangered species list.
In a ruling late Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy denied a request by environmentalists and animal welfare groups to stop the hunts in Idaho and Montana — the first organized wolf hunts in the lower 48 states in decades.
Plans to kill more than 20 percent of the estimated 1,350 wolves in the two states would not cause long-term harm to the species, Molloy said.
The ruling, however, left unresolved the broader question of whether wolves should be returned to the federal endangered list. Full Story |
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