CSI: Mexican Wolf Experimental Population Area.

The Wolf Conservation Center hosted Greta Anderson of Western Watersheds Project on March 27, 2024 for a webinar discussing the impact of secretive federal agencies on Mexican gray wolf recovery.
Greta talks about the yearslong efforts to retrieve, understand, and expose the inadequacies (and fallacies) of livestock depredation reports by USDA's Wildlife Services. This effort led to reform in the agencies and a subsequent decline in reports of Mexican gray wolf predation on livestock, leading also to fewer wolf removals for conflict with livestock.
Greta's presentation walks the public through examples of these investigations, the causes and consequences of faulty reporting, and the ongoing efforts to ensure Mexican gray wolves aren't being unfairly blamed for livestock deaths.
Content warning: the presentation includes graphic images of wounded and killed livestock
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Greta has worked with Western Watersheds Project since 2007. She has degrees in geography and ethnobotany, a background in traditional herbalism, and has a deep interest in issues of social and environmental justice. She lives on the lands of the Tohono O'Odham people in what is now called Tucson, Arizona. www.westernwatersheds.org/
ABOUT THE WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER
The Wolf Conservation Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit environmental education organization committed to conserving wolf populations in North America through science-based education programming and participation in the federal Saving Animals From Extinction (SAFE) Programs for the critically endangered Mexican gray wolf and red wolf. The WCC's mission is to advance the survival of wolves by inspiring a global community through education, advocacy, research, and recovery.
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[@shadowwolf1355]

Fascinating presentation. The article recommended was an intense story.
Ernest Thomas Seaton was a complex yet important figure to the environmental movement. While he killed Blanca and was responsible for Lobo"s death, he regretted it and wrote the book 'Wild Animals I have Known'. The 1st chapter is dedicated to Lobo.
He also was a co-founder of the Boy Scouts and advocated for Native Americans as well.
I would also check out the BBC/Nature documentary 'Lobo: The Wolf That Changed America'. And 'The Legend of Lobo' by Disney.
Non lethal methods thankfully help prevent livestock issues through: Cattle rotation, fladry, range riders, electric fencing, livestock protection dogs.
Livestock issues are rare and killing wolves doesn't solve it but exasperates it and leaves more wolves dead.
Thanks WWP, Center of Biological Diversity and WWC for helping to protect the Lobo.

[@jessicalocke9943]

This was great, thank you for the education! ❤ sadly this subject is not known to all that criticize wolf (red &/or grey) reintroduction. Livestock grazing kills our public lands, flora & fauna.

[@Raylene52]

Great info very interesting

[@loucar155]

Thanks for the amazing opportunity to learn.

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[@StarHorder]

This is extremely important work.

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Now, this has 666 views. Hope nothing bad happens.

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May Allah bless you all.’

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[@kenwilliams5895]

How does the $1.35 grazing fee on public lands compare to what would ?be charged on comparable private lands