Gray Wolf Survival

The gray wolf is one of the world’s most well known and well researched animals with more documentation on them than any other wildlife species. It is a canid whose main habitats are in the wilderness of remote areas in North America, Eurasia and North Africa. It is the largest member of the wolf family, usually weighing between 70 and 120 lbs, and closely resembles in general appearance and proportions to a modern day breed of dog known as the German Sheppard, although they typically have a larger head, narrower chest, longer legs, straighter tails and bigger paws. The narrow chest of the gray wolf allows for swift and efficient movement through the common elements of their environment such as snow, brush and other conditions. Their larger heads indicate their higher level of intelligence and their large paws, webbed with fur aid in movement across mud and snow. The colour of a gray wolf’s fur lives up to its name and is predominantly a mottled gray although the gray wolf can also have fur that is nearly pure white, mixes of red, brown, or black. Being very social animals, gray wolves do mostly everything in packs of 2 – 15 animals; living, traveling and hunting. They can hunt and feed off smaller game, yet with their large pack size, they can work collectively to bring down large game such as deer, moose or bison. There are 37 recognized subspecies of the gray wolf in total ranging across six continents with familiar names that one

This so-called balanced view was presented in a program in which the “most misrepresented issues concerned the economic impact of wolves. Ranchers were allowed to claim unsubstantiated losses, with no attempt to validate the accuracy of these claims” (Laverty, par. 2). In granting the balanced view sought by the legislature, the “program portrayed the salt of the earth rancher as a poor victim of the federal government’s whim to restore the ‘killers’” (Laverty, par. 2).

It's a cold December night on the ranch, and you are slowly drifting off to sleep, when a sudden howl brings a shiver up your spine. You look out your window and see a Gray Wolf, the snow caresing its soft, eligant face, beautiful. When morning comes you go out to your livestock pen, one dead, that could cost you up to $20,000, that beautiful creature no longer seems so beautiful. In 1995, on accord of the Endangered Species Act, the Gray Wolf was introduced to Yellowstone National Park, Since then the ecosystem has flourished and more animals have come, rivers are not caving, trees are blooming and more plants are growing and tourism has exploded. So was wolf reintroduction really a good thing.

The gray wolf are a great type of animal with ancestry you wouldnt think they had. The wolves is what made to be the domestic dogs of now. Fish back then being now a ground walking soecies. They were small and evolved to being big.

The cause of the local big game population dropping isn’t because animals are not reproducing. It is because wolves are killing too many big game animals and killing the ecosystem of the North Western United States. The population of Mule Deer in SouthEastern Idaho was cut in half in only 8 years, from 1995 to 2003 (IFG, 2006). What caused this sudden decline? Wolves did. Deer are not the only species suffering. Elk populations are seriously struggling to keep their numbers up. Wolves are killing them too fast and elk cannot keep up.

Farmers don’t want wolves in their property because they are having fear about protection of their livestock. Their stance is understandable but their revenge on against gray wolves is too harsh. According to PBS, During a fifteen year period, because of natural cause like bad weather, killed 20000 to 100000 of livestock and only less than 5000 of livestocks killed because of wolves. But more than 1000 of wolves were killed for their revenge. This harsh attitude towards wolves is leading to killing all of the gray wolves like starting anti-wolf campaign. However, wolves are useful for the eco system. Even the gray wolves have important role to balancing the eco system, many people (in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho) do not want wolves and don’t see their importance. Most of time, the Federal government usually feels the duty to decide what is right with total widespread opposition. But the state government try to listen the people’s wishes. For this reason, Federal government and State government has difficulty to work together. But in my opinion, When different levels of government have different audiences and different priorities, it has a strong point of them to collaborate. The conflict between the different levels of government will make to come up with a better and best solution. In this case, without the Federal government , many species would already be extinct.

yellowstone. yellowstone used to be wolves natural territory. they beautful cry of the wolf at the the mid night moon. the natural pray.wolves are beautiful natural creatures that love and take care of each other. Also make sure eachother are happy and full. people say that wolves are so bad but really whos worse human or wolves. the wolves were balancing the econemy. then humans were scared that the wolves would get all their livestock, so they killed them all. wolves rarely attack humans and we made them extict in yellowstone. so you tell me who's worse wolf or humans? You decide.

The relocation of wolves to Yellowstone National Park is a bad thing. The wolves are gray, they have fangs, and they are very vicious, and fierce. They live in Yellowstone National Park, where the forest is. The way wolves eat is by hunting in packs. They are on the endangered species list because people sometimes hunt for wolves instead of hunting for deer or elk. A lot of wolves died from people hunting them and that’s why wolves are on the endangered species list. Wolves can also get very dangerous and evil if anything gets in their way, and that’s why the relocation of wolves is basically a bad thing.

The grey wolf also known as the timber wolf or wolf is a mammal of the order Carnivore. Genetic studies indicate the grey wolf shares a common ancestry with the domestic dog and might be its ancestor. Many other grey wolf subspecies have been identified however the actual number of subspecies is still open to discussion. Though once abundant over much of North America and areas of Europe and Asia, the grey wolf inhabits a very small portion of its former range because of the widespread destruction of its habitat. Gray wolves are highly adaptable and have thrived in forests, deserts, mountains, tundra and grasslands. They function as social predators and hunt in packs organized according to strict social hierarchies. It was originally believed

Though once abundant over much of Eurasia and North America, the gray wolf inhabits a very small portion of its former range because of widespread destruction of its territory, human encroachment, and the resulting human-wolf encounters that sparked broad extirpation. Even so, the gray wolf is regarded as being of least concern for extinction according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, when the entire gray wolf population is considered as a whole. Today, wolves are protected in some areas, hunted for sport in others, or may be subject to extermination as perceived threats to livestock and pets.

The Gray Wolf have had an interesting history of evolution. It is a native to the location of Eurasia and North America. It evolved from the Canis species by its larger size and less pointed features. Its Binomial name is Canis Lupus. It is the only one of its species to have range encompassing new and old worlds of the wolf. The gray world is one of the most researched animals. Also it is one of the best known

The government offers livestock ranchers public land for a significantly decreased price. In the process, wild life in the United States is a casualty of animal agriculture. Several thousands of wild horses are grouped together and run out of their habitat into burros and government facilities. Wolves, bears, coyotes, and mountain lions are trapped, shot, and brutally killed just for living in their natural environment. This wild life is being destroyed for live stock

Within the past 70 years native wolves had made a big impact on the ecosystem due to their non-existence. However, their reintroduction had many effect of such local ecosystems. In order to restore and maintain a healthy ecosystem after such a long period of absence, bringing the wolves back into their ecosystem took some time through interacting between other wolves and animals in order to maintain a healthy ecosystem. During these times of transitioning, the abundant effect it had on the ecosystem was reciprocal changes during the various levels in food chain along with the different trophic levels. Wolves are known to be the top predator to the ecosystem, so imagine what was left of the ecosystem when they were non-existence. Due to their

The raven, eagle, and crow populations are growing due to the leftovers of the wolves.

The gray wolves ingigenous to Oregon were eradicated in the 1940's because they menaced livestock. In 1973 the endangered species act was passed by congress and the grey wolf was desighned an an endangered species. In 1999, Oregon saw it's first wolf pups were born in the state. On November 9, 2015 the state delisted the gray wolf claiming breeding guidelines had been reached.