In other wolf news

[Dougfirtree]

Gardiner naturalist and biologist Nathan Varley, who runs the Yellowstone Wolf Tracker guiding service, said skittish wolves are his biggest concern and a worst-case scenario for his business.

“Wolves that survive hunting events, they quickly learn that there’s survival value in avoiding humans,” Varley said. “And we’ve relied extensively on wolves that do not have that













Hold on, we'll get ya a whambulance.

Kind of ironic how similar he sounds to the hunting guides who complained about the growing wolf population and its impact on their livlihood. Sometimes I think that every person who makes their living directly from some natural resource should have to recite a pledge, at the beginning of their career: "I understand that natural conditions change and I may need to adapt to them. I recognize that the health of the resource comes before the health of my business."