From Defenders.org, US Fish and Wildlife to place Northern Rockies wolves back on the endangered species list.

WASHINGTON - According to recent statements by senior U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) officials, FWS intends to rescind its own wolf delisting rule - issued in March - sometime this week. This will place the Northern Rockies gray ( Read more... )

I said I gave Thane a gold tooth, and I wasn't kidding. Here he is, looking even more badass than usual.


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McCain's new running mate is horrible in many ways. It is not the most offensive of her crimes against human decency, but her support for aerial hunting in Alaska is certainly revealing. She opposes measures that would end this barbaric practice, and last year, she proposed a bounty of $150, to be paid to anyone who brought in a wolf's left ( Read more... )

Sargon and I once took a training course at our zoo to become docents. We didn't finish, unfortunately, due to the fact that getting up at fuck-that-o'clock in the morning on a Saturday is not any fun at all, but we did see a lot of really nifty things ( Read more... )

I want to answer the "why werewolves" question briefly mentioned the other day, but to do it, I first need to talk about the symbolic significance of wolves. The two are inextricably linked, after all ( Read more... )

Underworld came out in September, 2003.

Note the spike in popularity of Lucian as a baby name around 2004.

Coincidence? I would like to think not.

That reminds me. I need to go sniff my jacket. Yeah. I haven't done that in a while ( Read more... )

This is a bit . . . explicit, so I'm putting it under a cut. I'm hoping we have a vet or vet tech around who can answer this question satisfactorily.

( Oh, no, she didn't just ask that. )

This is why we need to sustain federal protections on the Northern Rockies wolf -- without healthy populations across entire states, wolves cannot branch out to recolonize their former habitat. Here is a sign of progress, and what we can expect if the protections are allowed to remain.

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Biologists confirm first breeding wolf pack in Oregonby ( Read more... )

Holy shit, guys!

We won!

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Judge restores protection for Rockies wolves

By MATTHEW BROWN, Associated Press Writer
Sat Jul 19, 12:36 AM ET

A federal judge has restored endangered species protections for gray wolves in the Northern Rockies, derailing plans by three states to hold public wolf hunts this fall.

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The Bush/Cheney administration has officially stripped the northern Rockies gray wolf from the endangered species list.Without this federal protection, the wolves are left to state management. Under current state law, 70-80% of the wild wolves in Greater Yellowstone and the northern Rockies could be killed. That's 1,200 animals out of 1,500, ( Read more... )