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Sunset at Forest Lodge

Forest Lodge Educational Campus

Nestled among old growth forest, this unique north woods retreat is situated along two-plus miles of Lake Namekagon’s pristine southern shoreline….

Timber Wolf Alliance Coordinator Jordyn O'Gara

O’Gara ’18 Named Timber Wolf Alliance Coordinator

Wolf Awareness Week Events October 23, 25, 26

…her research triangulating wolf locations through howl surveys—a method she says is as precise as telemetry. She is the co-author on articles related to her research on wolf howls and the gray fox. She’s also working on a natural history note with wolf biologist Ron Schultz. Their note focuses on…

Timber Wolf Alliance

At the start of the Timber Wolf Alliance, 1987, only 18 wolves were estimated to live in Wisconsin and fewer in Upper Michigan. That year, the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute began the Timber Wolf Alliance assisting twenty-one organizations and many private individuals interested in promoting wolf recovery in Wisconsin and…

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TWA Responds to State Bill 602/AB712

…habitat—has the following concerns about this bill: 1) Discontinuing Wolf Population Data Gathering: Since the fall of 1979, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has continuously monitored the state’s wolf population. This longitudinal database has been essential for wolf conservation planning and management, including the establishment of wolf hunting and…

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Timber Wolf Alliance Teacher Resources

At the start of the Timber Wolf Alliance, 1987, only 18 wolves were estimated to live in Wisconsin and fewer in Upper Michigan. That year, the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute began the Timber Wolf Alliance assisting twenty-one organizations and many private individuals interested in promoting wolf recovery in Wisconsin and…

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Wolf Conservation in America’s National Parks

…of national parks during his presidency, called the wolf “the beast of waste and destruction”. Following what was then the publically accepted practice; in 1926 an NPS employee shot what was believed the last wolf in Yellowstone for nearly seven decades. Extermination of wolves across the West was complete by…

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Tug of War Over Wolves

…in the past year and has one currently under review—three on wolves and one on Eurasian milfoil. He teaches wolf ecology and management courses, and is providing faculty support to the Timber Wolf Alliance. Olson’s interest took hold as an undergraduate at UW-Stevens Point where he learned an intriguing and…

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Doug Smith: Lessons from Yellowstone

wolf packs. Wolf density in northern Yellowstone reached some of the highest levels recorded. This density led to many wolves being killed by other wolves. Each year (excluding disease to pups) wolf-wolf killing was the leading cause of mortality. This is unlike wolves that live in human dominated landscapes, where…

TWA Wolf Awareness Week poster by Bateman

TWA Selects Artwork for 2018 Wolf Awareness Week Poster

Canadian Artist Robert Bateman Featured

The Timber Wolf Alliance has selected Sierra Evening—Mexican Wolf by Canadian artist Robert Bateman for the 2018 Wolf Awareness Week poster, to be released later this year. This is Bateman’s second time as the featured artist; his painting, New Territory, was chosen for the 2008 poster. The Mexican Wolf was…

Adrian Wydeven

Wolf Biologist Adrian Wydeven to Head Timber Wolf Alliance

…Natural Resources as a wildlife biologist earlier this year after over thirty-two years working for the agency, and served on the Timber Wolf Alliance advisory council since 1990. He headed up the Wisconsin wolf recovery program that included intense monitoring of the state wolf population from 1990 through 2013. Northland…