

When I joined Jim at Wolf Camp in the winter of 1993, he would tell me many stories about his early years with the Sawtooth Pack. One account that stands out was how a mountain lion killed the omega wolf and how the pack reacted to this loss.
This past summer, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game proposed extending the legal time for a trapper to check wolf snares from 72 hours to eight days. Designed to encourage more killing of wolves, this proposed rule could leave an animal to suffer for…
To encourage the public to kill more wolves, in spring of 2017 Idaho proposed introducing a wolf-baiting season. Much like the unethical practice of bear-baiting, wolf-baiting allows people to establish baiting sites, which they regularly…
This month, the Journal of Mammalogy published a collection of articles criticizing the current structure of lethal control of predators, including wolves. The number of carnivores killed annually is staggering. Nearly 69,000 coyotes and 400…
Discover the hidden behavior of wolves from filmmakers Jim and Jamie Dutcher, who studied and lived with the Sawtooth wolf pack in Idaho for almost a decade….