{"id":1529,"date":"2009-09-02T10:25:59","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T14:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2009-09-02T10:25:59","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T14:25:59","slug":"the-silving-lining-to-wolf-hunts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=1529","title":{"rendered":"The Silving Lining to Wolf Hunts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Environmentalists are upset<\/a> that wolves can now be legally hunted in Idaho and Montana. Michael Hutchins provides some necessary context<\/a> to this emotional issue:<\/p>\n

There is no doubt that some individuals and organizations will have a difficult time shifting from a mindset\u00a0where wolves are rare creatures that need every protection to one where wolves are common and can become pests.\u00a0 To quote a\u00a02005 article by Jim Robbins in Conservation in Practice<\/em> (October-December: 28-34), “In the wake of successful wolf reintroductions, managers who once fervently defended wolves are now faced with killing them. Are we ready for modern predator management?”\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hutchins then points to a similar “transition” that had take place when the alligator population rebounded in Florida.<\/p>\n

Once perilously close to\u00a0extinction, these large reptiles have recovered as the result of government protection.\u00a0 There are now some 1-2 million in Florida alone.\u00a0 In order to manage potential conflicts between alligators and people, the state of Florida\u00a0sanctions a regulated annual hunt.\u00a0 In addition, it removes another 15,000 or so gators a year following public complaints of aggressive behavior.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As a conservationist, I can only hope that we are faced with many more of these dilemmas, as it will mean that carnivore conservation has been a roaring success.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Environmentalists are upset that wolves can now be legally hunted in Idaho and Montana. Michael Hutchins provides some necessary context to this emotional issue: There is no doubt that some individuals and organizations will have a difficult time shifting from a mindset\u00a0where wolves are rare creatures that need every protection to one where wolves are…Continue Reading…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2580,3054,3063],"tags":[888,1766,1781],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation-biology","category-wildlife","category-wolves","tag-conservaton-biology","tag-wildlife","tag-wolves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}