Habituated wolves at Yellowstone get GPS collars
Don't Feed The Wolves!
Ralph Maugham reports on the Hayden Valley Pack, which has been fed by visitors and is becoming habituated to human contact. Both alphas now have GPS collars which will allow monitoring of their proximity to visitors areas so that adverse conditioning can be administered.
If the feeding continues and/or the adverse conditioning fails, the future of this pack could be bleak. The Hayden Valley wolves are easily seen by visitors, so "controlling" them would be a serious loss to both the wolf recovery effort and to visitors' opportunities to see and photograph wolves in Yellowstone.
Remember that the saying "A fed bear is a dead bear" applies to wolves too. Don't feed the wolves!
More info at Ralph Maugham's wonderful site:
Ralph Maugham's Yellowstone Wolf Report
Ralph Maugham reports on the Hayden Valley Pack, which has been fed by visitors and is becoming habituated to human contact. Both alphas now have GPS collars which will allow monitoring of their proximity to visitors areas so that adverse conditioning can be administered.
If the feeding continues and/or the adverse conditioning fails, the future of this pack could be bleak. The Hayden Valley wolves are easily seen by visitors, so "controlling" them would be a serious loss to both the wolf recovery effort and to visitors' opportunities to see and photograph wolves in Yellowstone.
Remember that the saying "A fed bear is a dead bear" applies to wolves too. Don't feed the wolves!
More info at Ralph Maugham's wonderful site:
posted by wolf saga at 10:01 AM
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