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Why Ecosystems Need Healthy Populations of Apex Predators to Be Restored
By Jimmy Videle, This article was produced by Earth | Food | Life, a project of the Independent Media Institute. What if restoring ecosystems was as easy as letting nature do what she intends? From...
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Wolves Sometimes Kill Farm Animals, but Hunting Them Is Prone to Backfire
By Jack McGovan, Sentient Media Sometime after midnight in the fall of 2022, a pony named Dolly was savaged by a wolf in a small village in Germany. The story might have ended there, just as it did...
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Species to Watch in 2023
By John R. Platt and Tara Lohan Here at The Revelator, we spend our days reading and writing about endangered species and our nights worrying about them. At the same time, we spend our days talking...
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Oil Development Is Changing the Rules of the Game for Wildlife
By Tara Lohan Major ecological changes are afoot in western Canada’s boreal forests, and they have scientists concerned. The most glaring problem is a steep decline in boreal woodland caribou...
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Lone Wolves, Big Bad Wolves, and the Wolf Pack: How Our Moonshot Mission for...
PART 1 I just returned from spending a week with my men’s group. We began meeting forty-three years ago with seven of us. Now there are only three that are alive and can travel. We have been...
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Wolves as Teachers
By Tara Lohan When Cristina Eisenberg left the Central Coast of California in the 1990s looking for a wilder place to raise her children, she found it in a remote part of northwest Montana. The first...
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Beat the COVID-19 Blues With These Wildlife and Nature Livecams
By John R. Platt With the coronavirus continuing to spread and self-isolation becoming the norm, it feels more important than ever to embrace the power and beauty of nature. Sure, we can’t travel as...
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The Fraught Politics of Wolf Hunting
By Jill Richardson In late February, Wisconsin held a wolf hunt. Hunters shot over 200 wolves — 82 percent more than the quota allowed. The hunt occurred during wolves’ breeding season. It’s likely...
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Cheyenne the Healing Wolf
In mid-December of 2019, my friend Dylan Matkowsky put me in contact with Drew Robertson, the Executive Director of Mattersville–a sustainable community of tiny homes built for homeless veterans...
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The Wolves Teach Wolf Pups How to Run in Packs
— #ManhoodGame Card of the Day — The wolves teach the wolf pups how to become wolves. But we don’t run in packs anymore. We prefer to lone wolf it. Or if we do run in a pack, we never display...
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Teamwork and Collaboration
Team Family! I have to hand it to my wife. She introduced a fine concept to our boys some time ago. It’s called, Team Family, and she uses it when the boys help out with something, either each other,...
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The Lie of Heroes: How Kerouac Almost Killed Me
By trying to follow in his literary hero’s footsteps, Jarad Dewing learned that not all heroes are what they seem. — A tractor trailer behind me blared its horn, urging me to move. I woke up and...
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What Does Shooting Wolves Have to Do With Rivers?
—– — “I wish I had my gun so I could shoot these pumpkins,” Cody announced to his classmates before he even stepped off the bus. We were at the trailhead, next to a farmer’s market and across the...
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Drifting and Looking
Embed from Getty Images He is still out there watching, the big white wolf. I looked up as I started to set camp. The two wolves, the large white male, and a smaller grayish female had moved in to...
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My Sons are Not Animals, Stop Trying to Tame Them
View image | gettyimages.com Christine Walker, mom of sons, is frustrated by false messages that boys have uncontrollable, animalistic urges that need taming. They say it takes a village to raise a...
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Letting Go Of Control Can Be The Healthiest Thing
This short film teaches us that nature knows best and that the wild and powerful spirit of the wolf has the power to heal as well as to kill. — Our urge to control and micro-manage nature, even when...
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The Black and White Wolf Within Each of Us
Which wolf will you feed? There is a story I like to tell to my clients, participants and friends. It’s about a wise, old Cherokee Indian. Because I felt like writing about it I just did some Google...
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The Lone Wolf
There is a tattoo indelibly inked on the young souls of boys in lone wolf training: Don’t trust men. Lone wolves aren’t born; they’re formed in the rigorous training program that begins when boys are...
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