wolves
We need some good news. This is some. For the first time in over 100 years, a gray wolf has been spotted in Giant Sequoia National Monument in southern California,.
As some of you may know, the book I'm mostly working on is a history of the Pacific Northwest since 1960. I wasn't entirely sure what the thesis was going.
Cue the right wing freakout in California that the wolves are going to eat our children.* The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has photographic evidence of five gray.
The West has reinvigorated its war on wolves and the Obama Administration has sadly capitulated to Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, in what is yet another example of its poor policy.
Whether in Europe or the U.S., the wolf debate is kind of the ultimate in the urban-rural environmentalism divide. I have to admit that while I sympathize with the French shepherds, I mostly side with the city dwellers because the wolf is a natural part...