Dan Flores
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 18 Aug
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Adolph Murie had been right about
Wolves mostly killed the young, the injured, and the very old of their prey.
But there was more.
Meck was the first naturalist to report how difficult the life of a wolf really was.
Although Isle Royale's wolves killed and ate beavers, almost their entire focus was on big ungulates.
Wolves did not survive on rabbits or mice.
Yet of the moose they pursued, even big wolf packs succeeded in making kills only 8% of the time.
For many readers, Meck's insights induced a newfound understanding and compassion for the life of a wolf.
For ecology, Meck's Isle Royale study was one more piece of hard evidence buttressing the scientific view that wolves were critical animals.
to healthy ecologies.
So by the 1960s, our best natural scientists were telling us we'd been wrong to impose a myopic old world wolf war in America.
The science of ecology was showing that the continent's ancient top predators had shaped everything about America's natural history.
from the way other predators like cougars or coyotes or foxes functioned, to what kinds of prey animals there were and how many, down to the numbers of beavers in the streams, the songbirds in the valleys, the kinds of trees and grass that grew.
If Americans valued and wanted modern, healthy versions of old-time America's ecologies,
we were going to have to take a number of measures from creating a wilderness preservation system to bringing wolves back.
Ecologist Aldo Leopold's land ethic almost came down to a single delimited insight.
Imagining a biologically healthy America meant we had to start thinking like wild mountains that had wolves in them again.
In 1967, with the Endangered Species Act of 1966 on the books, both the eastern timber wolf and the red wolf, ancient native animals whose genetics and cultural knowledge we were in danger of losing, were listed as endangered species.
The western gray wolf was also listed in 1967.
then relisted in 1973 when Congress passed and Richard Nixon signed into law the Grand Endangered Species Act of that year.
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