Earlier this week, Rep. Peter DeFazio sent a letter to Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland and Principal Deputy Director of the USFWS, Martha Williams urging emergency reinstatement of Endangered … Continue reading DeFazio Letter Requests Immediate Protections for Gray Wolves
Legal Petition Seeks Extension of Federal Monitoring for Northern Rockies Wolves New Study: Hunting Likely Spurring Harmful Declines in Northern Rocky Wolves VICTOR, Idaho — Five conservation groups filed … Continue reading Cascadia Files Petition to Extend Wolf Monitoring
By Bob Ferris I have been looking at the issue of lethal predator control for many, many years and the longer I look at it and the more science … Continue reading Lethal Control of Predators: Of Science, Scapegoats and Icebergs
Dear Cascadia Wildlands Supporter: Cascadia Wildlands needs your support in our fight against predator killing contests. (click here) Predator killing contests—like the one pictured above—are not hunting. … Continue reading Help Us Stop Senseless Wolf and Coyote Killing Contests
By Bob Ferris June 1st marks my twentieth year as a professional advocate for wolf recovery and roughly thirty years as a professional wildlife biologist. This is not a … Continue reading Journey and Wandering Wanda—A love story two plus decades in the making
By Bob Ferris Last weekend I went “wolfy.” Portland-based Artist Vanessa Renwick invited me to come to some wolf events and view her “Hunting Requires Optimism” installation at the … Continue reading Going Wolfy on the Weekend
By Paul Paquet and Bob Ferris Special to the Mercury News Silicon Valley embraces science and loves innovation. Sadly, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has recently shown contempt … Continue reading Where’s the science? Fish and Wildlife Service must rewrite proposal to strip endangered species protections from gray wolves (an excerpt)
by Bob Ferris I have frequently observed that some of the folks who wrap themselves most tightly in the American flag are those who take some of the most un-American … Continue reading Updating Roosevelt: Teddy and the Wolves
By Bob Ferris As a scientist there are times that I wish that science had a “penalty flag” much like the ones we see in professional football. Big, weighted … Continue reading Time to Throw a Science Penalty Flag at Idaho
For immediate release February 7, 2014 Contact: Bob Ferris, Executive Director, 805.452.4900 Josh Laughlin, Campaign Director, 541.844.8182 A scientific peer review released today greatly questions … Continue reading Press Release: Peer Review Questions Obama Proposal to Strip Protections for Wolves
