Human activity, including hunting and trapping can affect wolf behavior and the social integrity of the wolf pack. There are, however, protected areas for Wolves in the Province of Ontario, which are off-limits to hunters & trappers.
Just like in most types of hunting, “just before dark” is usually the best time for the mature animals to arrive. Sometimes the big ones will be there well before dark, but usually the last 30 minutes of legal shooting light is the best. Carry a flashlight; the bear usually won’t ...
The range of these animals used to cover the whole of the US and southern Canada. However relentless hunting and habitat destruction has resulted in their protection as an endangered species. Luckily the Great Plains Wolf has made a great comeback and their numbers are rising again. Northwestern...
The article reports on the recommendation by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) to provide more protection for the eastern wolf, citing the threats of hybridization with eastern coyotes and...
As deforestation, hunting and poisoning depleted the population numbers of eastern wolves, they interbred with western coyotes. A report from PBS writes that the first eastern coyote or coywolf appeared around 1919 in Ontario, Canada. Today, wolf DNA has popped up in "coyote" poop as far sou...
Thankfully, we don’t seem to have too many wolf hybrids in Southern Ontario. I have heard of a few coy dogs (equally sad) and there are the people who claim that their dog is part wolf. Possibly, they think it makes them seem cool and elevates their status. Usually you meet the ...
“outdoors industry”, described an enormous white wolf which his good friend encountered in the wilderness of Northern Ontario, not far from his hunting lodge. He estimated that this animal, which was feasting on a moose carcass at the time, weighed at least 200 pounds. It had a large, ...
federal protections for wolves in the Northern Rockies were lifted via a budget-bill rider. Many outside the livestock, hunting, and logging lobbies viewed the move as an act of political expediency. As soon as they were let off the leash, states such as Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming went ...
The forest, which encompasses 513,257 acres, is within easy driving distance of several metropolitan areas in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Ontario, Canada. A wide choice of lodging, dining and visitor services are readily available in the nearby towns of Bradford, Kane, Marshburg and Lant...
Accordingly, the program review should determine whether: (1) banning coyote hunting will sufficiently benefit wolf survival or recruitment; (2) the wolf population should be considered conservation-reliant under revised recovery goals; or (3) the recovery program in North Carolina should be abandoned...