Thursday August 16, 2007, 12:15 pm
The moose in Isle Royale have always had hydatid tapeworms, which encyst in their lungs, affecting their fitness and lifespan.
This article is certainly important. Isle Royale has shown that wolves have helped to balance plant species from the overbrowsing which occurs without predation, the evidence that balanced, healthier herbivore populations result from predation by wolf and others, and gives transparency to the lies of selfish welfare ranchers about wolf being a danger to humans.
The development in Thunder Bay, Ontario has tightened the noose on wolves, as well as the increased failure of icing over of Lake Superior in winter between the Islands and the North Shore denying repat passage to the Islands.
This all creates an increased need for refuge for wolves which are overmanaged (read gratuitously killed, rather than let free to be continue the varying population balance which occurred before the 19th century) by USFWS and again soon, states.