Wolves sometimes stand more as an embodiment of ideological narratives and politics than a species on the landscape. We often talk about wolves-the-symbol rather than wolves-the-species. When this happens, people and...
Category: Management & Policy Tags: Ecology, Hunting, reintroduction, restoration, Social values, Wildlife, wolves
In March 2022, I sat down with Wendy Keefover of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) to chat about a petition the HSUS submitted to the California Department of...
Category: Management & Policy Tags: Black bear, HSUS, science, wildlife management
In 2015, I was in Kugaaruk, Nunavut interviewing hunters for my graduate research. We were talking about ringed seal and polar bear ecology and the environmental changes hunters had noticed over...
Category: Management & Policy Tags: Arctic, climate change, Featured, huntsealeatsealwearseal, Polar bear, ringed seal, Seal hunt
The world needs “ambitious, systemic and sustained efforts to address the full range of direct and indirect drivers of biodiversity change.” We are well into a sixth mass extinction, with untold...
Category: Management & Policy Tags: Conservation, Treaty, Wildlife, wildlife management
A British Columbia Supreme Court ruling in June 2021 (Yahey v British Columbia) found the B.C. government had breached its Treaty responsibilities to Blueberry River First Nations by allowing resource extraction...
Category: Management & Policy Tags: British Columbia, Hunting, management, Reconciliation, Treaty
This post is essentially an unedited transcript of my discussion from Episode 13 – Enhancing the Social License to Hunt of the Hunt To Eat Show covering recent initiatives to suspend...
Category: Management & Policy Tags: Black bear, policy, science, wildlife management
Last month, I posted about the new Agreement for the conservation and recovery of the Woodland Caribou in Alberta signed between the Canada and Alberta governments. One of the themes in...
Category: Management & Policy
An Examination of the Hurdles Created by Differing Conservation Legislation in the U.S. and Canada Casey Pelzl and I collaborated on this piece as Conservation Contributors with Hunt To Eat. It...
Category: Management & Policy
Despite being listed as threatened under the federal Species At Risk Act (SARA) in 2003, the Alberta government has made very little progress on woodland caribou protection or recovery. The Canadian...
Category: Management & Policy Tags: Alberta, Caribou, Endangered species, Featured, Habitat conservation, SARA, Species at risk, Wildlife conservation