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Wolf Awareness Week

The North Lakeland Discovery Center, in collaboration with the Timber Wolf Alliance, will celebrate National Wolf Awareness Week October 14th -20th, 2012.

Wolf Awareness Week, held during the third week of October, is a time when organizations around the country work together to get out information on this charismatic and often misunderstood species.

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For more information or to register for events, visit www.DiscoveryCenter.net or call (877) 543-2085. The Discovery Center is located on CTH W just 1.2 miles north of USH 51 in Manitowish Waters, WI.

Why Wolves? The Role of Wolves in the Landscape (Poster article for 2011)

By Timber Wolf Alliance Staff, with editing assistance by Jeff Snowbarger

For many years, our relationship with the gray wolf has been one based on fear and misunderstanding.

During the past three centuries wolves were methodically persecuted – shot, trapped, and poisoned with the single purpose of elimination. They were seen as a nuisance, pest, and even a terror to be feared, with no thought to the benefits they might provide in maintaining the ecosystem in which they existed.

Not until the wolf was nearly extinct did scientists and concerned citizens begin to ask the questions: What good are wolves? What will happen to our landscape when the wolves are gone?

Conservationists have long held the premise that all species have intrinsic value. While wolves were not economically valuable, (and in fact were blamed for economic loss through livestock predation) the question of their ecological value was of great debate. A debate which continues today. (Read more...)