Impacts of Landscape Change on Wolf Viability in the Northeastern U.S. and Southeastern Canada
The Wildlands Project is pleased to release this research report on the potential for wolf recovery in the northeastern U.S. and southeastern Canada. The analysis, prepared by Dr. Carlos Carroll, offers the best current scientific thinking about the means and prospects for wolf restoration in the region at a time when political events affecting the wolf’s future are heating up. In October 2003, the Wildlands Project joined a lawsuit with Defenders of Wildlife and several other plaintiffs to challenge the legality of the Fish and Wildlife Service’s final rule on reclassifying the gray wolf (Canis lupus) under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). As the lead agency charged with implementing the ESA, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has an obligation to use the best available science—not politics—to protect America’s imperiled wildlife. We hope this report advances scientific understanding of wolf recovery issues and will be helpful to policymakers in the U.S. and Canada, agency and academic wolf biologists, and the conservation community.
