Affiliation:
1. US Geological Survey's Idaho Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, University of Idaho , Moscow, Idaho , United States
2. US Geological Survey's Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center , Jamestown, North Dakota , University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
Abstract
Abstract
Gray wolf (Canis lupus) recovery and conservation has been a remarkable success over the last 30 years in the United States. Remarkable success yields remarkable challenges, however. As populations expand, wolves will colonize more human-dominated landscapes and face numerous challenges, such as fragmented habitats, barriers to dispersal, and increased encounters with humans, pets, and livestock. In such areas, conflicts between humans and wolves will increase. We summarize several major scientific and social challenges that wolf conservation, recovery, and management will face in the coming years. In addition, we suggest actions to help address each challenge. Future wolf conservation in the United States will be affected by the ability of managers to predict colonization and dispersal dynamics, to reduce hybridization and disease transmission, to mitigate and deter wolf–livestock conflicts, to harvest wolves sustainably while satisfying diverse stakeholders, to avert a reduction in tolerance for wolves due to a disinterest in nature, and to engage diverse stakeholders in wolf conservation to avoid management by ballot initiative or legislative and judicial decrees.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
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