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Scoop.it!
The only wolf ever documented in Southern California may have been a victim of mistaken identity nearly a century ago. 
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Scoop.it!
Below is an editorial from the May 1922 issue of Field and Stream Magazine by Le Grand T. Meyer. His closing line speaking of western federal lands exposed to public lands grazing was: MAKE THESE PLAYGROUNDS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, INSTEAD OF STINKING DESERTS. This editorial was in defense of the Idaho Department of Fish and Game and argued on behalf of the hunting community and others. He was defending the agency against attacks from the livestock industry–particularly the sheep growers. He recognized that the interests of the livestock industry are markedly different than those of wildlife conservation. So what would Mr. Meyer say today about the trophy hunting community's tight ties to the livestock industry, the agency’s acquiescence to the desires of the ranchers (including those that use public lands), and elements of the hunting community’s willingness to re-activate the livestock industry’s anti-wolf campaign (see 1, 2)?
PIRatE Lab's insight:
While this is not a strictly coastal management issue per se, I do very much enjoy historic perspectives on resource management. We have improved much from the state in 1922. But the underlying hatred and fear surrounding predators across the western U.S. has remained much the same (excluding urban centers with folks who rarely directly engage with natural landscapes). More generally we still often have single resource-user groups pushing their agenda upon others (although stakeholder participation is much improved).
I can see ol' Aldo Leopold in this prose.
We can see similar perspectives that remain largely unchanged when it comes to various resources in our coastal zone (oil, fisheries).
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This is one of my old professors who lives canid DNA. An interesting finding that seems sure to push the range of this wolf subspecies into southern California. Pretty neat and a potentially powerful argument for SoCal wolf reintroductions!