Archive for the ‘Maine Wolf Coalition’ Category

On April 7, 2015, MWC president John Glowa testified before the Maine Legislature’s Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Committee in opposition of L.D. 691-An Act to Allow Sunday Hunting for Coyotes in Northern Maine.  The committee disregarded our testimony that, in fact, Maine’s “coyotes” cannot legally be hunted or trapped because it is not a coyote, but is rather by statutory definition, a wolf hybrid.  There is no legal definition for “coyote” in Maine statutes.  The supporters of the legislation maligned Maine’s “coyotes” and provided no scientific evidence to support killing these animals seven days a week, instead of the six days a week currently allowed.  Our testimony is shown below. Read the rest of this entry »

MWC started in 1994 as an all-volunteer organization.  We remain that way today.  Although we operate on a shoestring budget, there are expenses, the biggest of which is this website which allows us to get the message of northeast wolf recovery around the globe.  In 2015, we hope to raise $2,000 which will allow us to purchase a digital projector, laptop, screen and perhaps a sound system to give power point presentations around the state and maybe elsewhere as time permits.  Once we reach our goal and purchase the equipment, we will put photos of the equipment on our website.  Here is one photo from our presentation. Read the rest of this entry »

As we wait for the USFWS decision regarding delisting gray wolves in the northeast and declaring the eastern wolf to be the one wolf species native to the northeast, MWC continues to look for wolves that science and physical evidence tell us are here. We recently received a report of a large canid no more than ten miles from where a wolf was killed in eastern Maine in 1996. MWC went to the site of the report, placed a trail camera with scent bait, and collected a scat for possible later DNA analysis. We plan to leave the camera in place until deep snows prevent us from retrieving it. We know that one or more large canids uses the trail on which the camera is located, based upon the size and location of the scat. See photo of the animal’s tracks. The dollar bill is approximately six inches long. Read the rest of this entry »