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MWC Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary!

Maine Wolf Coalition Booth

Maine Wolf Coalition Booth at the Common Ground Fair

In September 1994, we started the Maine Wolf Coalition at the Common Ground Fair in Windsor, Maine.  We built a booth, purchased booth space and signed up our first members. Given the newness about the wolf recovery issue and the controversy it generated, we felt extremely lucky just to be able to participate.  This year, we celebrated our 20th anniversary and our 21st consecutive appearance at the Common Ground Fair.  Once again, our booth was very popular as we met and spoke with many folks from Maine and elsewhere about wolf recovery in the northeast. Read the rest of this entry »

Transitions

We started the Maine Wolf Coalition in September 1994 at Maine’s Common Ground Fair. We knew that Maine needed an organization to speak out on behalf of wolves and to educate the public about them. For a number of years we were membership based and very active giving presentations, attending functions, and raising monies to support our work. Over time, as people came and went, and as it became more practical to do so, we made the decision to become an internet based organization instead of a membership based organization. For several years now we have operated MWC on a shoestring with the bulk of our funds used to pay for our website. With very limited monies and resources, through our website, our wolf booth and in response to inquiries from the public and the press we have continued to educate others about wolves and to serve as a major voice in wolf recovery advocacy. Read the rest of this entry »

MWC Collects Nearly 400 Northeast Wolf Recovery Petition Signatures at the 2012 Common Ground Fair

Maine Wolf Coalition Booth

MWC’s booth at the 2012 Common Ground Fair

The Maine Wolf Coalition was established during the 1994 Common Ground Fair held in Windsor, Maine. That year we built a wolf display and collected our first memberships. This year marks our 19th consecutive year as a fair participant. Once again our efforts were very successful as hundreds of fairgoers stopped to look at our booth and many stopped to chat or ask questions about northeast wolf recovery. Meredith Kellogg donated three t-shirts and several small vials of wolf fur from Indiana’s Wolf Park to help generate donations which once again exceeded our fair expenses. Thank you, Meredith for doing a great job! Read the rest of this entry »