Erik Molvar: America's War on Wolves
Species Unite
elizabeth novogratz
5.0 • 911 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
"Let me tell you, there were no bounties when wildlife management became a discipline and it's never been a part of wildlife management, but, but these are the crazy kooks at the absolute extreme of the hunting spectrum. And they got together and held fundraisers and started giving out thousand-dollar bounties on wolves." – Erik Molvar
Eric Molvar is the executive director of the Western Watersheds Project. He was on the podcast recently to talk about the wild horse crisis in the American West. Today, he is back to talk about wolves and the wolf wars that are happening in the West, especially in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.
Eric and the Western watersheds project recently authored a petition to the U S Fish and Wildlife service that was jointly submitted by 70 conservation and wildlife groups, to relist wolves back on the endangered species list.
And, it made it through the first pass – meaning Fish and Wildlife will initiate a comprehensive status review, but it could last a year or more.
Let's hope it passes because in the meanwhile its open season on wolves in the West….
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| 0:15.0 | Let me tell you, there were no bounties when wildlife management became a discipline |
| 0:19.0 | and it's never been a part of wildlife management, |
| 0:21.0 | but these are the crazy cooks at the absolute |
| 0:23.8 | extreme of the hunting spectrum and they got together and held fundraisers and |
| 0:29.4 | started giving out a thousand000 bounties on wolves. Hi, I'm Elizabeth Novigrats. This is Species Unite. On October 1st, Species Unite is starting our 30-day vegan challenge. |
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| 1:25.0 | This conversation is with Eric Mulvar. |
| 1:33.0 | Eric is the executive director of the Western Watersheds Project. |
| 1:37.0 | He was on the podcast pretty recently to talk about the Wild Horse Crisis in the American West. |
| 1:42.0 | Today he's back to talk about the Wild Horse Crisis Crisis in the American West. |
| 1:43.1 | Today he's back to talk about wolves, |
| 1:46.0 | and the wolf wars that are happening in the West, |
| 1:49.0 | especially Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. |
| 1:51.8 | Eric and the Western Watersheds Project recently authored a petition to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. |
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