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Fladry, a line mounted along the top of a fence from which strips of fabric or some other material are suspended have been used to deter wolves from traversing a fence-line for centuries. First developed and used by hunters in Eastern Europe to funnel wolves into an area, once caught in the fladry trap wolves were reluctant to cross the barrier and were shot. Currently, fladry is used to confine wolf movements to certain areas and constrain their depredations on livestock through creation of barriers that wolves don’t like to cross or otherwise impair their predation ability.
A prevalent societal goal across the West is to protect valuable livestock from carnivores, reducing depredation losses, creating an eco-system where both domestic and wild animals can co-exist. Fladry can play a role among a suite of preventive measures available and offers a cost-effective mitigation tool for the problem of wolf predation on livestock on a local scale.
WOLF NUMBERS UP AGAIN, BUT EXPANSION SLOWING
By MATTHEW BROWN, Associated Press writer
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - Federal officials say a record 1,645 gray wolves counted in the Northern Rockies this winter shows the predators' population remains strong, but is no longer expanding as rapidly as in past years.
Since their reintroduction to the region in the mid-1990s, wolf numbers had previously grown on average by 24 percent annually in Wyoming, Idaho and Montana.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Ed Bangs says this year's figure is up only 8 percent. Bangs says that signals that wolves have filled most of the prime habitat in the three states.
Federal officials in January declared the region's wolves were ready to come off the endangered species list. Environmental and animal rights groups have vowed to challenge that decision in court.
This story first appeared in the Associated Press on March 17, 2009
WOLF-BORN HYDATID DISEASE: FACT VERSUS FALLACY
by TERRI ADAMS, The Prairie Star
There's an uproar over wolves carrying the disease, but they're not the only ones
OUTFITTERS BACK OFF CALL FOR MORE WOLF TURF
Federal Agency, wolf protest participants at odds over 'facts.'
by CORY HATCH, Jackson Hole News & Guide
WOLVES KEEP FORESTS NUTRIENT RICH
The downed prey of wolves found to create hotspots of forest fertility.
by JEREMY HANCE, Mongabay.com
WITH WOLVES IN WOODS, EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED
It is useful to be reminded that the wolf plays a useful and legitimate role on the landscape.
by GREG TOLLEFSON, Missoulian.
BIOLOGIST’S FINDINGS SHOW FOREST DIVERSITY, HEALTH INFLUENCED BY WOLVES
Remove the wolf...everything changes, top to bottom, right down to the dirt.
by MICHAEL JAMISON, Missoulian























