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Ecoregions of British Columbia
Muskwa-Slave Lake forests, Northern Cordillera forests ,Yukon Interior dry forests. Alberta Mountain forests, Alberta-British Columbia foothills forests , British Columbia mainland coastal forests, Cascade Mountains leeward forests, Central British Columbia Mountain forests, Central Pacific coastal forests, Central Pacific coastal forests, Fraser Plateau and Basin complex, Haida Gwaii forests, North Central Rockies forests, Northern transitional alpine forests, Okanagan dry forests, Puget lowland forests, Canadian aspen forests and parklands, Alaska-St. Elias Range tundra, Pacific Coastal Mountain icefields and tundra
Gray Wolf (Canis lupus)
Northwestern Gray Wolf (Canis lupus occidentalis)
British Columbia wolf (Canis lupus columbianus)
Vancouver Island Wolf (Canis lupus crassodon)
Population Statistics [“Best estimate” is there are 8,500 wolves in B.C., but concedes the true number could range as low as 5,300 or as high as 11,600″]refer
Legal Status; Game species throughout.
Resources
British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations
Organizations
Raincoast Conservation Foundation
Pacific Wild (Denny Island BC, Canada)
Wilderness Committee (Vancouver, BC)
Caribou Rainforest
British Columbia / Canadian News Resources & Publications
CBC News British Columbia (BC Canada)
Vancouver Sun (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
HUFF POST Canada (Canada)
National Observer (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
Times Colonist (Victoria, BC, Canada)
LATEST BRITISH COLUMBIA NEWS LATEST CANADIAN NEWS
Wolf and Wildlife News from British Columbia
- Wolves use trails created by humans for convenient hunting and easier access to prey | The Conversation
09th Feb 2022
- UBCO studies human impact on wolf hunting habits | Castanet
30th Jan 2022
- How one B.C. group, First Nations bought out trophy hunters | Squamish Chief
02nd Jan 2022
- Alternative to wolf cull could save caribou in B.C.’s north | Canada’s National Observer
06th Jun 2021
- South Islanders calling for pause on wolf hunting as pack sightings drop | Campbell River Mirror
02nd Apr 2021
- The Caribou Guardians -Two First Nations protect an animal that has protected them for generations | Orion Magazine
01st Apr 2021
- B.C. to tighten rules for trapping wolves | The Globe and Mail
30th Mar 2021
- Banff research wolf shot and killed in Montana | RMO TODAY
11th Mar 2021
- Island-based group buys hunting rights to thwart trophy kills | Squamish Chief
04th Nov 2020
- Hair From Ghostly Bears Reveals New Genetic Secrets | The New York Times
25th Sep 2020
- Killing nearly 500 wolves in a year failed to protect endangered caribou – study | Environment | The Guardian
21st Jul 2020
- The complicated tale of why B.C. paid $2 million to shoot wolves in endangered caribou habitat this winter | The Narwhal
26th Apr 2020
- ‘A dangerous road’: Coastal GasLink pays to kill wolves in endangered caribou habitat in B.C. interior | The Narwhal
13th Apr 2020
- Wolf cull: B.C. would target 80% of wolves in caribou recovery areas | Vancouver Sun
15th Sep 2019
- Wolves not gnawing into Island’s prey population – Victoria News
17th Jul 2019
- The Last Wild Caribou of the Lower 48 Has Been Placed in Captivity | Smithsonian
23rd Jan 2019
- Use of snares in Western Canadian wolf culls fuels ethical debate | The Globe and Mail
23rd Aug 2018
- An alternative to wolf control to save endangered caribou: Researchers study the effectiveness of a new government strategy to stabilize the caribou population by focusing on the reduction of invasive moose populations, indirectly lowering the density of the caribou’s primary predator | ScienceDaily
30th Aug 2017
- Meet Rare Sea Wolves Who Live Off The Ocean And Can Swim For Hours | Bored Panda
01st Jul 2017
- Family of Sea Wolves Is A Treat To Behod | The Wild Canadian Year
18th Jun 2017
Journal Articles
Resource exploitation efficiency collapses the home range of an apex predator. Dickie M, Serrouya R, Avgar T, McLoughlin P, McNay RS, DeMars C, Boutin S, Ford AT. Ecology.:e3642. 2022
ABSTRACT
Optimizing energy acquisition and expenditure is a fundamental trade-off for consumers, strikingly reflected in how mobile organisms use space. Several studies have established that.
home range size decreases as resource density increases, but the balance of costs and benefits associated with exploiting a given resource density is unclear. We evaluate how the ability of consumers to exploit their resources through movement (termed “resource exploitation”) interacts with resource density to influence home range size. We then contrast two hypotheses to evaluate how resource exploitation influences home range size across a vast gradient of productivity and density of human-created linear features (roads and seismic lines) that are known to facilitate animal movements. Under the Diffusion Facilitation Hypothesis, linear features are predicted to lead to more diffuse space use and larger home ranges. Under the Exploitation Efficiency Hypothesis, linear features are predicted to increase foraging efficiency, resulting in less space being required to meet energetic demands and therefore smaller home ranges. Using GPS telemetry data from 142 wolves (Canis lupus) distributed over more than 500,000 km2, we found that wolf home range size was influenced by the interaction between resource density and exploitation efficiency. Home range size decreased as linear feature density increased, supporting the Exploitation Efficiency Hypothesis. However, the effect of linear features on home range size diminished in more productive areas, suggesting that exploitation efficiency is of greater importance when resource density is low. These results suggest that smaller home ranges will occur where both linear feature density and primary productivity are higher, thereby increasing regional wolf density.
[HTML] Proactive conservation of high-value habitat for woodland caribou and grizzly bears in the boreal zone of British Columbia, Canada
N Suzuki, KL Parker – Biological Conservation, 2019 – Elsevier
Vegetation and prescribed fire: Implications for stone’s sheep and elk
KL Sittler, KL Parker… – The Journal of Wildlife …, 2019 – Wiley Online Library
Staqeya: the lone wolf at the edge of its ecological niche; Dylan Collins, Cheryl Alexander, Chris T. Darimont; The Ecological Society of America, 10 September 2018
[PDF] Experimental moose reduction lowers wolf density and stops decline of endangered caribou; R Serrouya, BN McLellan, H van Oort, G Mowat… – PeerJ Preprints, 29 August 2017
[HTML] Population genetic structure of gray wolves (Canis lupus) in a marine archipelago suggests island-mainland differentiation consistent with dietary niche
AV Stronen, EL Navid, MS Quinn… – BMC …, 2014 – bmcecol.biomedcentral.com
[PDF] … distribution and movement ecology of wolves (Canis lupus) and woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) in the South Peace region of British Columbia
E Williamson-Ehlers – 2012 – core.ac.uk
[HTML] Going coastal: shared evolutionary history between coastal British Columbia and Southeast Alaska wolves (Canis lupus); BV Weckworth, NG Dawson, SL Talbot, MJ Flamme… – PLoS …, 2011 – journals.plos.org
Using stable isotopes to define diets of wolves in northern British Columbia, Milakovic B, Parker KL. Canada. Journal of Mammalogy. 2011 Apr
The genetic legacy of extirpation and re-colonization in Vancouver Island wolves. Munoz-Fuentes V, Darimont CT, Paquet PC, Leonard JA. Conservation Genetics. 2010 Apr
Ecological factors drive differentiation in wolves from British Columbia; V Muñoz‐Fuentes, CT Darimont… – Journal of …, 2009 – Wiley Online Library
Ecological interactions of mountain caribou, wolves and moose in the North Columbia Mountains, British Columbia (Doctoral dissertation, University of Alberta). Stotyn, S.A., 2008
Mountain caribou interactions with wolves and moose in central British Columbia. Alces: Seip DR. A Journal Devoted to the Biology and Management of Moose. 2008
Management and challenges of the mountain pine beetle infestation in British Columbia
C Ritchie – Alces: A Journal Devoted to the Biology and …, 2008 – alcesjournal.org
[HTML] Spawning salmon disrupt trophic coupling between wolves and ungulate prey in coastal British Columbia; CT Darimont, PC Paquet, TE Reimchen – BMC ecology, 2008 – bmcecol.biomedcentral.com
Mortality sources and spatial partitioning among mountain caribou, moose, and wolves in the north Columbia Mountains, British Columbia. Stotyn SA, McLellan BN, Serrouya R. Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Compensation Program, Nelson, BC. 2007 Sep.
Early ontogenetic diet in gray wolves, Canis lupus, of coastal British Columbia; HM Bryan, CT Darimont… – The Canadian Field …, 2006 – canadianfieldnaturalist.ca
Population dynamics of the endangered mountain ecotype of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) in British Columbia, Canada. Wittmer HU, McLellan BN, Seip DR, Young JA, Kinley TA, Watts GS, Hamilton D. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 2005 Mar
Predators in natural fragments: foraging ecology of wolves in British Columbia’s central and north coast archipelago; CT Darimont, MHH Price, NN Winchester… – Journal of …, 2004 – Wiley Online Library
Foraging behaviour by gray wolves on salmon streams in coastal British Columbia
CT Darimont, TE Reimchen… – Canadian Journal of …, 2003 – NRC Research Press
[PDF] Gray wolves, Canis lupus, of British Columbia’s Central and North Coast: distribution and conservation assessment; CT Darimont, PC Paquet – Canadian Field Naturalist, 2002 – raincoast.org
The gray wolves (Canis lupus) of British Columbia’s coastal rainforests; CT Darimont, PC Paquet – 2001 – animalstudiesrepository.org
Habitat factors affecting vulnerability of moose to predation by wolves in southeastern British Columbia. Kunkel KE, Pletscher DH. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 2000 Feb
Highway effects on gray wolves within the Golden Canyon, British Columbia. Callaghan C, Paquet P, Wierzchowski J. InProceedings of the Third International Conference on Wildlife Ecology and Transportation 1999 Sep
Wolf predation in a multiple-ungulate system in northern British Columbia; AT Bergerud, JP Elliott – Canadian Journal of Zoology, 1998 – NRC Research Press
Predation by wolves and other large carnivores in northwestern Montana and southeastern British Columbia. Kunkel, K.E., 1997.
Winter habitat selection by wolves in the North Fork of the Flathead River Basin Montana and British Columbia. Singleton, P.H., 1995.
Factors limiting woodland caribou populations and their interrelationships with wolves and moose in southeastern British Columbia. Seip DR. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 1992 Aug
Dynamics of caribou and wolves in northern British Columbia. Bergerud AT, Elliot JP. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 1986 Jul