Here's a re-colored version of my wolf art, this time in more neutral tones. I sometimes saw wolves where I used to live and let me tell you, it was always a huge thrill!
Great news! The reintroduction of #wolves to #Colorado will continue as planned after Friends of Animals, Colorado Parks and Wildlife and other animal advocacy groups thwarted the meat industry’s desperate last-ditch lawsuit to block the underway plan. friendsofanimals.org/foa-intervenes…
Wolves, with their widespread distribution from North America to Eurasia, are ecologically vital as keystone species, playing a critical role in maintaining the health and balance of ecosystems by regulating prey populations. Their influence extends to increasing biodiversity and reshaping landscapes, thus fostering more robust and diverse natural environments.
The newest edition of @augurmag is officially out. My story “Wolf Mother” is in it. Here are the opening sentences. You’ll have to get a copy to read the rest! “Long lean legs, a tongue dripping with hot saliva, tail held arrow straight. The timber wolf stands at the edge of the trees almost, but not quite, hidden from me by the penumbral pines. She is grey, white, and black, the colours of snow in shadows, her legs planted as firmly as the trees behind her. She pants, but not from the heat.” https://www.augurmag.com#SpeculativeFiction#Fairytale#wolf@indigenousauthors#Wolves#LittleRedRidingHood#AuthorsOfMastodon#CanLit
"Maintaining healthy populations of just nine key wild species (or groups of species) – including elephants and wolves, but also wildebeest, musk ox and bison, as well as marine fish, whales, sharks and sea otters – can play a vital role in controlling the carbon cycle on land and sea."
The State of Idaho has recently approved an outrageous plan to pay private contractors to kill unlimited numbers of wolves through some of the most offensive methods.
Please join me in telling US Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland to protect Idaho's wolves from aerial slaughter.