Call for Support: Book on Wolves in Oregon20thApril
This week we're offering what I feel is an important guest blog. David Moskowitz, a friend and colleague is writing a book on wolves returning to the Pacific Northwest. It's a grassroots project he working diligently to garner key community support for.
Wolves of their own volition are returning to our state. Dave is raising funds through Kickstarter, a website designed to develop such grassroots projects. If you are inspired by the topic and can help support his work, I highly encourage you to do help him out. This one of those stories that needs to be told. We need to bring the real wild back to our home.
Plus, check out changes for our TrackersTEAMS Wilderness Immersion program. This fall it will take place by the ocean on the Oregon Coast with full overnights.
Sincerely, Tony Deis, Founder, Trackers Earth
Guest Blog: Wolves in the Land of Salmon by David Moskowitz
David moskowitz is a professional wildlife tracker, photographer, and outdoor educator, has been studying wildlife and tracking in the pacific northwest since 1995. check out his blog at David Moskowitz Photography
A unique and fascinating story is waiting to be told about one of the world’s most intriguing animals and its place in the diverse and striking landscapes of the Pacific Northwest; from wild coastlines and rainforests to remote mountain ranges and inhospitable deserts.
How do wolves survive in a temperate rainforest and how is this different from their behavior and ecology in the harsh high deserts east of the Cascades?
What have been the impacts of over a century of wolf extirpation from Western Washington and Oregon?
What are the prospects and ecological significance of their recovery across Oregon, Washington and Northern California?
What is the cultural significance of this iconic predator for indigenous peoples of the region and for modern western culture in the Northwest?
Answers to questions such as these, and inspiring appreciation and conservation of our region’s wildlife and wildlands are at the heart of Wolves of the Pacific Northwest, a book I have contracted to write and photograph (Timber Press, Portland, Oregon).
More Than a Book: A Conservation Initiative Here in the Pacific Northwest, wolves absence and reestablishment have brought into sharp focus the interest and ecological importance of this apex carnivore. Along with the production of a book, photographs, articles, and presentations from this project will be used to promote awareness and conservation regionally through collaborations with regional educational and conservation organizations.
Capturing the Story Pulling together the multitude of parts of this complex story will involve extensive literature research, interviews with experts in the field and expeditions across the region to places where wolves have maintained healthy populations, areas where reestablishment of populations in now occurring, and locations were wolf extirpation has had significant impacts on the regional ecology.
Support Dave's work at Kickstarter
