‘Wolves or People?’

Prey Selection of Scandinavian Wolves: Single Large or Several Small?

Research on large predator-prey interactions are often limited to the predators' primary prey, with the potential for prey switching in systems with multiple ungulate species rarely investigated. We evaluated wolf (Canis lupus) prey selection at two different spatial scales, i.e., inter- and intra-territorial, using data from 409 ungulate wolf-kills in an expanding wolf population in Scandinavi...

The Wolves of Yellowstone

Perhaps no other large predator is more deeply embedded in our psyche than the wolf. Vilified throughout history in both legend and literature, humans had effectively eradicated wolves from Europe by 1850. In the United States, the government declared a war of extermination against gray wolves (Canis lupus) beginning in the early 1800s. Hunters, ranchers, and farmers eagerly enlisted, using let...

Wolves at the more

Wolves in America and Europe are facing a change of fortune after centuries of hunting that have seen them become extinct in many areas and reduced to tiny populations elsewhere. But new conservation measures in the US and Europe are having a dramatic impact. Wolves have already recolonised parts of the US Rocky Mountains, and they have been reintroduced successfully to parts of Idaho and Monta...

Rustproofing People: Beans or Beef?

People Skills: Marketing OR/MS - A People Problem

This is another in a series of articles about some of the most effective models, methods, and processes of organization development (OD), a discipline that offers much to the OR/MS practitioner determined to help clients solve real-world problems. Because it is based on a systemic view of organizations, OD includes the whole universe of ambiguous people-related issues that increasingly determin...