by Ken Fischman | Oct 30, 2018 | awareness, stories, Tracking, wolf facts, Wolves
It was a dream job. I and my wife, Lanie, had been chosen by Idaho Fish & Game to be summer caretakers and guides at their Stonebraker Wilderness Ranch. Stonebraker was situated at Chamberlain Basin, in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness, a 3.5...
by Ken Fischman | Dec 3, 2015 | anti wolf, stories, wolf hunt, Wolves
(With apologies to Jonathon Swift, the author of “Gulliver’s Travels,” whose satiric essay, “A Modest Proposal, ”suggested that England could solve the Irish famine by skimming off surplus babies and using them for food.) Ken Fischman, Ph.D. Next spring,...
by Ken Fischman | May 22, 2013 | Breaking News, genetics, The Earth, Wolves
The Incredible Shrinking Megafauna By Ken Fischman, Ph.D. Part 1 – Of Wolves and Elk Doug Smith, who is in charge of the Wolf Recovery Team in Yellowstone National Park (YS) said, during a December 17, 2009 interview by The Billings Gazette, that he had...
by Ken Fischman | Feb 13, 2013 | uncategorized
The Pleistocene Massacres by Ken Fischman, Ph.D. History and pre-history are often best told in stories or narratives. There are two alternative stories to explain the extinction of North American megafauna around 10,000 years ago. In one story, it was the advent of...
by Ken Fischman | Jul 17, 2012 | Breaking News, genetics, Idaho Fish & Game, wolf facts, wolf hunt
THE TROPHIC DOWNGRADING OF PLANET EARTH (Or, where have all the predators gone?) J.A. Estes, et al. (2011) The Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth (2011) Science, 15 July, 333(6040) 301-306. Summary and Comments by Ken Fischman, Ph.D. This is a paper that is worth...