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A joint venture of Conservation Northwest, Wilderness Awareness School, and I-90 Wildlife Bridges Coalition, the project involves trained volunteers to record the presence and movement of wildlife in the Washington Cascades and in northeast Washington.
During this past winter, the seventh in the project's history, volunteers continued the search for rare carnivores including wolverines and wolves. More than seventy citizen scientists:
"For wolverines to come back to these places on their own, and take up residence there again, sticking around, and calling it home," Conservation Northwest's Jen Watkins recently told the Seattle Times, "That is thrilling."]]>
There are dozens of eyes monitoring the deep woods where only the wolverine and a few other hardy creatures dare roam during the cold winter months. Remote, motion -activated cameras are attached to trees patiently waiting for something to move.
Researcher Aja Woodrow is hoping that "something" is a wolverine.
Woodrow is doing surveys for the U.S. Forest Service, and on Friday, he was snowshoeing in search of a suitable research site.
Once he finds a location, he builds a small deck attached to a tree and then mounts a camera on a nearby tree. If a wolverine climbs up on the deck, the camera will snap several images that Woodrow and other researchers can use to identify the animal's size, sex and distinguishing markings.
All he has to do is attract the animal so he brings along a snack - two large hunks of raw cow meat, which he hangs from a metal line stretched between the two trees.
But to really get some attention, he dowses the base of the tree leading to the platform with a concoction of salmon guts and cow blood, and for good measure, he throws in a little ground up skunk organ.
If he can attract a wolverine, it will be a big deal because his camera is set up, not in the remote Okanogan wilderness but in a secluded area near Snoqualmie summit. That would put a wolverine within just a few hours of Seattle.]]>
BOZEMAN, Mont. - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that it will determine whether wolverines deserve full protection of the Endangered Species Act by 2013. Wolverines in the contiguous U.S. were added to the Candidate species list last December because of their low numbers and the threats posed to their habitat by global warming, but continue to await federal protection. The best data available suggests there are fewer than 300 animals across the entire western U.S., with only 35 individuals--just a tenth of the population--successfully breeding.
"This is welcome news indeed for the wolverine," said David Gaillard, Rocky Mountain representative for Defenders of Wildlife. "The Emergency Room waiting area was crowded when the wolverine entered last December, and we knew the species couldn't afford to wait very long for ESA protections. But we're hopeful that, by making a final listing decision within the next two years, the Fish and Wildlife Service will have wolverines on a path to recovery in the very near future."
"With today's agreement, the wolverine has a shot at survival," said Noah Greenwald, endangered species director at the Center for Biological Diversity. "Saving the wolverine will require swift action to address global warming, which is gravely threatening spring snowpacks the wolverine needs to survive."
"Can anyone say an animal this rare is not at serious risk of disappearing forever? Its numbers are dangerously low. Its population spans five western states, with dispersers in two others. Plus it is at direct risk from climate change, a problem that the federal government has failed to fully grapple with." said Tim Preso, attorney for Earthjustice. "It is high time that the wolverine received long-awaited legal protections."
"The wolverine is in dire straits," said Dave Werntz with Conservation Northwest. "Its current plight is exactly what Congress had in mind when it passed the Endangered Species Act in order to save America's wildlife from extinction."
The following conservation organizations have sought to protect the wolverine under the Endangered Species Act since petitioning the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to do so in the Year 2000: Center for Biological Diversity, Conservation Northwest, Defenders of Wildlife, Earthjustice, Friends of the Clearwater, Greater Yellowstone Coalition, Idaho Conservation League, Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance, Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center and Wyoming Outdoor Council.]
Read the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's announcement regarding the revised workplan.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's wolverine webpage.
Visit the Wolverine Network, a new site dedicated to wolverine research and conservation.
Watch PBS Nature's documentary on wolverines, "Chasing the Phantom."
These hardy members of the weasel family thrive in high elevations and deep snow, where they dig dens to raise their young.
In the past 50 years or so, wolverine populations have begun to recover from heavy trapping and poisoning in the early 1900s.
Shawn Sartorius is the lead wolverine biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. "This is one of the few cases where things are looking pretty rosy right now but the future scenario is one that doesn't look good."
If the recommendation goes forward, the wolverine will join the polar bear and several types of seals for protection under the Endangered Species Act because of threats from climate change.
Wildlife managers believe there are around 300 wolverines left in the lower 48 states.]]>
Thirteen is a lucky number for wolverines. Thirteen years since conservationists including Conservation Northwest urged their protection under the federal Endangered Species Act, the US Fish and Wildlife Service has announced its proposal to list the wolverine in the lower-48 states as a threatened species.
The threatened listing will help protect wolverines and promote recovery. The Service acknowledged that wolverines deserve protection because of their small population size and threats posed to their habitat by climate change and other disturbances to their high elevation habitat.
The move will bring new resources to help Washington's recovering wolverine population.
"The remote, rugged, and snowy North Cascades are ideal wolverine habitat," said Dave Werntz, Science and Conservation Director with Conservation Northwest. "Protection under the Endangered Species Act will help our wolverine population survive an uncertain future with a warming climate, shrinking snowpack, and increasingly fragmented habitat."
Federal researchers have been studying Washington's wolverines since 2005. They're tracking a total of eleven wolverines in the Cascades, seven females and four males that inhabit the North Cascades transboundary region, and have located two natal den sites.
Conservation Northwest's concurrent citizen monitoring project has also documented three additional wolverines in the Cascades using unique chest markings and DNA from hair snags. Read the full 2012 monitoring report.
Washington State now plays a critical role in recovery of wolverines. We need connected landscapes and habitat to sustain wolverines here.
Read the press release
A wild Christmas for wolverines: 2012 inter-agency wolverine study update
Wolverines caught on film: 2012 citizen monitoring highlights wolverines' return]]>
The action was prompted by a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity, based in Arizona, and Defenders of Wildlife, whose efforts to get federal protections for the species were rebuffed during the administration of President George W. Bush.
About 300 of the elusive animals live and forage in the high mountains of the Northwest.
If made final, the proposal to list the animal as threatened would put wolverines, like polar bears, elkhorn coral and staghorn coral, into a small but growing group of species whose survival is threatened by global warming, rather than traditional threats like predators or logging.
"Extensive climate modeling indicates that the wolverine's snowpack habitat will be greatly reduced and fragmented in the coming years due to climate warming, thereby threatening the species with extinction," the proposed rule said.
The fierce predators, whose wide feet and sharp claws keep them agile during mountain winters, weigh 25 to 45 pounds when fully grown but will fight a bear that strays into their territory. They raise newborn kits in burrows deep beneath snows that do not melt until mid-May.
After being trapped to near-extinction as part of the 19th-century fur trade, wolverines were so rare that they fell out of the public consciousness or were confused with wolves, an entirely different species. Even the actor Hugh Jackman, who plays the Marvel Comics character Wolverine in the "X-Men" movies, recently said he had prepared for the role by studying wolves.
But for scientists and naturalists who monitor the species, wolverines are a source of fascination with intricate biological mechanisms, including a thyroid that supercharges their metabolism and an extra coat for insulation. Their jaws are strong enough to crack the frozen bones of their prey. The new proposal, as written, would not restrict logging or winter recreation — like snowmobiling — in the wolverine's habitat, but it would end the intentional trapping of the animals.
Timothy Preso, a lawyer handling the lawsuit, praised the proposal, saying it offered "a welcome promise of new efforts to protect the mountains where wolverines are found and the intervening lands they'll need."]]>
Federal wildlife officials Friday proposed Endangered Species Act protections for the wolverine in the Lower 48 states. That's a step twice denied under the Bush administration, then delayed in 2010 when the Obama administration said other imperiled species had priority.
It likely means an end to trapping the animals for their fur outside Alaska.
But federal officials said they won't use the animal's status as a means to regulate greenhouse gases blamed in climate change. And other human activities – from snowmobiling and ski resorts to timber harvest and – would not be curtailed because they do not appear to be significant threats to wolverines, officials said.
There are an estimated 250 to 300 wolverines in the contiguous U.S., clustered in small, isolated groups primarily in the Northern Rockies of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and Washington. Larger populations persist in Alaska and Canada.
Maxing out at 40 pounds and tough enough to stand up to grizzly bears, the animals will be no match for anticipated declines in deep mountain snows female wolverines need to establish dens and raise their young, scientists said.
In some areas, such as central Idaho, suitable habitat could disappear entirely, officials said.
Yet because those losses could take decades to unfold, federal wildlife officials said there's still time to bolster the population, including by reintroducing them to the high mountains of Colorado.
"This is a species there is still time to do something about," said Mike Thabault, ecological services director for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's mountain-prairie region.
Wildlife advocates, who sued to force the government to act on the issue, said the animal's plight should be used by the Obama administration to leverage tighter restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions.
As with the polar bear, the government is sidestepping that thorny proposition with the wolverine, and said in Friday's proposal that listing the animal as threatened "will not regulate greenhouse gas emissions."
Thabault said the agency would be on tenuous scientific grounds if it tried to draw a link between specific emission sources and impacts on wolverines.
Advocates expressed disappointment, with Noah Greenwald from the Center for Biological Diversity saying the administration "should not be exempting greenhouse gas emissions from the Endangered Species Act."
A Washington, D.C., attorney, John Martin, who represented the energy industry during litigation over polar bears, said he expects no change in the administration's policy against using endangered wildlife to regulate emissions.
Friday's proposal also allows Colorado's wildlife agency to reintroduce an experimental population of wolverines that eventually could spill into neighboring portions of New Mexico and Wyoming.
It would shut down wolverine trapping in Montana, the only one of the Lower 48 states where the practice is still allowed an annual quota of five animals.
This year's trapping season was blocked by a state court order, but Montana officials hoped to restore trapping next year.
Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks spokesman Ron Aasheim said the state will review the federal proposal and had not settled on a response.
Once found throughout the Rocky Mountains and in California's Sierra Nevada mountain range, wolverines were wiped out across most of the U.S. by the 1930s due to unregulated trapping and poisoning campaigns, said Bob Inman, a wolverine researcher with the Wildlife Conservation Society.
In the decades since, they have largely recovered in the Northern Rockies but not in other parts of their historical range.
While reintroducing the animals further south might seem counterintuitive, Inman said Colorado's abundance of 14,000-foot mountains would make it well suited as a refuge for the animals as warmer temperatures set in at lower elevations.
Only one wolverine currently inhabits the state, a male that wandered down several years ago from northern Wyoming's Teton Range, about 500 miles away. Inman said Colorado has enough high-mountain territory to support up to 100 more of the animals.
"That's like a 30 percent increase in their population size," he said.
Any reintroduction into Colorado would require approval from state wildlife commissioners and the Legislature, Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokesman Randy Hampton said.
Representatives of the state's ski and agriculture industries in the past have raised concerns that bringing wolverines back could hurt their industries. Hampton said no decision has been made and it could take years to work out all the details.
Other areas where wolverines once roamed also could serve as future refuges.
Those include portions of Utah, Oregon's Cascade Range, Wyoming's Big Horn Mountains and the Sierra Nevada, said Shawn Sartorius, a biologist with the Fish and Wildlife Service based in Montana.]]>
He hopes the tasty new bait will lure one of the newest carnivores cruising these snowy woods to trigger a remote camera that will snap its photo: Gulo gulo, the wiley wolverine.
Once shot on sight, trapped and poisoned as vermin, wolverines were extinct in Washington by the 1930s. But they are making a comeback, repopulating portions of their historic home range for the first time in decades. On Friday, they were proposed for listing as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
Wolverines used to range along the Cascade Crest from the Canadian border all the way to Mount Rainier, but now remain exceedingly rare, with perhaps just 25 animals in Washington, and only about 250 to 300 in the Lower 48.
The wolverine's return to Washington is amazing scientists. "We are witnessing what we think is the expansion of wolverine into their former range," said Keith Aubry, research wildlife biologist with the U.S. Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station in Olympia. Aubry for eight winters had led the first-ever radio-tracking study of wolverines in Washington.
Genetic testing shows the animals they are finding can be traced to populations in Canada that recolonized here once the persecution stopped. Now, those animals, once just visitors, have established resident populations — and they are spreading. "We have growing evidence of them using larger and larger areas over time," Aubry said.
So far, scientists have confirmed resident wolverine populations from the North Cascades to as far south as this bait lure south of Highway 2 west of Leavenworth.
"When you see a species like wolverine that needs openness and connected habitat coming here all on its own, this is the celebration moment. It's the success, the reward," said Jen Watkins of Conservation Northwest, a Seattle nonprofit, as she dunked pine-branch tips into a bottle of foul-smelling scent lure. So foul, she packed it on snowshoes up the Icicle Creek drainage in a double plastic bag, sealed in a kayaker's dry bag, and handled it only with rubber gloves. "There!" she said, hastily screwing the top on the bottle, "Now all we need is a visitor!"
Even as wolverines rebound, threats loom in their future, with climate change over the next 100 years expected to melt out 63 percent of the landscapes where deep snow that wolverine need to survive persists into May. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Friday proposed listing wolverine for protection as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act in at least six Western states, including Washington. Any decision to list would be at least a year away, after an extensive public comment period.
Gulo gulo
Smaller than a Labrador retriever, Gulo gulo, or "the gluttonous glutton," is pound-for-pound among the most ferocious carnivores in Washington, capable of sniffing out frozen carcasses and tunneling through five feet of snow to crack open bones and tear apart even frozen carrion. Their powerful jaws and molars are specially adapted to shear off chunks of rock-hard flesh and bone.
Wolverines roam Washington's wildest country in its most punishing weather, devouring miles with a loping stride and cruising over even deep powdery snow with oversized, snowshoe-like feet.
Their long, thick, brown-and-gold coat sheds frost and is underlaid with a soft insulating layer of fur that defeats the most brutal cold. Semi-retractable claws enable them to climb trees and scrabble up and down rocky slopes.
"They are the superheroes of the animal world," said Shawn Sartorius, a wildlife biologist based in Helena, Montana, for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. "When you follow the tracks of these things, you see they are not taking the easy way around; they will go straight over mountaintops, craggy peaks, the rockiest, steepest, cliffiest place; they will go right over that in the middle of winter, at night."
John Rohrer, supervisory wildlife biologist with the U.S. Forest Service, Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest based in Winthrop, has been astounded to learn in his work on Aubry's research team just how much territory wolverines cover, even in winter.
"They live in places that are frozen in suspended animation more than six months a year and one of the few animals that is not is the wolverine," Rohrer said. "The North Cascades in winter are pretty hostile to life. Most animals will avoid it in winter or hibernate. It's amazing to see how they move in rugged, remote terrain in 10 to 12 feet of snow. In summer there are cougar and black bear and bobcat and coyotes and great horned owls. In winter time, it is only the wolverines."
A wolverine trapped and radio-collared by Aubry's team covered more than 14 air miles over the peaks of the North Cascades from a recent Saturday afternoon to Monday, "and if you were to lay it flat it covered double the distance," Rohrer marveled.
The dominant radio-collared wolverine in that drainage — dubbed Rocky by the researchers — has been known to cover the home ranges of two or three females, or about 700 square miles. "And that's a 30-pound animal," Rohrer said. "Most dogs are bigger than that."
And wolverine are ferocious. "When you see one in a live trap you never forget it," Rohrer said. "They are growling, trying to bluff you, they are not cowering in the corner, if you crack open the lid they are charging and coming up to the front, snapping their jaws and drooling. They put on quite a show."
But hikers have nothing to worry about: Wolverines are primarily carnivorous scavengers, feasting on a wide variety of foods, including carrion of every type, usually elk and deer. But they will also take live small mammals, including pikas, marmots, ground squirrels, porcupines and snowshoe hares. They will sometimes devour bugs, berries, eggs and roots.
For now, ensuring wolverine survival is about planning for the future, Watkins said, by preserving and providing safe access to the strongholds the wide-ranging wolverine are returning to now. Highway 2, for instance, is a travel corridor wolverines will need to cross if they are to make it as far south as Mount Rainier. They haven't been seen there yet, but one lone wolverine already has been documented on Mount Adams.
"For these animals to come back to these places on their own, and take up residence there again, sticking around, and calling it home," Watkins said, "That is thrilling."]]>
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Casey commented on his unique 'job' as the show's presenter, "It's not work when you're staring at a rare mountain lion in the wild, getting face to face with a mysterious wolverine or going nose to nose with an aggressive polar bear; you just have to take the cuts and bruises, frostbite and sweat that goes with it."
Over the course of five weeks, six new episodes will premiere featuring compelling wildlife adventure stories in some of America's most pristine and untouched wilderness areas. Simply put: it's epic wildlife drama, as you've never seen it before. AMERICA THE WILD represents the third consecutive season for Grizzly Creek Films programming airing on Nat Geo WILD.
Series lineup is as follows:
Bracing himself against the fierce elements in the frozen wilds of Alaska and British Columbia, Casey Anderson finds himself on his own "mission impossible" – a quest to find and film an elusive animal whose legend is almost larger than life, the Wolverine. Known by numerous common names including "devil bear," "glutton," and "hyena of the North," the Wolverine is perhaps the least-understood carnivore in all of North America. And it's no wonder . . . because, as Casey discovers, this is a mission where the odds of success are truly stacked against him.
Peering at dawn over the North Rim of Arizona's Grand Canyon into a mile deep chasm nearly eighteen miles across, Casey's backpack feels a bit heavier, knowing that he will soon be standing on the other side. The harsh reality of living in this landscape is made explicit by the trailhead sign that warns of death from dehydration, exposure, and exhaustion for unprepared hikers. Likewise, life in the desert is no picnic for the wildlife that survives day-in and day-out through brutal extremes. But as Casey profiles the rare and endangered wildlife living on the edge of the abyss, he learns skills that will serve him well along his grueling trek.
Casey's newest protégé, "Casey-Junior," is a six-week old ambassador Black Bear cub who will learn to walk, swim, climb, and forage, all for the first time under Casey's careful tutelage; but what starts out small doesn't stay that way as Casey embarks on an all-out quest to find Black Bears in the wildest country east of the Mississippi: Maine's "Big Woods." In this vibrant ecosystem, ancient rugged mountains, fertile bogs, rich moose habitat, and truly majestic wilderness hiking converge to form an unforgettable backdrop to Casey's quest to find and film Black Bears.
A strange and puzzling story is swirling through the land of the midnight sun: Polar Bears and Brown Bears, isolated from one another for millennia by geography, climate, and behavior, are suddenly appearing side-by-side – prompting Casey Anderson to embark on a fact-finding mission to the Arctic and put Brutus, his nine-hundred pound Brown Bear, through the paces of "Life as a Polar Bear" in the hopes of solving one of the natural world's most intriguing new mysteries. The stage is set for a remarkable contest: Brown bear vs. Polar bear. Which species is the ultimate survivor? And can we predict the eventual victor in this, one of the most compelling wildlife riddles of our time?
Casey Anderson sets out to track one of North America's most elusive ghosts: the mountain lion. Casey's longtime friend and cat expert Tyler Johnerson is on hand to help him in his quest to witness "the ghost of the Rockies." Armed with specialized camera technology, they hope to capture never-before-seen footage of mountain lions and their cubs living in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem. A nearly impossible challenge given that this formidable and cunning predator is capable of jumping vertically nearly 20 feet in a single leap.
The Gulo gulo, or wolverine, of course.
It sounds like the makings of a riddle, but eight years ago, as a team of biologists set out to study the wolverine, they were hard pressed to answer even basic questions surrounding the elusive animal.
With some pushing to list the wolverine as a threatened or endangered species, the lack of data was troubling. Even if the wolverine was listed for protection, no one at the time knew how to conserve the species.
"We needed the basic biological information so, if listed or not, we know what to do and what's important," said Bob Inman, director of the Greater Yellowstone Wolverine Program for the Wildlife Conservation Society.
"Our job was to go out and capture these animals. We needed to radio-track them to find out where they went, how they lived, how they bred, what they ate, how they died and when they reproduced."
Their eight-year field effort to study the wolverine wrapped up this winter with the first of several articles appearing in the Journal of Wildlife Management.
The results, compiled in cooperation with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, Wyoming Game and Fish and the U.S. Forest Service, among others, have already helped biologists better understand the resourceful animal.
Now the study will shift gears as wildlife managers in several states begin building conservation strategies to maintain the nation's small wolverine population and protect it from future challenges, Inman said.
Slow reproduction
Tracking what Steve Cain of the National Park Service described as "the winter endurance athlete of the animal world" wasn't easy.
The team of biologists entered the snowbound terrain surrounding Yellowstone National Park to find the dogged wolverine.
They climbed to elevations over 9,000 feet to capture and collar 30 animals with radio-tracking devices. What they witnessed over the next few years surpassed their wildest expectations.
"Wolverines have an incredible ability to move," Inman said. "They're only 25 to 30 pounds, but they're using a home range -- a territory -- that's 300 square miles. Even a grizzly uses a smaller area than they do."
The wolverine has adapted to make the best of its harsh alpine conditions, though survival isn't easy, even for the well prepared.
Two wolverines were killed in avalanches during the study, Inman noted. Another wolverine challenged a bear 10 times its size for rights to an elk carcass.
"In order to pool together the resources they need, they have to cover a lot of ground to get by in those environments," Inman said. "As a result, they naturally exist in low numbers and they reproduce slowly."
Wolverines live 12 to 14 years on average and females don't start reproducing until age 4. They produce just one or two cubs every other year.
The young are typically born in late February and early March, emerging into a harsh, cold world.
"They're these tiny young that don't weight half a pound, born at 9,000 feet in avalanche chutes with freezing temperatures and snow covering the den site," Inman said. "That's pretty rugged, but it fits the wolverine's reputation."
Small population
Wolverines enjoyed a historic range up and down the Rocky Mountains and thrived at high elevations in Washington state and the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California.
But by around 1930, Inman said, the wolverine was nearly eliminated from the lower 48 states. He blames unregulated trapping and the poisoning of predators for the animal's near demise.
Over the last half-century, scientists have noted the wolverine's slow return from Canada. The animal has begun to reoccupy its historic range in Montana and parts of Idaho and Wyoming.
One animal travelled more than 500 miles from Grand Teton Nation Park to Rocky Mountain National Park. It was the first wolverine documented in Colorado in nearly 100 years.
Inman estimates that around 250 wolverines now occupy a handful of island mountain ranges, most of them in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho. They depend upon snow cover at high elevations to survive.
"They're in all the places we expect them to be in Montana," Inman said. "We assume they're in Idaho as well, though no one has looked to see if they're there or not."
Scientists also have documented wolverines high in Wyoming's Wind River Range, along with the Washakie and North Absaroka wilderness areas surrounding Yellowstone Park.
"There's a line somewhere in Wyoming where they are and where they're not," Inman said. "We're not real clear on exactly where that is."
The study, which wrapped up this winter, tracked the wolverines across multiple jurisdictions, with a complex mix of land ownership and management authorities.
Conservation of wolverines, the study suggests, will require coordinated efforts across the Western United States to aid in survival, reproduction and gene flow between isolated populations of animals.
"This is an animal that has to leave one island of high mountain habitat and cross valley bottoms to get to another one," Inman said. "Connectivity between these mountain ranges can be an issue."
Authors of the research paper include the Wildlife Conservation Society, Colorado State University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Science.
The U.S. Forest Service, Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks, the National Park Service, Wyoming Game and Fish and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service also contributed to the project.
"We started with the field work and now we're moving to the stage of trying to do something with the information," Inman said. "We need to work with willing landowners and interact with land managers."]]>
Wolverine populations are at an all time low, and the threat of global warming and habitat degradation puts them at risk for extinction.
The best available data suggests that there are fewer than 300 wolverines across the entire western U.S. and only about 10 percent of the population is successfully breeding.
"The wolverine is in dire straits," said Dave Werntz with Conservation Northwest. "Its current plight is exactly what Congress had in mind when it passed the Endangered Species Act in order to save America's wildlife from extinction."
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agreed on a listing determination date of no later than September 30, 2013, putting wolverines near the top of the list of more than 250 other candidate species that may be listed in the next five years.
Conservation Northwest is one of the conservation organizations who have long sought to protect the wolverine under the Endangered Species Act, since first petitioning the USFWS to do so in the year 2000.
Read the press release
Researcher Audrey Magoun found the wolverine tracks in the snow on April 17 while hiking to a remote camera site set up to detect wolverines. She followed the tracks for about a mile until they left the river bottom headed into the high country.
"From the size of the track, it is probably a male," said Magoun who has dedicated her career to studying wolverine since she received her Ph.D. in 1978.
"This is the first confirmation of a wolverine in Wallowa County," said Vic Coggins, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife district wildlife biologist. "We've always thought it was good habitat, and we've had reports but nothing we could verify until now."
Magoun also believed the habitat conditions were right, which was why she and research assistant, pilot and husband, Pat Valkenburg, undertook this winter's survey in the Eagle Cap Wilderness.
"There is a breeding population in the Payette Forest in Idaho and a breeding population in the North Cascades in Washington," she said. "In fact, we couldn't believe wolverine wouldn't be here. They travel large distances."
As part of the survey, 14 baited field camera sites were set up and several aerial flights made. None of the cameras have yet yielded a photo of a wolverine, but 80 percent of the cameras had photos of American marten and a few native red fox were detected. Biologists believe these animals are probably the native foxes that were once common in the Wallowa Mountains.
Coggins is interested in the data on marten and red fox in the higher elevations. "It's great to know what species are using these areas -- it's indicative of the health of the habitat and helps with management decisions," he said.
According to Magoun, the next question is: Is this a lone wolverine or is the area occupied? She hopes to be back next winter field season to try and answer that question.
Funding and logistical support for the survey comes from an Oregon Conservation Strategy Implementation Grant(federal State Wildlife Grant), The Wolverine Foundation, Inc., the Wildlife Conservation Society and private individuals including Magoun and Valkenburg, Alaska residents, who use their own plane for aerial surveys.]]>
The effort is intended to help state officers identify and investigate illegal killing of rare wildlife "and other extreme cases of big game and other wildlife killings," according to Conservation Northwest.
The state provides up to $500 for information that helps resolve a felony wildlife case.
Contributions from Conservation Northwest and others increased the rewards to $7,500 for information leading to the conviction of anyone who has killed a gray wolf in the state, $5,000 for grizzly bear, wolverine, lynx or fisher killings, and $3,000 for "egregious violations" involving deer or elk, the group said.
Conservation Northwest said there is "an indication" four or more wolves may have been killed from the Lookout Pack in the Methow Valley, and that a grizzly bear from the Selkirk Mountains was illegally killed several years ago.
"We in Washington do so much to protect our wildlife and their habitat as our natural heritage," Conservation Northwest Executive Director Mitch Friedman said. "It takes less than a second for a coward to wipe out that investment. Let's make sure the bad guys are held accountable."]]>
Late last spring I had the rare privilege of seeing a wolverine in the wild while out riding on our ranch in the high mountain desert of southwest Idaho. It was one of an estimated 250-300 that still survive in the lower 48 states according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, mostly in the North Cascades of Washington State and Northern Rockies. Of course, I didn't know any of this at the time. In fact, the only wolverine I'd ever heard of was the mascot for the University of Michigan.
What I did know was that my steady old Paint, Keith Richards, got very tense when he saw a large, brown furry animal cross our path about 25 yards away at the edge of a steep avalanche chute. It was like nothing I'd ever seen in 15 years up here at 7,200 feet. It was about the size of a small bear (or a big cub) but it didn't move like a bear—more like a raccoon or badger but a lot faster. And move it did, with all deliberate speed, so I only got one quick look at its long bushy tail, short legs, narrow face and funny little ears before it disappeared.
I didn't have a camera, but the image stayed with me until I got back to the house and looked it up. He wasn't hard to find or identify. "Gulo gulo luscus", the North American wolverine, largest member of the weasel family. I had no idea these magnificent creatures lived in Idaho but I'm no native son, so I asked a couple of friends and neighbors who are.
Jimmy Brown built a cabin on the North Fork of the Big Lost River in the late '50s and has hunted and fished here all his life. "I've never seen one alive, but they were definitely here, at least at one time," he told me. "I came across a dead one maybe 30 years ago that had been hit by a car just down the road from my place."
His cowboy friend, Justin Howard, agreed. He'd spotted a wolverine north of our ranch several years ago when he was a rider for the local cattlemen's association. "It was in up in the snow. He had a collar on, so I called Fish and Game. I heard they tracked him down to Boise."
That's a long way from where we live, probably close to 300 miles as the crow flies. While my friends are entertaining storytellers, I've found their tall tales tend to be true. (Jimmy claims he once killed a cougar with a bow and arrow when the animal was attacking his dog and he has a picture to prove it.) So I decided to find out more about this intriguing animal I had just seen.
The first thing I stumbled across on the web was a 2009 Research Summary of the Greater Yellowstone Wolverine Program which contained the account of a young male wolverine (designated M56) that had traveled336 miles from northwestern Wyoming to Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado.
According to this well-documented report, M-56 crossed the Great Divide Basin, somehow got across nine major highways, including Interstate 80 on Memorial Day weekend, passed through six national forests, three Bureau of Land Management Districts and one national park while dodging numerous subdivisions and, in doing so, became the first verified occurrence of a wolverine in Colorado since 1919, nearly a century ago.
So what I had stumbled across was not only an endangered species on the brink of extinction, but a heroic, unbelievably tough, resourceful animal that clearly, despite all obstacles, was not ready to go quietly into the night without a fight.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has published a trove of information for those of us who know next to nothing about wolverines or the threats to their survival in the lower 48. Adult males can weigh up to 46 pounds. Females are smaller, 17 to 26 pounds, and they look, as I had observed, like a small bear. And wolverines move around with territories ranging from 50 to 500 square miles.
Primarily carnivorous scavengers of the carcasses of large animals like elk, deer and moose, they also prey on picas, marmots, grounds squirrels, porcupines and snowshoe hare. With 38 strong teeth and leveraged jaws, they can crush the strongest of bones.
There are still a lot of wolverines in Canada (15,000-20,000) living in a variety of northern landscapes. And sketchy historical records suggest they once lived in the Great Lakes region, but were "extirpated"— an obscure term favored by scientists meaning completely destroyed or eradicated. So the University of Michigan Wolverines would appear to be the only survivors there.
In Washington, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, where the last of the wolverines in the lower 48 states survive in remote, high mountains so they can find deep snow in late winter and spring for their dens, females reproduce only every other year on average, giving them one of the lowest known reproductive rates for mammals. The 2009 Greater Yellowstone Wolverine Program, which followed following M56 across the west, also radio monitored 20 adult females and found a reproductive rate of approximately one cub every four years.
In addition to this low birth rate, Fish and Wildlife says the greatest potential threat to the North American wolverine is loss of habitat due to increased summer temperatures and reduced snowpack caused by global warming. This would cause even further loss of "connectivity" between the remote high mountain areas where this wide ranging animal lives, breeds, and gives birth in deep snow dens which, in turn, could threaten their genetic diversity.
Another potential threat to the elusive, seldom seen wolverine, is the recent dramatic increase in winter recreation in remote mountain areas, the use of powerful new snowmobiles and more back country skiing.
Given the disastrously low population level of wolverines in the contiguous United States (less than 500 is the most optimistic estimate I could find anywhere) it would seem to be a prime candidate for protection under the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) but, surprisingly, this is not the case.
After evaluating all available information, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced last December that while wolverines in the West warranted ESA protection, listing them would, at this time, be "precluded by the need to address other listings of higher priority." It said, however, that wolverines would be "added to the list under the ESA and will be proposed for listing when funding and workload for other listing actions allow."
Among other legalistic roadblocks, the Service noted that "while recreation has the potential to affect the wolverine, it does not currently seem to be suppressing populations…and the threat of climate change has not so far resulted in any detectable population-level effects to the species."
This ruling leaves management of the wolverine in state hands where they are either classified as a state endangered species or protected from hunting and trapping as a non-game animal in every western state but Montana, which allows a very limited take. (This winter, state wildlife officials allow a total quota of five per year).
While the December ruling disappoints Jonathan Oppenheimer, Senior Conservation Associate at the Idaho Conservation League that was a party to the action, he points out that the ruling does at least reverse a 2008 determination under the Bush Administration that said wolverines did not warrant protection in the continental U.S. at all because of the large population in Canada.
Noah Greenwald of the Center for Biological Diversity, also a party to the legal settlement, is not so sanguine. At the time of the ruling he was quoted as saying the Obama administration is just "shuffling papers" while wolverines are in desperate need of ESA protection.
I couldn't agree more. There may be more deserving candidates in the current backlog of other species awaiting protection, but to me, a layperson not schooled in government or science, making our wolverine an endangered species without further delay seems like a no-brainer.
How much data do we need to ensure that this shy, elusive, mid-level predator survives another day among us? Unlike the wolf, the wolverine doesn't endanger domestic livestock or stand accused of decimating game animals. At worst, protecting it would only inconvenience a few snowmobilers and backcountry skiers, and the wolverine harvest in Montana, which doesn't amount to much, anyway, would be closed.
Regulations and rules and bureaucracy and further studies aside, we really have no excuse not to protect this unique, magnificent animal in our so-called civilized society to the full extent of the law. If we can't summon up the common decency to do this without further delay, I fear that we will be visiting the last of our native wolverines in zoos, along with the Bengal Tiger.
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The students definitely set Mount Union apart from other colleges and universities. It was something I noticed the first time I was on campus, how inherently nice everyone was by doing the littlest things
- Jessica Bennett '16
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- Kyle and Nathan Dreger are Presidential Scholars
- January 31, 2013
ALLIANCE, Ohio — Twice Exceptional.
Only six students are awarded the full-tuition Presidential Scholarship at the University of Mount Union each year, making the honor one that's hard to come by.See Full Article
- Raider Rally to be Held February 4
- January 24, 2013
The University of Mount Union invites the Alliance community to celebrate the Purple Raider football team's 11th NCAA Division III National Championship with a "Raider Rally" at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, February 4.See Full Article
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ALLIANCE, Ohio – The University of Mount Union has launched a free mobile application that is available for download from the app store on both Android and Apple devices. Users simply need to search "Mount Union" to find the application.See Full Article
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Gerard finds something sort of weird about Frank and Wilona's relationship. Rated for language, that's it.
After introductions and frail attempts at conversation had been made by Frank, Gerard squirmed in next to him. The seat was uncomfortably small, so the two were squished. Not that Gerard minded, though. He found the other boy quite good-looking. Ever since they had met a while ago, the only thoughts on his mind had been Frank, Frank, and Frank. It disturbed him a bit because he had never had those kinds of feelings about anyone of the same sex ever before. He knew there was nothing wrong with those emotions, but he was just not used to it yet. He shuddered and took a glance at Frank.
Frank was still thinking about Wilona. The cookies, the damned cookies were still upsetting him. He did not get the "big picture", as they called it. He was hopelessly lost in the pit she had dug for him. The exit route was apparent to everyone staring down at him from above. The only problem was that he couldn't see that giant hole, couldn't climb out. He stared at his tattooed fingers. What had he done wrong?
Wilona looked at these two guys sitting across from her. She found them both ugly, although Gerard was slightly better looking. There was also a certain air of confidence floating around him. Despite herself, she had to say that there was something indescribable that she found very attractive about him. She looked at Frank with the opposite reaction. It took every ounce of willpower contained in her petite body to keep her from wrinkling her nose in disgust. All the imperfections seemed to stick out even more today. She hated him. She blamed him for the fact that her "hot boyfriend" cheated on her. It was somehow his fault that this all happened. Oh, she wasn't going to break up with Frank and make it easy for him. Torture was her method.
The mustached waiter returned shortly to take orders from the silent table. The distinctly different orders were brought to the customers in a matter of minutes.
Wilona took a bite of her pineapple pizza and responded with a disgusted noise.
"This is horrible! There's like...weird shit in it," she complained.
Frank looked at his own unbitten slice and picked it up to offer it to her, "Here, you can have mine."
"Ew, that's even grosser," she wrinkled her small nose.
"But I didn't bite it..." said Frank.
"Yeah but you touched it. It's contaminated,"
"Oh, okay..." he muttered.
Gerard watched this dialogue with a raised eyebrow. It struck him as odd, what Wilona had said. Maybe she was just a germaphobe. Yes, that was probably it. But Gerard had a feeling that there was more to it than that. His eyebrows furrowed as he listened on.
"Well, do you want me to go talk to the person at the front desk?" Frank offered.
"No, you'll probably screw it up and end up paying him or something," she stood up and walked to the front desk, her hips swaying as she walked.
Gerard sucked in and stared after her, "Damn Frank, your girlfriend's a bitch."
Frank's jaw dropped, "What did you just say?"
Gerard turned to face his friend as best as he could in the small space, "She doesn't treat you right,"
"I've known you for barely a day. It's not up to you to decide if she treats me right or not."
"But she doesn't like you, at all. Isn't that obvious? She's a total whore. She's probably flirting with that guy at the front desk. You deserve way better than her, dude."
Frank's face turned a bright shade of red, "Shut up, or just get the fuck away from me. I don't appreciate you insulting my girlfriend when you don't even know her."
Gerard sighed. He knew he had to give up on this argument if he ever wanted to see Frank again. Oh boy, he wanted to see Frank again. And he wanted to do a whole bunch of other things too, which he would be better left stored safely inside his mind. Anyway, Frank was probably right; he shouldn't judge Wilona after just one lunch. He scratched the back of his head and apologized quickly. Fortunately for Gerard, Frank was a very forgiving guy and was friendly again in a matter of seconds. A discussion about The Misfits was brought up to change the uncomfortable topic. Once Wilona returned—with a brand new slice of pineapple pizza—the table was soundless once more. Gerard found the silence both annoying and strange. He thought couples actually talked to each other. He didn't really have experience with this stuff though, so he knew he could be wrong. During the rest of the meal, he stared at Frank. It was quite entertaining to watch him eat. All his cute little mannerisms came out. Like the way he moved his chin so that the pizza sauce would not end up on his face. Gerard laughed to himself. The boy was simply ah-dorable.
The time finally came when Frank and Wilona had to leave. Gerard moved aside to let Frank out. He followed them to the door but did not walk outside with them.
Wilona continued towards her car, but Frank noticed this and turned around, "Aren't you going home?"
"Oh...no..." Gerard grinned, "I kind of forgot to pay the rent. So I guess I'm stuck at Papa John's for a while. Hopefully, they'll let me stay the night."
"Well you could stay with me in my apartment if you'd like." Frank said.
"Are you fucking serious? Would you let me?!"
"Yeah, sure. I have an extra room." Frank smiled.
"Thanks man, I love you!" Gerard unexpectedly hugged him tightly.
Frank pulled away hastily, blushing. He was not usually a touchy-feely kind of person but to his surprise, he liked that hug. There was something about how Gerard's arms wrapped around him in the most perfect way; it scared him. He shoved his hands into his pockets and mumbled some sort of response.
Gerard knew he had left some sort of impact on Frank with his hug, despite how impulsive it had been. He grinned to himself. Oh, yeah.
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"SNL" veteran Kristen Wiig, who left the show nearly a year ago, returned to host Saturday, alongside "Bridesmaids" actress Maya Rudolph and "Superbad" star Jonah Hill.
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"Saturday Night Live" alum Kristen Wiig has signed up for "Anchorman: The Legend Continues," the sequel to the 2004 comedy hit, joining her fellow "SNL" cohort Will Ferrell.
Comediennes Kristen Wiig and Drew Barrymore have a lot in common -- including their taste in men -- specifically Strokes rocker Fabrizio Moretti.
"Extra's" AJ Calloway caught up with "Mad Men" star Jon Hamm, who returns to season five of the glossy 1960's AMC drama this month after being off the air for nearly a year and a half. The actor hinted, "It'll be a continuation of the story we set out to tell five seasons ago."
In the season four finale, viewers were taken by surprise as Don Draper abruptly proposed to his secretary/girlfriend, Megan. The new season debuts with a special two-hour premiere on Sunday, March 25 at 9/8C on AMC.
Actress Megan Fox graces the cover of the March issue of Manhattan magazine, and although she's known for her beauty, she told the publication, "I was never the pretty girl."
Fox's high school yearbook photo, as posted by the Daily Mail, proves otherwise. The 25-year-old "Transformers" star also told Manhattan magazine that she was, "abrasive, obnoxious" and felt like a "loner" in her adolescence.
"Bridesmaids" stars Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph and Melissa McCarthy brightened the 2012 SAG Awards.
Armed with beer, champagne and vodka, the funny women introduced their film, up for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture -- and a new SAG Awards drinking game.
"You have to take a drink every time, and I mean every time, you hear the word 'Scorsese,'" McCarthy explained, toting a bottle of Grey Goose. "You'd be surprised how much that comes up in just casual conversation because people like to throw that thing around."
"Bridesmaids" funnyladies Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy dished with "Extra's" Mario Lopez about a sequel to their smash hit comedy, nominated for Best Comedy or Musical at the 2012 Golden Globes.
"It's such an urban legend," exclaimed McCarthy. "There's no talk of a 'Bridesmaids 2,' but if those girls decide to do it again, I'm in!"
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No doubt you've heard about Republican Bobby Baker's decision not to seek re-election to the state Public Service Commission.
Here's the lead of this morning's piece by my AJC colleague Margaret Newkirk:
The longest serving member of the state Public Service Commission – and the commission's best known advocate for utility consumers – won't be running for re-election this year, the AJC has learned.
Commissioner Robert Baker will leave the regulatory body at the end of the year, after 18 years as a watchdog over Georgia's utility companies.
You have to know that a half-dozen lawmakers are drooling over the last-minute opening. A legislator's part-time salary is about $17k. The PSC post pays $117,000, with a free car and phone. But an Athens area residency is required.
One name we've heard: Former Athens mayor Doc Eldridge, currently president of the Athens-Clarke County Chamber of Commerce.
Updated at 12:50 p.m.: Other names have since joined the mix, all Republican:
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Are you the kind of person who likes all of your decor to be cohesive, even if it is for your child? Do you enjoy purchasing art that could be in your bedroom as well as theirs? I have always been of the opinion that art for children doesn't necessarily need to be cutesy or pastel. If you agree, check out these ten examples of great art pieces that would work in any room of your home!
1. Baby Porcupine from The Animal Print Shop, $25-$1,950
2. Artic Bear Wall Decals from What is Blik, $45
3. Tomato poster from Fine Little Day, €33
4. Buffalo art print from Banquet Workshop, $60.
5. Bowl of Plums, from Land of Nod, $19.95
6. Tulip Tree from Fine Little Day, €137
7. Raccoon Portrait by Berkley Illustration, $35
8. Outdoors Canoeing Banner from Land of Nod, $99
9. Nadadora Big Print by Blanca Gómez, $60
10. "Seige On the City of Moles" Print by Carson Ellis, $50
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I have a few prints from Fine Little Day and now that I'm expecting, I am excited to move them into the nursery.
That Nadadora print is calling my name... I love it!
One of these things is not like the other. Love them all except Animal Print Shop. Her prices are ridiculous.
That baby porcupine poster just makes me sad...
I think that the baby porcupine is adorable! But the prices are crazy. Also I'm not a mother, and I'm not sure if kids would like it or not.
when i was growing up my parents would let me help pick out some of the art and decor they would purchase. Typically they would have a certain theme/a couple options in mind. I remember the first painting I completely picked out on my own I was probably around 10 at the time (I still own it) it was a picture of 3 birds on branches, not child like in the slightest, that I fell in love with while traveling however now that I think about it we never had anything that was cutesy or particularly child like
I have two of her prints (the 8x10 for $25 which I don't think is a crazy price....the big ones are definitely ridiculously priced), and my 3 year old seems to really like them. She calls the baby deer one 'my deer' and acknowledges its existence which, for a just-turned 3 year old, is nothing short of miraculous. I bought Banquet's red bear print for the play room but loved it so much I put it in our hallway and it's the first thing you see when you walk in our front door. Great round up!
kgirl14, totally agree - the smaller ones are really reasonable - the big ones not so much. But the small ones are great!


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This apartment is in Sioux Falls. The closest park is McEneaney Field.
Heritage Place Apartments has a Walk Score of 51 out of 100. This location is Somewhat Walkable so some errands can be accomplished on foot.
Nearby schools include John F. Kennedy Elementary - 57 Elementary School, Oscar Howe Elementary - 58 Elementary School and Christian Center Elementary School.
The closest grocery stores are Food & Health Concepts, GNLD International and Target.
Nearby coffee shops include Caribou Coffee Kiosk, Caribou Coffee and Starbucks. There are 12 restaurants within a 15 minute walk including Godfather's Pizza, Gateway Casino & Lounge and Perkins Restaurant & Bakery.
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Unveiling the Reality Deck
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Stony Brook University unveiled its latest engineering feat, a 1.5 billion pixel Reality Deck, at a demonstration held at the University's Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology (CEWIT) on November 15, 2012. The Reality Deck, a 416 screen super-high resolution virtual reality four-walled surround-view theater, is the largest resolution immersive display ever built driven by a graphic supercomputer. Its purpose and primary design principle is to enable scientists, engineers and physicians to tackle modern-age problems that require the visualization of vast amounts of data.
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Sure, there are at least four different country award shows now but arguably the biggest is the CMA Awards on Thursday at ABC and it features the delightful co-hosting couple Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley, plus performances by most of the big current Georgia stars: Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean, Zac Brown Band, Little Big Town and Lady Antebellum.
Otherwise, it's a fairly quiet week. On ABC on Friday, Tim Allen returns for the second season of "Last Man Standing," bumped to Friday, followed by Reba McEntire's return to sitcom land with "Malibu Country," with an inexplicably strange turn by Lily Tomlin as her mom.
And Bravo's most popular "Housewives" franchise out of Atlanta returns on Sunday night minus Sheree Whitfield but plus two newbies: Porsha Williams Stewart, grand-daughter of civil rights icon Hosea Williams, and model and producer Kenya Moore, who moved here from Detroit.
"Dancing With the Stars" 8 p.m. ABC — Only in this world is Sabrina Ryan considered a "star."
"How I Met Your Mother" 8 p.m. Syfy —Barney uses a dog as his wingman.
"The Voice" 8 p.m. NBC —The knockout rounds begin, paring the teams down even more.
"2 Broke Girls" 9 p.m. CBS — Max and Caroline get a credit card.
"Hawaii Five-O" 10 p.m. CBS — A grisly murder leads Five-O to discover a ritualistic killing on Halloween.
"Castle" 10:01 p.m. ABC — Castle becomes the prime suspect in a ritualistic killing and Beckett's loyalty toward him wavers.
"Revolution" 10:01 p.m. NBC — Miles leads the group to an acquaintance who can help the injured Nora.
"Dancing With the Stars" 8 p.m. ABC — Double elimination time!
"NCIS" 8 p.m. CBS— A petty officer is gunned down in a billionaire's car.
"Face Off" 9 p.m. Syfy — Local Netherworld FX artist Roy Wooley was surprisingly cut last week and missed the top three.
"NCIS: Los Angeles" 9 p.m. CBS — A CIA agent who once worked with Sam is found dead of an apparent suicide.
"Happy Endings" 9:01 p.m. ABC — Jane pulls out the stops when she takes Penny car shopping.
"New Girl" 9:30 p.m. Fox — Jess gets hired as a zombie at a haunted house.
"Private Practice" 10 p.m. ABC — Sam stars in a reality show.
"Sons of Anarchy" 10 p.m. FX — Alliances are pushed to the breaking point.
"Vegas" 10 p.m. CBS— The son of a gaming-commission member is kidnapped.
"Survivor" 8 p.m. CBS — Walton High School grad Malcolm Freberg is proving to be a strong player.
"Criminal Minds" 9 p.m. CBS — J.J. gets upset when her son doesn't want to celebrate Halloween.
"Law & Order: SVU" 9 p.m. NBC — A girl vanishes after following her big sister to a college party.
"Modern Family" 9 p.m. ABC — Mitchell and Cameron assess Alex's new male friend.
"American Horror Story" 10 p.m. FX — A group of patients attempt to escape from Briarcliff during a violent storm.
"CSI" 10 p.m. CBS — A police dog is blamed for a cop's death.
"Nashville" 10 p.m. ABC — Rayna's marriage faces a challenge when a woman from Teddy's past surfaces.
"46th Annual CMA Awards" 8 p.m. ABC — For the fifth time, Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley host.
"The Big Bang Theory" 8 p.m. NBC — Sheldon battles Stephen Hawking over Words With Friends.
"Two and a Half Men" 8:31 p.m. CBS — Walden has a dilemma involving a choice between Rose and Zoey.
"The Office" 9 p.m. NBC — Dwight guests on a local radio show.
"Project Runway: All Stars" 9 p.m. Lifetime — The clothiers revamp a disco look from the 1970s.
"Person of Interest" 9:01 p.m. CBS — Reese is tasked with protecting a reporter on the sly she doesn't start investigating him.
"Elementary" 10:01 p.m. CBS — Holmes conducts research in a hospital morgue.
"Kitchen Nightmares" 8 p.m. Fox — The work continues on La Galleria 33, a Boston Italian restaurant.
"Last Man Standing" 8 p.m. ABC (second season debut) — Mandy prepares to vote in her first presidential election.
"Undercover Boss" 8 p.m. CBS (fourth season debut) — The CEO of Modell's Sporting Goods goes behind the scenes.
"Malibu Country" 8:31 p.m. CBS (new series) — A cheated-on wife of a country star moves to California.
"CSI: NY" 9 p.m. CBS — A woman dressed in a ball gown is found dead.
"Say Yes to the Dress: Bridesmaids" 9 p.m. TLC — A mom's ideas for pink ballerina dresses for the bridesmaids doesn't go over well with her daughter.
"Shark Tank" 9 p.m. ABC — A California man with a fly trap uses the help of "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane.
"Blue Bloods" 10 p.m. CBS — Danny learns about voodoo while investigating a stabbing.
"Christmas Song" 9 tonight Hallmark — It's never too early for a new Christmas movie, eh? Two music teachers face off in a Christmas-carol competition.
"Saturday Night Live" 11:29 tonight NBC — Louis C.K. hosts.
"Black Girls Rock" 7 p.m. Sunday BET — Tracee Ellis Ross and Regina King host. Alicia Keys and Dionne Warwick are among the winners.
"Once Upon a Time" 8 p.m. Sunday ABC — Emma embarks on a dangerous adventure with Captain Hook.
"Boardwalk Empire" 9 p.m. Sunday HBO — Van Alden makes good on a debt.
"Dexter" 9 p.m. Sunday Showtime — Debra befriends a local crime writer.
"The Real Housewives of Atlanta" 9 p.m. Sunday Bravo (fifth season debut) — Two new housewives arrive: model and producer Kenya Moore and the grand-daughter of a civil rights icon Porsha Williams Stewart.
"Revenge" 9 p.m. Sunday ABC — Victoria and Conrad test the strength of their complicated bond.
"The Good Wife" 9:30 p.m. Sunday CBS — A surprising new obstacle appears in Peter's path to become governor.
"The Walking Dead" 9 p.m. Sunday AMC — The group gets separated.
"Homeland" 10 p.m. Sunday Showtime — Dana's visit to the hospital proves shocking.
"The Mentalist" 10:30 p.m. Sunday CBS — Jane continues his search for a missing Lorelei.
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October 29th, 2012
7:12 am
" "NCIS: Los Angeles" 9 p.m. CBS — A CIA agent who once worked with Sam is found dead of an apparent suicide."
Great example of why I don't watch either of the NCIS shows. Far too many times, the plot involves a crime that NCIS would have no jurisdiction over.
Looks like there's a lot of ritualistic killing going on on Monday nights! (Castle AND Hawaii Five-O)
Glad to see Tim Allen's show come back. What took so long, though?
October 29th, 2012
7:13 am
Oh, …and great shot of Carrie Underwood!
October 29th, 2012
8:27 am
So Atlanta is more popular than New Jersey? I find that hard to believe. I just saw the clip everyone was talking about–Porsha Stewart showcasing her $200,000 birthday gift from her hubby. Just wow at the ignorance. If that is any indication, this Atlanta season will be a continuation of the buffoonery from previous seasons. Great.
October 29th, 2012
8:55 am
Highlander: Apparently ABC has no confidence in Last Man Standing, because they waited to debut it and stuck it on Friday nights. I'm a big fan of the show as well, and I hoped it would have a nice run, but its pretty obvious that ABC doesn't think it will last, thus the move to the time slot of death that is Friday night. Hopefully they get a full season and ABC accurately estimates the number of DVRs that record it, because its a really good show. Maybe TNT or TBS will pick it up after ABC cancels it.
October 29th, 2012
9:44 am
Metro Coach, they moved it to Shark Tank's slot and pushed Shark Tank to 9 p.m. Shark Tank has a very large following, so I am guessing they are hoping it will pick up viewers who normally tune in for the Tank.
October 29th, 2012
10:03 am
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October 29th, 2012
10:33 am
There are (4) Country-themed awards shows, led by the CMA Awards, which is regarded as the highest honor in the format. The others are the Academy of Country Music Awards (airs in April on CBS), the CMT Music Awards (in June on CMT) and the inane upstart American Country Awards (airs in December on FOX).
October 29th, 2012
12:02 pm
Carrie's legs are crossed the wrong way, she looks crazy sitting like that..
October 29th, 2012
12:50 pm
October 29th, 2012
8:27 am
You sound a little green with envy. What's in your wallet?
October 29th, 2012
1:08 pm
…there is no right or wrong way for a woman to cross her legs – she is doing it that way so that perverts like you (and the guy with the camera) cannot see up her dress…D'OH…
October 29th, 2012
1:10 pm
Heeeeees BBAAACCCKKKK…..
Answer – Rodney and the RHOA's
Question – Name 8 Ho's that make part of a living off this show
October 29th, 2012
2:55 pm
I don't know what it is about the CMAs but people love to watch. Had no idea it was getting over 16 million views – especially surprising since there's 3 other country music award shows each year. Just read an interested link as to how it affects country music…I never realized.
October 29th, 2012
4:46 pm
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Menethil Harbour?!?! No Spirit Healer?!?! Long walk indeed!!
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TUESDAY, Oct. 12 (HealthDay News) -- The so-called racial gap in
breast cancer care has long been known by researchers, with black
and Hispanic women less likely to get recommended breast cancer
treatments than white patients.
"Less well known is what the issue is -- is it race itself or something else contributing?" said Dr. Rachel Freedman, a medical oncologist at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, and an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Her team's new study suggests that financial factors such as
economic and social class or access to insurance alone can't
explain the "gap": Even after accounting for those differences,
racial disparities in breast cancer care still showed up.
The study, published online Oct. 11 in the journal
Cancer, "was unique because it included adult women of all ages, and included [those with] insurance," Freedman said.
Freedman evaluated information on more than 662,000 white, black
and Hispanic women diagnosed with invasive breast cancer from 1998
to 2005. She used data from the U.S. National Cancer Data Base, a
registry that collects information on patients' treatments,
outcomes, insurance and socioeconomic status.
In the database, 86 percent of the women were white, 10 percent
black, and 4 percent Hispanic.
When they evaluated whether women got the correct treatments and
testing, the team found no differences by race/ethnicity for
hormone receptor testing (evaluating whether a cancer is
estrogen-receptor positive or negative, which could help guide
But they did find differences in other interventions. For
example, black women had lower odds of getting recommended
treatments -- interventions such as mastectomy or breast-conserving
therapy, chemotherapy and hormone therapy (such as aromatase
inhibitor drugs to reduce recurrence risk), Freedman said. And
Hispanic women were less likely than white women to get hormonal
Freedman found black women 9 percent less likely than white
women to get mastectomy, breast-conserving surgery or other
treatments, 10 percent less likely to get hormonal therapy and 13
percent less likely to get chemotherapy.
Importantly, these disparities persisted even after the
researchers accounted for insurance coverage and socioeconomic
status. "In this study, even with those with the same insurance,
there were race gaps," Freedman said.
"Further investigation is needed," she said, "to figure out which [other] factors are meaningful."
Freedman said the study does have limitations, including her
finding of relatively modest absolute differences in the care
different types of patients received. Even so, because breast
cancer is so often diagnosed, these small discrepancies would end
up affecting large numbers of women, she said.
While the database was large, the information was not always
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than 46,000 women were excluded from the chemotherapy analysis,
because data was missing.
One expert agreed that a gap in care linked to race does seem to
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How many "bad" teachers does it take to negate a good teacher.
When I was in High school I had an English teacher who, during my junior year, convinced 7 of her students to drop out. She explained to them that since they were not going to college "they were wasting their time, and hers".
So how many of these teachers does it take to completely ruin a teachers credibility in the eyes of a student?
The good teachers gave me hope but the bad teachers made me hate the time I spent with them. What can we do to make sure children and teenagers are enthusiastic in the classroom?
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Jun 18 2012: After reading through everyone's thoughts I see that the majority agrees with the idea that A) it only takes one bad teacher to ruin an educational experience B) These teachers should be fired or relocated.
What is the initial filter for prospective teachers? Could bad teachers be prevented from entering the position in the first place?
Jun 18 2012: It makes sense to implement a teacher satisfaction survey for students in High School, akin to those given in universities. Of course, there is the counter-argument that students will give bad marks to teachers who are "strict" and are in fact the best teachers, but the benefits of having 'teacher-student relationship' consciousness could outway the costs.
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The Grand Prize is free books for a semester, plus an opportunity to win a free semester's tuition at the winner's respective University.
The "Dunkin' Donuts Showdown" will begin with pre-qualifiers on-campus at the Louis Brown Athletic Center on Tuesday, December 3, 2002. All RU students are encouraged to stop by between 7:00pm and 9:00pm to qualify. Top performers will compete during select home RU basketball games for a chance to go to the BIG EAST Men's Basketball Championship.
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