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It was described as a fascinating read about one of the first wolf hunters in Alaska, detailing his work for the state on wolf control, initially using guns and later incorporating poisons, highlighting the effectiveness of poisons in controlling wolf populations. The book covers his experiences near Kotzebue, where wolf control was implemented to support reindeer herding initiatives.
There's this book, Alaska's Wolfman. It's a fascinating read.
— Episode: Ep. 411: Boned from the Right, Boned fro...
Episode: Ep. 411: Boned from the Right, Boned from the Left
It was described as a fascinating read about one of the first wolf hunters in Alaska, detailing his work for the state on wolf control, initially using guns and later incorporating poisons, highlighting the effectiveness of poisons in controlling wolf populations. The book covers his experiences near Kotzebue, where wolf control was implemented to support reindeer herding initiatives.
There's this book, Alaska's Wolfman. It's a fascinating read.
And he goes out and he goes out to work for the state of Alaska on wolf control. Typically in areas where caribou herds have been greatly depleted.
And later in areas where they were doing economic development and they were going to... He spends a bunch of time up by Kotzebue, where as an economic development plan, they were trying to get native Alaskans set up in the reindeer herding business.
They were trying to stabilize food resources and get them set up to be reindeer herders. But they would bring in these reindeer herds and they would just get decimated by wolves.
And in Alaska's Wolfman, he goes from being just a gun hunter, like doing wolf control with guns, and then he gets into poisons. I think he's getting into poisons even in the 1950s. And just how amazingly effective.