Episode 38: What Good is a Wolf! Pimlott’s Early Myth Busting

Episode 38: What Good is  a  Wolf! Pimlott's Early  Myth Busting

This episode is the first of a series on the Algonquin Park wolf research that began with Douglas Pimlott's early work from 1958-1962. Prior to that time, Algonquin Park wolves had mostly been seen as vermin out to destroy all other Park wildlife. 

This episode's musical interlude comes from Dan Gibson's Solitudes Algonquin Suite and is called Reunion of  the Wolves.  It is  brought to your with thanks from Digital Funding LLC. This and other of Dan Gibson's Solitudes work can be found on Apple Music, Spotify or anywhere else where music streaming is found.

Here’s the list of references that have informed most of these episodes:

• Russell Rutter and Douglas Pimlott’s 1967 The World of the Wolf
• Pimlott, Shannon and Koolenosky’s 1969 Department of Lands and Forests Report on the Ecology of the Timber Wolf
• John Theberge’s 1975 Wolf and the Wilderness
• John and Mary Theberge’s 1998 Wolf Country
• John and Mary Theberge and the University of Waterloo’s 2004 The Wolves of Algonquin Park:  A 12-Year  Ecological Study   
• Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry’s 2018 Algonquin Wolf – Ontario Recovery Series
• Dan Strickland’s Wolf Howling Technical Bulletin #88
• Various articles in a  special Winter 1979 edition of the Ontario Naturalist by Lu. N Carbyn, Bruce LittleJohn’s, John Theberge &  Theodor Mosquin
• Wolf Wars: America’s campaign to eradicate the Wolf
• ‘Unprecedented killing’: The deadliest season for Yellowstone’s wolves
• Several Raven Newsletter articles including:
  • Kill the Wolves and Kill the Park - Aug 5, 1993 Vo 34, #7
  • Is Algonquin Big Enough for its Most Famous Animal?- June 26, 1997 Vol 38#2 
  • The Best Wolf is a Wild Wolf - August 14, 1997 Vol 28#9
  • A Wolfian Trilogy - Part 1: the Bite that shook our Faith July 15, 1999 Vol 40#4
  • A Wolf Trilogy Part 3: You Red it Here First July 29,1999 Vol. 40 No. 6