NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE

                  MARCH   2010

 

Wolf Wars

Packs are back. Westerners are glad, scared, howling mad.

Peru’s Puzzling Lines

Why did the nasca etch giant birds and whales in the sand?

Killer Plants

They lure bugs into death traps, then gorge on their flesh.

Changing Tribes

Books and guns edge out old ways in Ethiopia’s Omo Valley.

Shanghai Reborn

The megacity tries to juggle a storied past and future glory.

         
The lead article is about wolves and the problems we have with them - "Wolf Wars." The article points out that they are smart and curious, loyal and cooperative, and dangerous. (A school-teacher was recently killed by wolves in Alaska.) The author lives in a cabin near Glacier National Park, and is frequented by wolves. In fact, he has a den nearby, under a tree and extending back for 18 feet. Trapped, shot, and poisoned, they were almost gone from the lower 48 by the 1930s. Then in the mid-1980s, a pair came down from Canada, and in 1995 and 1996, the Fish and Wildlife Service brought more into Yellowstone from Canada.

All good news for the wolves, not so good for farmers