Month: April 2010
WCC Receives $300K Grant for New Education Center from NY State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation!
Plans for the Wolf Conservation Center’s move to the northeast corner adjacent to the 383-acre Leon Levy Preserve have just received a major boost and vote of approval from Parks…
Read MoreHappy Birthday, Lukas!
Today Lukas turns 12 years old! When is your special day? If you were born in April or May, you share your birthday with a wolf in North America! Have…
Read MoreThe WCC Goes to the Birds!
Big Mama striking a poseThe Wolf Conservation Center celebrated Earth Day a few days late with an exciting bird of prey experience presented by Master Falconer Lorrie Schumacher of TALONS!…
Read MoreMontana, Idaho and Wyoming Wolf Policies Foreshadow Extinction
Check out an eye-opening opinion piece by Michael J. Robinson of Center for Biological Diversity. The article titled “Montana, Idaho and Wyoming Wolf Policies Foreshadow Extinction” reveals the inadequacies of…
Read MoreHappy B’Earth Day!
Today marks the 40th anniversary of Earth Day and the 2nd birthday of the first litter of Mexican gray wolves born at the Wolf Conservation Center. They’ll be celebrating with…
Read MoreMale-ing It In
A few people have pointed out that in our recent den-digging video red wolf M1483 seems to be doing a lot less than his share of the work. In his…
Read MoreCan You Dig It?
Red wolves F1397 and M1483 continue to give promising indications that pups are on the way. Yesterday, F1397 worked on a den (a good sign that a wolf is expecting…
Read MoreA Virtual Trip to the WCC!
North Hampton School’s first graders took a trip to the Wolf Conservation Center this morning without setting foot outside their own classroom in New Hampshire! Using two-way videoconferencing technology, we…
Read MoreRed Wolf Went A-Courtin’?
We’ve already posted video featuring behavior suggesting that red wolves F1397 and M1483 may have bred, but here’s some earlier footage indicating that the course of true love never quite…
Read MoreApril Fools Day at the WCC
We can’t resist a good gag here at the WCC and this year we pulled one over on guests to our facility and two different schools in Enfield, CT! Atka…
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