The predator pendulum revisited: Social conflict over wolves and their management in the western United States

摘要: The reintroduction, recovery, and management of gray wolves (Canis lupus) in the western United States has long been a source controversy acrimonious public debate. I discuss 3 factors that perpetuate confusion conflict over their management: 1) role science politics wildlife management, 2) rhetoric political actions elected officials appointees, 3) justification wolf harvest specific practices employed during hunting trapping seasons. Wildlife professionals could reduce surrounding by clearly delineating policy decisions from scientific input used to inform these decisions; articulating concepts when they are agency communications; employing collaborative public-involvement processes designed conflicts (e.g., learning, alternative dispute resolution); 4) setting regulations with concerning timing seasons, methods locations take. Longitudinal studies assess how human attitudes behaviors change response changing policies would be particularly valuable for understanding potentially reducing (and other wildlife) future. Such data collected through collaborations between social scientists, who possess expertise relevant research theoretical knowledge, state Cooperative Fish Research units, experience working agencies. © 2013 Society.