Marquette, Michigan – A bear at a bird feeder is an excuse to run for the camera, yet seeing a wolf in a distant field evokes fear for our safety. Join Nancy Warren, volunteer with the Timber Wolf Alliance, on Tuesday, September 4 at 7:00 pm in the Peter White Public Library Community Room to learn how to put the fear of wolves in perspective and explore the ways we can co-exist with wolves on the landscape.
The Timber Wolf Alliance (TWA) is a program of The North Lakeland Discovery Center, Manitowish Waters, WI. TWA is committed to investigating the facts and relies on the growing body of scientific research to dispel myths and unfounded fears associated with wolves.
Wolves, a natural part of our state’s heritage and ecology, have reclaimed their presence in the northland. Nancy Warren’s passion began in 1992 when she learned that a handful of wolves lived in the U.P. Through education she strives to improve human tolerance of wolves by promoting a better understanding of wolf behavior.
As a volunteer for the TWA Speakers Bureau, Warren gives programs at schools and various organizations throughout Northern Wisconsin and the Western U.P. She was a volunteer tracker for the Wisconsin Volunteer Carnivore Program for 18 years, conducted howling surveys and has assisted with the collaring of several wolves in Wisconsin. Warren served on the DNR Wolf Roundtable to develop the guiding principles for the MI Wolf Management Plan and she serves on the Timber Wolf Alliance Advisory Board.
Nancy Warren lives with her husband and two dogs near Ewen and have welcomed and adapted to having wolves and other wild animals frequent their property.
The program in being held in conjunction with the traveling exhibit, Wolves and Wild Lands of the 21st Century, currently on display at the library. Wolves and Wild Lands is a timely new exhibition from the Bell Museum of Natural History at the University of Minnesota. The exhibit explores wolves and their closely related cousins- the red wolf and coyote- in North America, from the Arctic to the southwestern United States and the economic pressures that continue to shape their existence. Providing a compelling, continental perspective on wolves today, the display features mounted specimens with interpretative panels which are organized by region with each wolf is presented in its human and natural-history context.
There is no admission charge to the presentation or the exhibit which is on display through September. For more information call the Peter White Public Library at 226-4318 or visit www.pwpl.info.
Tuesday, September 4, 2012 at 7:00 pm
The Peter White Public Library
217 N. Front St., Marquette
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