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Hallelujah! Our Facebook page was hacked last Friday and we lost complete control of the account. But with some assistance from some absolutely wonderful people we were able to gain back control of our page just a little bit ago! We are so relieved by this!

All the videos posted over the past few days were not ours (except the one of the female saving the 7 pups from the den). Even in that one, though, the hacker(s) ripped the footage off our page, and then re-uploaded the footage as a new video. We will delete all these videos shortly!

All we have to say, though, is that we are glad that whoever hacked our account also found wolves pretty interesting too 😉

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"At the trapper's meeting at Wabowden, Manitoba in the spring of 1949, one trapper supported his statement of wolf predation [on beaver] by producing a bushel sack of wolf feces in which considerable beaver hair was observable"-Nash 1951

We might know now that beavers are important prey for wolves in many areas including the Greater Voyageurs Ecosystem but this was not always that case. This wonderful quote from a 1951 Master's thesis captures this perfectly.

One can only pi...cture how this went down: a trapper stands up at the local trapper's meeting claiming that wolves are eating the beavers. He is met with chuckles and laughs, and no one believes him. The trapper leaves the meeting irritated and determines he will prove it to his fellow trappers.

Over the coming months, the trapper goes about grabbing every beaver-filled wolf scat he can find when in the bush and throws it in a sack. After enough time, he collects enough scat to fill the bushel sack. He proudly comes back to the trapper's meeting, bag in hand, and proves that he was in fact right....wolves do prey on beavers! No one is laughing at him anymore!

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