Mr. Mark McNay This is Me

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1. 1. News-Miner - Alaska AP

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   Published on: 4/10/2004   Last Visited: 4/10/2004

   The sterilized wolves also don't have to hunt as much because there isn't a whole pack to feed, said biologist Mark McNay, a wolf expert at Fish and Game in Fairbanks. And that cuts down on the chances of being killed while trying to take down a moose or caribou.
   
   About half the wolves that McNay examines have some evidence of previous injuries from killing moose or caribou, such as broken ribs, cracked skulls and broken leg or foot bones.
   
   "Smaller packs kill fewer prey animals so they're not exposed to the risk of having to kill moose," McNay said. "Those risks can be substantial."
   
   The fact that the sterilized pairs have managed to maintain their traditional territories, even on a slightly smaller scale, doesn't surprise McNay.
   
   "That's what wolves do, defend territories," he said.

2. 2. www.ohscanada.com

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   Published on: 11/2/2007   Last Visited: 11/2/2007

   Mark McNay, recently retired as head of the research department at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, argued it was wolves that killed and partially consumed Carnegie.
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   McNay said the people he interviewed had not seen a bear in the area for several weeks before Carnegie's death and for months after.
   
   In photographs of the site, what Paquet identified as bear tracks were actually wolf tracks, said McNay. The tracks were on the lake's surface, which had not completely frozen over. When the wolf stepped into the ground and broke through to water, the water came up and made the track larger, leading people to believe it was bear tracks.
   
   McNay said it was also unlikely that two wolves would have eaten the same hair from the dump on the same day Carnegie was killed.
   
   As for the argument that wolves don't attack humans, McNay said that is not the case anymore because wolves are becoming habitualized and losing their fear of people.
   
   "These incidents of wolves and people, predictably, are going to increase," he said.

3. 3. Oregon Wolves

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   Published on: 11/15/2004   Last Visited: 6/12/2008

   I recently returned from a trip to Oregon where I obtained a copy of the Draft Oregon Wolf Conservation and Management Plan, a Minority Report on the Draft by a member of the Wolf Advisory Committee, and a Letter from an Alaska Fish and Game Furbearer Biologist (Mark McNay) to the US Fish and Wildlife Service regarding the proposed reclassification and delisting of the gray wolf.
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   The biologist, Mr. McNay is a knowledgeable chap regarding the wolf literature and the provisions of the Endangered Species Act.His honesty in stating that, "Maintaining high densities of wolves will require reduced harvest of prey animals by humans and some tolerance of persistent livestock/domestic animal loss" is appreciated.Additionally, his statement that (re: depredation control), after "public assurance was given so that the public understood that a persistent policy of depredation control would occur during recovery"; "the Service decided to abandon their own recommendation" is also a breath of honesty.Further he mentions the "Service did not state they would not change the non essential status" (re: depredation control possibilities) "they simply stated , in 1994, they did not foresee a need."