Tamástslikt offers wolf perspective in Minnesota

As of Thursday, May 15, 2014

PENDLETON — The Story of Wolves in North America exhibit will open Friday at Tamástslikt Cultural Institute, 47106 Wildhorse Blvd., and run through Aug. 10.

The exhibit provides a continental perspective on wolves today. It examines every region where wolves thrive or struggle to survive the cultural and economic pressures that continue to shape their existence. Organized by region, each wolf is presented in its human and natural history context and provides answers to these questions:

• Wolves in the Far North — can they be hunted and their populations sustained?
• Wolves in the Rocky Mountains — will land development crowd them out?
• Wolves in Midwest — can people change how they live to make living with wolves easier?
• Wolves in the Northeast — will wolves return to their old haunts?
• Wolves in the Southeast — do coyotes threaten the survival of the red wolf?
• Wolves in the Southwest — when wolves prey on livestock, who gets hurt, the rancher, the wolf or both?
• Coyotes in North America — will coyotes win out over wolves in the competition for food and space?

The Bell Museum of Natural History at the University of Minnesota, in cooperation with the International Wolf Center in Ely, Minn., created the exhibition. It is presented through a partnership with Catholic Health Initiatives St. Anthony Hospital

For more information, call 541-966-9748.

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