Speak for WolvesCalifornia Wolves: When, Where, How, Why, and What’s Next
After a nearly 100-year absence, California has wolves. When did they start arriving, where are they currently ranging, how did they get their state protected status, what’s next for wolves here based on the state wolf plan and any existing threats to their ongoing recovery.
Amaroq Weiss is the Senior Wolf Advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity.
A biologist and former attorney, Amaroq has worked in wolf recovery and conservation advocacy for the northern Rockies, Alaska, the Southwest, Pacific West and at the federal level, for the past 26 years. At present her work focuses chiefly on wolf issues in West Coast states, the Northeastern U.S., and at the federal level.
Amaroq was an appointed representative in the two separate processes in Oregon and California to draft those states’ wolf conservation and management plans, and successfully argued the case to get wolves listed under California’s state endangered species act.
The organization for which she works — the Center for Biological Diversity — is a national, nonprofit conservation organization with more than 1.7 million members and supporters, that works to protect endangered species and wild places.
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