{"id":4961,"date":"2011-10-18T06:45:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T10:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4961"},"modified":"2011-10-24T08:57:43","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T12:57:43","slug":"morning-read-are-wolves-returning-to-the-adirondacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/10\/18\/morning-read-are-wolves-returning-to-the-adirondacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Are wolves returning to the Adirondacks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We know that wild cougars, or mountain lions, have been drifting through the Adirondacks the last few years, with some biologists convinced that the predators could re-establish themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Now there&#8217;s speculation that wolves, too, could once again take their place in the Park&#8217;s food chain.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/local\/article\/A-century-later-the-wild-wolf-returns-2222681.php\">This from the Albany Times-Union.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A wolf shot by a hunter a decade ago in the Adirondacks near Great  Sacandaga Lake was the first proven wild wolf in New York in more than a  century, according to a new study Monday from the New York State Museum.<\/p>\n<p>Killed  in 2001 in the town of Day &#8212; about 10 miles west of the village of  Corinth, Saratoga County &#8212; the 99-pound male gray wolf could portend  the predator&#8217;s potential return from Canada and the Great Lakes, where  its populations are\u00a0growing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So what do you think?\u00a0 Do you welcome the return of wolves and cougars?\u00a0 Are you hopeful that they can co-exist with human communities?\u00a0 Comments welcome below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know that wild cougars, or mountain lions, have been drifting through the Adirondacks the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[22,884],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4962,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4961\/revisions\/4962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}