To the Editor,

In response to recent letters on wolf sighting in Haliburton. I wonder about the real motives of the author of the letters crying wolf!

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Here is an incoming email from my friend Alan Drummond. Make sure you tune in!

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Whenever I think of old-growth forests, I envision the redwoods of Northern California or the Amazon region of South America - not the continent of Europe where forest destruction and intensive management have been widespread for millennia. However, in parts of Europe, areas of virgin forest still exist - mostly in Russia, but also in other countries, as well.

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Now that coyote populations are climbing and debate over lifting that killing ban is heating up in the media, there are biologists who dismiss the concerns of livestock farmers and suburban city dwellers, arguing that coyote populations are driven by "natural cycles," citing a noted increase in the fatal mange in coyotes as one cause for possible declines to be expected.

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According to Environment Canada, Ontario experienced a warmer than usual February with even northern locations experiencing the warmer trend. In two cases, the variation from normal was more than five degrees Celsius with both Petawawa and Moosonee recording their warmest temperatures since the late 1990s.

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