Persuasive Speech- Wolves

[Melanie Hampton]

I have to do a 7-9 minuter Persuasive Speech for my college Speech class.. I was hoping to do it on why wolves should be listed as a biggame animal and have a hunting season on them.. But I am really bad at finding the really good sites with info.. I'm a skimmer apparently...

I need statistics if I am going to make this work.. Anyone know of any good sites with depredation of wolves, or the impact for the worse they have had? Also sites where an animal has been listed as a biggame animal with a hunting season and the effect that has had?

So far when I google I am not coming up with much

Any help would be AWESOME...

I'm going to put down info on how they hunt, reproduce etc... And hopefully the effect they have on the rest of the wildlife, hounds etc.. Pictures of kills would be great too if anyone has them.. I have to make a powerpoint presentation with it...

I have info from saveelk.com and WI F&G.. I've been browsing MT F&G and ID F&G but have yet to come up with the info I'm needing...

If anybody else has links that would be great..

[Dale T]

Take a look in the General Forum-Wolf Recovery Target

[jason]

the letter from the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation to the defenders of wildlife is a good read with some good information.

http://www.rmef.org/

[leghound]

saveourelk.com has some pretty compelling stuff alot of pics and some stats and stories. whoops i didn't see you already looked at that site i guess i'm a skimmer too. good luck on your speech

[cobalt]

Idaho wildlife sevices or Dept. of Agriculture. Good luck.

[cat and bear]

Hope this helps, for 09 we lost 22 dogs to wolves, and several more injured, a lot of info here. LOL
http://dnr.wi.gov/org/land/er/mammals/w ... ed2009.htm

[Twopipe]

Here is a website that details wolf damage costs along with other information in Minnesota.

http://www.wolf.org/wolves/learn/intermed/inter_mgmt/depstats.asp

[Melanie Hampton]

Welll I have not gotten my grade back on it yet as I gave this speech today.... but all in all.. it was a smashing success.. a few people were appalled by the pictures of the wolf kills and everyone agreed they were completely uneducated about the damage wolves cause..

They are all now on the ban wagon for making sure when our wolf population increases in Oregon, it is handled correctly..

It may only be a few people, but it is a few more educated people..

Thanks all for the links.. I used them all in my research..

And thank you to those who let me use the pictures of their hounds after they had been maimed and or killed.. Those pictures really shocked the class and I believe was a big part in opening their eyes when they seen the damage first hand...

[driftwood blue]

That is very good.
is there some way to make your presentation available for others to use the same way??
facebook or something like that?
Thanks for carrying the banner!

[Melanie Hampton]

is there some way to make your presentation available for others to use the same way??

I'm not sure, only because I just used notes.. It wasn't actually written out.. I do have the outline I could put somewhere, but that doesn't give the full info.. I could at some point type it all out like a essay.. but.. that will have to wait for a break.. I don't have time with my current classes to re-write it all out... It ended up being close to 11 minutes long...