Back in January, I brought you the story of a young man named Kenton Carnegie working through his college on a project near Points Landing, Saskatchewan, Canada. It is believed through evidence at the scene that Carnegia was attacked and killed by wolves.
It has been four months now and still the family is waiting for the results from the Canadian government’s official coroner. It is those results that make the cause of death official and the family is waiting in hopes that the results will help to force some changes to be made in the area where Carnegie was killed.
One of the issues is a local dump site that is unregulated and locals there say the wolves find the dump an easy feeding ground which brings humans and wolves into contact with each other.
One would think four months is ample time to get results from an autopsy. If it is proven true that Carnegie’s death was the result of wolf attacks, it would be the first time in North America that someones was killed by wolves in a natural habitat situation.
Tom Remington
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Posted on Tuesday, March 7th, 2006
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An Ontario, Canada man, 22-year-old Kenton Joel Carnegie, a third-year geological engineering student at the University of Waterloo, had been working at Points North Landing as part of his fall term co-op program. Officials believe he was attacked and killed by two gray wolves near Wollaston Lake, Saskatchewan. The two wolves were shot and killed and tests are being done to determine if these two wolves killed Carnegie.
This will add fuel to the debate about the gray wolves re-introduction back into the United States. Although officials state that wolves killing humans is extremely rare, no one disputes the fact that human - wolf encounters are on the rise in the U.S. and livestock and pets are being killed more and more by the wolves.
Wisconsin is one state where the management goals of gray wolves has been exceeded and there’s not much that state officials can do because the wolf is protected federally by the endangered species act.
This article sheds more light on what is going on in Wisconsin concerning the gray wolves and also talks about the death of Carnegie.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Previous blogs on the subject of wolves here and here.
Tom Remington
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Posted on Thursday, January 5th, 2006
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