In Which NWLobos Announces a New Floating Feature

NWLobos is Excited and Pleased to Announce a New Rotating Feature

NWLobos, recognizing that much of what we do here is not strictly related to the Pacific Northwest, hereby announces a new rotating feature that seeks to illuminate wolf, or carnivore-related issues across the globe.  

Said "International" features will include wolf and canid-related news from around the world, but won't necessarily restrict themselves to wolves and canids, it being the case that said matters almost never stand alone and instead are typically entwined with much larger themes involving trophic cascades, land-use, rewilding and the protection of existing power structures.  

NWLobos was originally founded, as it's name suggests, as a forum for news and opinions regarding wolves in the Pacific Northwest.  This seemed like a good idea at the time, but it soon became obvious that one could not touch the subject without also touching many other fraught but related issues that had to be covered were the issue of wolves in the Pacific Northwest to have anything like context.  

It soon became apparent that in some ways wolves in the Pacific Northwest were, if not an allegory, than at least a sort of symbol that could easily be used as an avenue towards greater understanding of the larger themes that face all of humanity as we struggle to find an equilibrium that balances environmental concerns with the cold and stark reality of modernity.  

In other words, NWLobos quickly realized that it made no sense to speak of wolves in isolation, as if they were a discrete issue somehow unrelated to the larger currents of the world.  

The above understanding of issues regarding wolves as being largely a stand-in for issues regarding humanity's interaction with nature is, therefore, the basis upon which we launch the "International" feature.