L. David Mech 1993 <p>It is common for land managers and administrators involved in wolf (<i>Canis lupus</i>) management to assume that human development within wolf habitat is a hindrance to wolf recovery. Thus, researchers are often asked questions like We are planning to build a new dock and parking area on Wolf Lake; how will that affect wolf recovery? This kind of question pervades national forest and national park plans and has been pondered with regularity by both federal and state resource managers.</p><p>Meanwhile, wolves have been extending their ranges into regions of much greater human development. The apparent contradiction has created both confusion and misdirected effort.</p> application/pdf en U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Updating our thinking on the role of human activity in wolf recovery reports