Live Timber Wolf Will Highlight Flanders Program

WOODBURY — On Saturday, October 15, at 10:30 am, a live timber wolf will be brought to Flanders Nature Center & Land Trust’s Sugar House as part of an educational program on the subject of wolves.

The presentation, called “Wolf Talk,” will be given by Michael LeBlanc who, along with his wife Amy, has been educating people about wolves since 1978 through lectures at schools, museums and summer camps.

“They’re not the vicious killing machines we’ve all been led to believe,” says Mr LeBlanc. “They’re actually deathly afraid of people.”

Mr LeBlanc feels that everything people have learned about wolves – from fairy tales, myth and folklore – is wrong and gives the animal a “bum rap.” He hopes to spell out the truths and fallacies of the lives of timber wolves by discussing their role in the ecosystem, wolf behavior both in captivity and in the wild, their eating habits, their pack structure and how humans have interacted with them through time.

This program is especially for children, with hands-on activities for the family.

Licensed by the federal Department of Agriculture to transport wolves, the LeBlancs will bring along one of the timber wolves they are raising in a half-acre compound on their Massachusetts property.

Cost for the program is $5 per person.

For more information about the program and to register, which is required, contact Flanders at 203-263-3711.