Wolf Depredation Repeal Paper

WOLF SUSTAINABILITY PAPER

DIRECTIONS: Write a persuasive paper that convinces policymakers to repeal the Idaho Wolf Depredation Law.

CRITERIA FOR THE PERSUASIVE PAPER

______ address Wolf Depredation Act

______ address non lethal livestock protection

______ address livestock deprivation compensation

________You must address the ranchers', and elk / deer hunters' perspectives.

________You must develop a summary of the counterargument, concede, and converse with your argument AT LEAST TWICE in your narration.

________You must have three facts from the Wolf Management Research web site or others.

_______ You must have three passages from the environmental writers we have read AND THREE CONCEPTS DEFINED:

-NEVER CRY WOLF must be quoted twice.

OTHER WRITERS TO QUOTE AND RESPOND TO IN NARRATION:

Preservationists:

Muir

McPhee (Brower)

Utilitarians:

Pinchot

McPhee (Dominy)

KEY CONCEPTS TO REFERENCE :

1 Anthropocentrism (Emerson, Thoreau, Snyder, Dominy, Pinchot…)

2 Ecocentrism (Thoreau, Berry, Brower…)

3 Human time v Natural time (Thoreau, Berry, Abbey…)

4 Lessons of the Wilderness Experience (The Etiquette of Freedom): Berry and Thoreau and Snyder

5 Anthropomorphism ( Abbey…)

6 Pantheism (Emerson, Thoreau, Muir…)

7 Deified Transcendence (Emerson, Muir…)

8 Organic Transcendence (Thoreau, Berry…)

9 Opportunity Cost (Thoreau): “amount of life I must give up in the choosing of any endeavor”

10 Industrial Tourism (Abbey and Brower…)

11 Idea of Wilderness (Stegner)

12 Societal Self v Natural Self (Emerson, Thoreau, Abbey, Berry…)

13 “Indemnity (reparation) in the inviolable order for the world” (if left intact) (Emerson, Thoreau,…)

14 Spiritual and Ecological Interconnectivity in nature (Emerson, Thoreau, Berry, Abbey, Snyder)

15 No nature (Thoreau, Abbey, Snyder)

16 Need to see our limits transgressed (Thoreau, Abbey, Berry…)

17 Intrinsic Value of Wilderness (Brower, Abbey, Snyder…)

18 Bioregionalism (Snyder, Berry...)

19 10 Principles of the Code of Etiquette of Freedom that stems from the wilderness experience (Snyder)

21 Six different perspectives of wolves: mythological, anthropocentric, anthropomorphic, scientific, indigenous,ecocentric (Mowat)

22 Wilderness Idea and American Character (Stegner)

23 Thinking Like a Mountain or Ecocentrism (Leopold)

24 Wolves are Territorial, not nomadic (Mowat 80-82)

25 Wolves parent by pack; not promiscuous (Mowat 146)

26 Carrying Capacity of deer achieved by wolves (Mowat 180-2)

27 Internal birth control mechanisms in wolves and varies litter sizes based on prey abundance (Mowat)

28 Wolf predation: caches, returned to kills during denning season (Mowat)

29 Wolf diet: 48% rodents (Mowat 227)

30 Native Self v Alien Self (Mowat 246)

31 Trophic Cascade (Blakeslee American Wolf)

Outline Guide for Persuasive Editorial

I. Title

A. Introduction

1. Opener: engage the reader with a quote, personal experience, or commands / directives

2. Bridge: connects opener to the topic

3. Embedded thesis and plan: address the solution to the issue: indicate cases and threads of argument

B. First Body Paragraph

1. Summarize the counter argument:

a. Quotation to develop the counterargument

2. Concede: agree with one or several points in the counterargument / explain why you concede this point as irrefutable:

3. Converse: lead with the most persuasive argument / point in your favor

a. Quotation to develop your argument

1) Context

2) Condense

3) Connect (concept defined?)

C. 2nd Body Paragraph

1. Summarize the counter argument:

a. Quotation to develop the counterargument

2. Concede: agree with one or several points in the counterargument / explain why you concede this point as irrefutable:

3. Converse: lead with the most persuasive argument / point in your favor

a. Quotation to develop your argument

1) Context

2) Condense

3) Connect (concept defined?)

D. Second Body Paragraph

1. Summarize the counter argument:

a. Quotation to develop a concept

1) Context

2) Condense

3) Connect to a concept

2. Concede: agree with one or several points in the counterargument / explain why you concede this point as irrefutable:

3. Converse: lead with the most persuasive argument / point in your favor

a. Quotation to develop your argument

1) Context

2) Condense

3) Concept defined?

4) Connect by applying concept in analysis

E. Develop your argument

1. Quotation:

a. Context

b. Condense:

c. Concept defined?

d. Connect by applying concept in analysis

F. Develop your argument

1. Quotation:

a. Context

b. Condense:

c. Concept defined?

d. Connect by applying concept in analysis

G. Develop your argument

1. Quotation:

a. Context

b. Condense:

c. Concept defined?

d. Connect by applying concept in analysis

H. Conclusion

1. React to last point and readdress why you believe in your view / your thesis:

2. List the possible solutions that would follow your argument

3. List what needs to happen in order for your solutions to be successful:

4. Ender: leave reader with a call to action: