From FronterasDesk.org: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will publish revisions Thursday to its five-year-old Mexican Wolf Recovery Plan that it says will improve protections for the endangered species. The new draft is the result of a court order to address humans killing wolves. Earlier this year, two wolves were shot, one just outside Flagstaff that died and another in […]
From RMOToday.com: BANFF – The Bow Valley’s montane habitat is considered critically important in spring, providing wildlife with much needed food and a place to raise their young when much of Banff National Park is still covered in snow. At this time, many wildlife species including wolves during the critical denning period, require secure habitat […]
From NPR.org: This winter saw the most wolves from Yellowstone National Park killed in about a century. That’s because states neighboring the park changed hunting rules in an effort to reduce the animals’ numbers. At the same time, wolf biologists inside the park are finding out what losing the animals means. “This was the winter […]
From the Sublette Examiner in Pinedale, Wyoming: BOULDER – The Sublette County Predator Board hosted a workshop at the Boulder Community Center on March 30 for ranchers whose cattle and sheep are preyed upon by gray wolves, mountain lions and grizzly and black bears. The audience heard from a panel of county, state and federal […]
From the Finger Lake Times: DENVER — Colorado’s U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert and 23 other Republican members of Congress wrote federal officials this month asking that they remove the gray wolf from the federal endangered species list. A northern California judge’s February ruling placed the gray wolves on the federal endangered species list once more […]
From Wisconsin Public Radio: Wisconsin’s Conservation Congress will hold its annual spring hearings online next week to collect input from residents on dozens of natural resource issues, including whether the state should ban hunting wolves with dogs and end wildlife killing contests. The citizen advisory group for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and Natural Resources Board […]
From original.newsbreak.com: Killing a wolf for reasons apart from self-defense is illegal in Oregon, and gray wolves are a protected species under state law. There were at least 173 gray wolves in the state at the last official count at the end of 2020. Five wolves from the same pack were poisoned to death in Union […]
From the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife: OLYMPIA – Washington’s wolf population continued to grow in 2021 for the 13th consecutive year. The 2021 annual wolf report was released today by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) and shows a 16% increase in wolf population growth from the previous count in 2020. “Washington’s […]
From Minnesota Public Radio: Scientists studying wolves in and around Voyageurs National Park have released what they believe is a first-ever video showing an entire day in the life of a wild wolf, shot from the wolf’s perspective. The 25-minute video from the Voyageurs Wolf Project is filmed using a remote camera attached to a GPS […]
From Colorado State University: In November 2020, Colorado voters approved Proposition 114, which mandated that Colorado Parks and Wildlife develop a plan to start reintroducing gray wolves (Canis Lupus) to the western part of the state by 2023. The initiative passed narrowly with 50.9 percent of the Colorado public voting in favor. Given the close […]
