Entries by Chad Richardson

Colville Tribe removes wolf hunting limits for members

From The SpokesmanReview in Spokane, Washington: Colville Tribal hunters may now hunt wolves year-round on tribal grounds. The rule change, posted Friday, also removed a three-wolf season limit. Wolf hunting was scheduled to end on the north half of the reservation at the end of February. The north half is comprised of tribal, state and […]

Two Banff National Park wolf packs likely decimated by trappers

From TheNarwhal.ca: In January, Craig Comstock did what he’s done many times over the years — loaded his two dogs into his vehicle and drove from his home in Calgary to the backcountry for a day hike. Comstock, 44, is an avid outdoorsman — he hikes, fishes and hunts pheasants and partridges — but none of […]

Why Winter Is A Good Time To Track Wisconsin’s Wolf Packs

From WisContext.org: As wolves returned to broad swaths of Wisconsin after decades of being extirpated from the state, a tracking program in which volunteers scout for the presence of this predator grew, too. Since 1978, when the gray wolf (Canis lupus) was identified in Douglas County, the first sighting there in about two decades, the animal’s population across the […]

Estonians rescue wild wolf from ice thinking it was a dog

From BBC.com: Kind-hearted Estonian workers rushed to rescue a dog in distress from a freezing river on Wednesday – unaware of the fact they were actually about to bundle a wild wolf into their car. The men were working on the Sindi dam on the Parnu river when they spotted the animal trapped in the […]

Why wolves have become a political football in Germany

From Yahoo.com: The German government is mulling some weighty threats these days, Brexit, US auto tariffs… and wolves.  Canis lupus lupus, aka the European grey wolf, is back from extinction and into the middle of the political debate. What to do about the rapidly expanding wolf population was on the docket at the Bundestag in […]

Isle Royale moose get tracking collars, first time in 1985

From Mlive.com: ISLE ROYALE, MI – For the first time since 1985, researchers doing the long-running winter study of wolves and moose on Michigan’s remote Isle Royale have placed tracking collars on some of the island’s moose. The work was finished last Saturday, according to a social media post from the researchers. They used small […]

Wolves in Germany Are Making a Comeback, And The Military Is Weirdly Helping

From ScienceAlert.com: Humanity has always had an uneasy relationship with wolves. They loom large in our ancient mythologies as fearsome beasts; over the millennia, that fear has led to devastation of wolf populations across Europe, including 19th century Germany. In the 1960s, numbers of wolves (Canis lupus) in Europe hit an all-time low, veering perilously […]

Female wolf settles in the Netherlands and may have a mate

From DutchNews.nl: A female wolf which has been roaming the northern part of the Veluwe national park in Gelderland can now be considered to be the first wolf to be officially settled there and off-spring may be on the way, wolf monitoring organisation Wolven in Nederland claims. A wolf is considered settled when it stays […]