From wired.com: MEGAN CALLAHAN-BECKEL HAS been working with gray wolves since she was 4 years old. Now the animal care coordinator at the Wildlife Science Center in Minnesota—where her mother, Peggy Callahan, is the executive director—Callahan-Beckel grew up in a home inhabited by not only dogs but also wolf puppies, who must be intensively hand-reared for […]
From Reuters: (Reuters) – The state of Utah has asked a federal court in Oakland for permission to join in a lawsuit in order to oppose conservation groups that are challenging the removal of gray wolves from the list of endangered and threatened species in the lower 48 states. In a Monday filing, Utah said it […]
From The Craig Press in Colorado: Monday, a group from the Keystone Policy Center and the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission visited Craig to discuss plans for wolf reintroduction. The reintroduction, approved by Colorado voters last November, could happen in the area within the next couple of years. Residents of the area were invited to […]
From the Associated Press: JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced plans Monday to review whether a southeast Alaska wolf population merits Endangered Species Act protections. The plans are outlined in a document set to be published in the Federal Register on Tuesday. The document states that a petition from conservation […]
From MLive.com: LANSING, MI — Attorneys general in Michigan and Oregon have filed a joint amicus brief in litigation against the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS), which alleges the federal government improperly removed gray wolf endangered species protection. In a July 23 filing in U.S. District Court in Northern California, the two attorneys general argue that […]
From The Guardian in the UK: The woods were full of the sounds of snowmobiles and baying hounds. A group of perhaps a dozen hunters had gathered to give chase to big game along a frozen creek in north-eastern Wisconsin. Hound hunting, chiefly for black bear and coyote, is a popular pastime in this part […]
From the Colorado Springs Gazette: When Colorado voters approved the reintroduction of gray wolves in 2020, livestock owners were promised fair compensation for damages and deaths to their animals caused by wolves. But if Colorado mirrors the experiences of livestock owners in states like Idaho and Washington, ranchers around the state fear that promise may […]
From NativeNewsOnline.net: WASHINGTON — “It is abundantly clear that since protections were removed, states have accelerated policies which threaten decades of successful wolf recovery efforts across the country. Please join us in urging Secretary Haaland to revisit the decision to delist Gray Wolves,” closes a letter to fellow lawmakers from Members of Congress Donald Beyer, […]
From the Mackinac Center for Public Policy: Few issues can provoke as intense or immediate passion as removing protections for an animal under the Endangered Species Act — also known as delisting — or the conservation of charismatic megafauna — large, easily recognizable plant or animal species. The decision to delist Michigan’s gray wolf population, […]
From wxpr.org in Wisconsin: The Department of Natural Resources’ Wolf Management Plan Committee addressed the condition of Wisconsin’s wolf population Thursday. During the meeting, DNR Large Carnivore Specialist Randy Johnson showed a map showing wolves well established in northern Wisconsin. Click here for the full story.
