From the Flathead Beacon in Kalispell, Montana: Faced with a legislative directive to drive down the state’s wolf population, including through the use of methods like snaring, baiting and night hunting, as well as an expansion of trapping seasons that could overlap with grizzly bear and Canada lynx activity, the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission […]
From the Post Independent in Colorado: Colorado voters made it clear they want wolves reintroduced to the state by 2023, but what will be the results of that initiative? It depends on who you ask, given the variety of opinions and answers at a recent wolf restoration and management plan open house in Glenwood Springs […]
From the Daily Record: Cops received nearly 300 reports from terrified Scots of a ‘wolf’ roaming near a major road- only to discover it was someone’s pet white fox. More than 270 locals ‘cried wolf’ and reported the animal near the A89 in West Lothian, despite wild wolves becoming extinct in the Scottish lowlands more than 400 […]
From The Durango Herald: Southwest Colorado residents will have a chance to comment on the state’s gray wolf reintroduction and management plan in a public forum Monday at Fort Lewis College. The in-person listening session is put on by Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the Keystone Policy Center, a Colorado-based public engagement nonprofit. It is […]
From UPI.com: If you feel like your dog understands you, you’re right. Dogs have the innate ability to grasp what humans are thinking, a skill developed in their 14,000 years of hanging out with people, researchers say. In contrast, wolf puppies do not have that ability. Click here for the full story.
From The Colorado Sun: KALISPELL, Montana — The gray wolf population is robust enough in Montana that officials are preparing to extend hunting season on the state’s most controversial animals and allow snare traps that grab them by the neck. And in next-door Idaho, where hunting and trapping season is pretty much year-round, hunters can use […]
From the Detroit Free Press: After a somewhat rough start, the wolves who survived being transplanted to Isle Royale in Lake Superior seem to have taken a liking to their new surroundings, producing multiple litters of pups. Nineteen wolves were transplanted on the island national park between 2018 and 2019 to bolster its nearly vanished wolf population and counterbalance the […]
From the Anchorage Daily News: Wolves are controversial. Some folks think they are big, smart, happy dogs. Others believe all wolves should be shot on sight. There are those who would pay thousands of dollars just to see a wolf in the wild. And those who would pay thousands to eliminate the wolf from the […]
From Gizmodo.com: Gray wolves (Canis lupus) have been persecuted in the U.S. since the arrival of Europeans. By the 20th century, they had been driven to near-extinction. Narrowly pulled back from the brink by endangered species protections and reintroductions in Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho in the 1990s, they are one of North America’s greatest conservation […]
From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: As many as one-third of Wisconsin’s gray wolves likely died at the hands of humans in the months after the federal government announced it was ending legal protections, according to a study released Monday. Poaching and a February hunt that far exceeded kill quotas were largely responsible for the drop-off, University of Wisconsin scientists said, […]
