From AL.com: A Vestavia Hills resident’s Reddit post showing a video of a mysterious canine creature roaming free set online tongues wagging about whether it was a wolf, a wolfdog, a coyote or something else. Click here for the full story.
From Haaretz: Identifying the species or breeds of long-dead canines before the era of fashionable disfigurement in dogs can be difficult. Now a new technique finds some answers in the Saqqara necropolis of Egypt. Click here for the full story.
From The News-Enterprise: A cool wind gives the branches a consistent rustle, early sunlight filters through the overgrowth and four 1-year-olds come out to play. Trace, Piney, Ginger and Sugar sniff and creep, chase off a large crow intent on invading their enclosure, race to the other side, hide behind a hill and cautiously peer […]
From Al Jazeera English: Farmers in Germany are calling for stricter measures against wolves following an increase in attacks on their livestock. Wolves, protected under European Union law, have made a comeback in Western Europe after being extinct for more than a century. Click here for the video.
From 9News.com: WIGGINS, Colo. — Words are kind of Rachel Gabel’s thing. She has been a writer since she was a kid. Years later, she is writing for kids–she’s penned four children’s books. “I think I’ve always written,” Gabel said, as she read one of her books, “The Wooly Way,” to a group of fourth […]
From Fox 21 News: (COLORADO SPRINGS) — On Wednesday, May 3, the Parks and Wildlife Commission voted on the final approval for the Colorado Wolf Restoration and Management Plan meaning wolves will be reintroduced in the Western Slope by the end of this year. “A really big deal for us, a milestone, kind of a […]
From The Fence Post: In 2020, Colorado voters narrowly approved the reintroduction of gray wolves, which will happen later this year. New research from Colorado State University’s Regional Economic Development Institute estimates that the benefits to those who voted “yes” will be about $115 million per year, more than 50 times the estimated government spending for ranchers […]
From The Aspen Times: The Highway 82 corridor from Glenwood Springs to Aspen and the I-70 corridor between Glenwood Springs and Vail are likely to be the first areas where gray wolves are re-introduced to the state. Click here for the full story.
From The Fence Post: The Colorado Wolf Restoration and Management Plan was unanimously approved by the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission on May 3. The final approval inches CPW biologists closer to reintroducing wolves by the end of the year. However, the states named in the plan that are potential sources of donor wolves may […]
From DH News: A bill sponsored by U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert would usurp the authority of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and delist the gray wolf as an endangered species. H.R. 764, known as the “Trust the Science Act,” would reinstate a Trump-era rule that removed the gray wolf from the endangered species list. […]
