From Axios Seattle: Gray wolves are making a recovery in Washington, according to the state Department of Fish & Wildlife (WDFW), and a vote slated for Friday could see members of the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission downlisting wolves from an “endangered” to a “sensitive” species. Click here for the full story.
From Capital Press: The Couse wolf pack in southeast Washington has attacked two calves and one cow and probably attacked another cow, pushing the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife to consider killing one or two wolves. An adult male in the pack in Asotin County was killed July 8 while reportedly chasing livestock. The […]
From MLive: ISLE ROYALE, MI – The National Park Service has announced new food storage guidelines for Isle Royale’s visitors and overnight campers to try to solve an issue with the island’s wolves accessing human food and garbage. This activity is happening around the island’s Rock Harbor, where the visitor center is located, and in campgrounds on […]
From NL Times: The wolf that attacked a leashed dog on an estate in Leusden last Saturday has shown natural behavior, according to experts. The province of Utrecht says that there is no question of a so-called problem wolf. The province assumes that the dog was attacked by one of the parents of wolf cubs. […]
From Nature: One summer evening in 2004, around the campfire during a rock climbing trip to the Red River Gorge in Kentucky, Doug Benn, a glaciologist at the University of St Andrews, UK, shared a photo with Jason Gulley. It was a picture of a 6-metre-deep hole, shaped like an upside down ‘L’ in the […]
From Cowboy State Daily: Outrage over a Daniel resident reportedly running a wolf down with a snowmobile continues to reverberate with an anticipated bipartisan U.S. House bill aimed at banning such acts. The Snowmobiles Aren’t Weapons (SAW) Act is expected to be introduced soon by U.S. Reps. Don Davis, D-North Carolina, and Troy Nehls, R-Texas. Click […]
Fr0m Spokane Public Radio: With a controversial vote planned next week on whether to loosen protections for wolves in Washington, wildlife advocates are raising alarm that officials could be relying on flawed wolf count figures from a tribe in the northeast corner of the state. Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission members have been told by […]
From Wyoming Public Media: Animal welfare and conservation groups are suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to get gray wolves back on the Endangered Species List. This comes as the Cowboy State is thinking about changing how it manages predatory animals. Animal Wellness Action, the Center for a Humane Economy and Project Coyote are among […]
From Phys.org: Humans drove wolves to extinction in Washington state around the 1930s. Thanks to conservation efforts, by about 80 years later, wolves had returned—crossing first from the Canadian border into Washington around 2008 and later entering the state from Idaho. Since then, wolf numbers in Washington have been steadily growing, raising questions about what […]
From AP News: CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Six conservation groups have filed a lawsuit challenging a recent federal government decision not to protect wolves in the northern U.S. Rocky Mountain region under the Endangered Species Act, arguing that states are exercising too much leeway to keep the predators’ numbers to a minimum. The groups sued […]
