Entries by Carissa Winter

Wyoming Game and Fish share proposed updates to annual wolf hunting regulations

From Aspen Public Radio: The Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) has held meetings around the state on proposed updates to wolf hunting regulations in northwest Wyoming. These regulations are updated annually. Earlier this week, state wildlife officials presented the data and guidelines that inform their regulations aimed at keeping gray wolf populations healthy at […]

Have Wolves Returned Yellowstone to its Natural State?

From Mountain Journal: Yellowstone National Park looks different than it did 30 years ago. That much everyone can agree upon. How different? And who or what is responsible for that change? The answer is where scientific opinion seems to diverge. Most everyone has heard the story of the term “trophic cascade.” Most of us have seen […]

Fishing with wolves: New exhibit explores what the predators eat in summer

From MPR News: A new exhibit at the International Wolf Center in Ely explores how wolves survive during the summer months, a tougher time to bring down their usual prey. Titled “Starvation, Adaptation and Survival — Insights from the Voyageurs Wolf Project,” the exhibit showcases research from the University of Minnesota. In summer, researchers say wolves must expend extra […]

Ranchers, ODFW gather in Wallowa County to talk wolves

From The Observer: ENTERPRISE — A small gathering of ranchers, police and representatives of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife resulted in increased understanding of Northeast Oregon’s problem of wolf-livestock conflicts Tuesday, May 21. About a half-dozen ranchers and the same number of ODFW officials, along with Wallowa County Sheriff Ryan Moody and Sheriff’s […]

National wolf advocates are met with stock trailers and frustrated locals in Daniel

From Wyoming Public Media: On Sunday morning the sleepy town of Daniel, Wyoming, population 108, was anything but. The single lane highway through town was lined bumper to bumper with trucks, livestock trailers, semis and hundreds of people. This was the local response to a weeks-long publicized arrival of a motorcycle brigade of wolf advocates. ‘Hogs for […]

Culling controversy as French wolf population falls in 2023

From Phys.org: The estimated number of wolves in France last year was 1,003, down nine percent from the year before, environmental associations said Thursday, urging the French government to lower its quota for the number of the animals which can be killed each year. The drop in the predator’s population is the first in almost […]