From Asahi Shimbun: TSUKUBA, Ibaraki Prefecture–Hinako Komori quickly recognized that a stuffed specimen at a museum storehouse was likely a long-extinct Japanese wolf. But the elementary school girl faced difficulty trying to convince adults of her theory. It took Komori, now a 13-year-old second-year junior high school student in Tokyo, more than three years to […]
From Wyoming Public Radio: Wyoming lawmakers are considering possible changes to state laws about predator species management. This comes after global outrage over a Sublette County man captured a live wolf, brought it into a home and bar, and later killed the animal. Members of the Joint Interim Travel, Recreation, Wildlife & Cultural Resources Committee recently […]
From Oscoda Press: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Trust the Science Act, a bill that Representative Jack Bergman cosponsored, recently passed the House of Representatives. The legislation will permanently delist the gray wolf in the lower 48 states, return control of wolf conservation to the individual states, and ensure this decision is not subject to judicial […]
From The Wildlife Society: TWS President Bob Lanka testified in front of a Wyoming legislative committee asking lawmakers to address statutes that allow residents to kill or harass wolves from snowmobiles and other motorized vehicles in most of the state. “The Wildlife Society suggests the legislature consider a very narrow, craft revision to statutory language […]
From Fox News 9: INTERNATIONAL FALLS, Minn. (FOX 9) – The Voyageurs Wolf Project shared “amazing” video of a wolf hunting fish recently in northern Minnesota. The breeding female wolf of the Windsong Pack was captured on trail cameras fishing over the past few days in the Voyageurs National Park area of Minnesota, with the organization noting all the […]
From Sky-Hi News: On Wednesday, May 22, Colorado Parks and Wildlife released the latest map showing wolf activity across the state. Parks and Wildlife has released the maps monthly since January after reintroducing 10 wolves in Grand and Summit counties in December. The map depicts watersheds in which collared wolves have traveled between April 23 and May […]
From NPR for Northern Colorado: Wildlife biologists were excited last winter when they watched five wolves from Oregon sprint out of their cages into a snowy meadow in Grand County. “They’re majestic animals,” Colorado Parks and Wildlife species conservation manager Eric Odell told KUNC hours after the release in December. “It’s a pretty awesome thing […]
From Kuensel: A recent study on grey wolf distribution by the Nature Conservation Division (NCD) has found that the grey wolf occupies less than seven percent of the country’s area. This contrasts with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List, which indicates that the wolf range covers more than 50 percent of […]
From Powell Tribune: With Wyoming’s bear, wolf and mountain lion populations on the minds of many in the state as adventurers and tourists head to the hills for the summer season, Game and Fish Large Carnivore Biologist Luke Ellsbury took the mic at the Coe Auditorium in traditional red shirt, wool vest and a full […]
From Jackson Hole News & Guide: As a wildlife biologist, Jenny Fitzgerald has worked with Mexican gray wolves, capturing and studying the canines south of the U.S. border. She has seen plenty of wolves in the wild and handled plenty of wolves in Mexico but had never been able to get up close and personal […]
