From CBS: Three wolves roaming the mountains in northeastern Nevada would have been notable for a state without an established wolf population. But one recent sighting of a wolf-like animal trio in that area turned out to be a false alarm, after an investigation and a round of genetic tests revealed that the creatures are […]
From BBC: In early May, a pack of endangered red wolves welcomed a special litter of pups. Biologists are working hard to raise the population of red wolves, which is down to around 20 in the wild. The eight pups were born when a male red wolf called Finch integrated with a wild wolf pack, […]
From Public News Service: Ahead of Endangered Species Day this Friday, conservation groups in North Carolina are celebrating the birth of eight red wolf pups at the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge. Red wolves, once a dominant presence across the Southeastern United States, are now teetering on the brink of extinction, with only 30 confirmed adults living […]
From The Denver Post: The reintroduced Colorado wolf found dead last month in Larimer County likely died after being attacked by a mountain lion, according to a necropsy conducted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The gray wolf was one of 10 released in December in Colorado’s central mountains as part of a voter-mandated reintroduction effort. […]
From Texas Monthly: Bridgett vonHoldt was grabbing lunch at Viet Cajun, a restaurant on the Galveston Island Seawall, when a chatty local approached her. The man had pegged her and her group, correctly, as out-of-towners. Birders, he figured, if the binoculars they carried were any clue. “You know what you should do,” he told vonHoldt, “is […]
From Boise Public Radio: The number of wolves killed in Idaho this past year is down. Katie Oelrich with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game told members of the Wolf Depredation Control Board Thursday that 389 wolves have been killed in the state since last July. “This includes hunting, trapping, Wildlife Services removals, roadkill […]
From Cowboy State Daily: The eyes of the world have been on Wyoming since a wolf was tortured and killed in Daniel, but if reform is to come from the incident, it should be Wyoming’s business, not the world’s, an avid hunter from Dubois said. “I think that here in Wyoming, we recognize that we have our […]
From Vail Daily: Born and raised on a Cherokee reservation in North Carolina, Grey Bear owned Sleeping Giant Ranch in Routt County from 2002 to 2017 and now owns a hunting and fishing lodge in the British Columbia, Canada. The Canadian province, larger than the countries of France and Germany combined, is a place where wildlife […]
From Quetico Superior Wilderness News: The current population in Minnesota stands relatively stable at around 2,900 wolves. Prime habitat lies within the Quetico Superior region, where they prefer forests and inland wetlands. If the bill passes into law, it means that management would shift from federal to state governance. While the Biden administration has expressed […]
From Sky-Hi News: Colorado Parks and Wildlife has confirmed that one yearling heifer was killed by a wolf or wolves in Grand County. CPW confirmed this most recent depredation on Saturday. CPW posted the incident on its Wolf Depredation Report webpage on its website on Sunday. CPW defines any depredation as physical trauma resulting in injury or […]
