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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
From Fox News 31: DENVER (KDVR) — A calf was killed in Jackson County on May 25, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife, and a wolf is to blame. Further details from CPW were not available on Monday, but Steamboat Radio reported that a rancher suspects a wolf got one of his calves. CPW is working […]
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 […]
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 […]
