Entries by Carissa Winter

Gray wolf found in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula near Battle Creek

From News Advocate Manistee: During a January legal coyote hunt, a Michigan hunter reported that he harvested a large animal in Calhoun County. Genetic tests revealed the animal to be a gray wolf. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources announced Wednesday that it is continuing to search for wolves in the Lower Peninsula. However, has found only […]

Will wolf-watchers flock to Colorado? Tourism leaders have mixed opinions

From NPR for Northern Colorado: Wolves don’t just fascinate or intrigue Nathan Varley. They’re his livelihood. Varley and his wife, Linda Thurston, run a wolf-watching business called Yellowstone Wolf Tracker. For 17 years they’ve helped hundreds of tourists glimpse and photograph the national park’s famous wolf packs. Customers also see bison, grizzly bears and other wildlife. But […]

Native-carnivore bill would tie depredation compensation to coexistence strategies

From Aspen Journalism: Colorado state Rep. Tammy Story stepped into the world of gray wolves during last year’s legislative session when Western Slope lawmakers pushed forward Senate Bill 256, a bill potentially delaying wolf reintroduction if a federal plan was not finalized that would allow lethal control of wolves that preyed on livestock.   Click here […]

Who killed the last wolf in Wales?

From BBC: Wild dogs were a daily, or nightly, source of terror for people living in the principalities which formed ancient Wales until at least the 13th Century. So it is perhaps little surprise these dogs, or more likely wolves, have formed a massive part of mythic and folklore values to this day, from place […]

Michigan DNR takes on the challenge of counting wolves

From The Daily News: Watching the road ahead, he notices a line of tracks in the snow that lead from a dense stand of trees along a creek. The man stops the sled and as it idles, he leans over for a better view. He’s found what he’s looking for — gray wolf tracks. The […]

Evers vetoes bill seeking statewide population goal for wolves

From Wisconsin Public Radio: Democratic Gov. Tony Evers has vetoed a Republican bill that would have ordered state wildlife regulators to set a statewide population goal for wolves. The legislation was introduced by Sen. Rob Stafsholt, R-New Richmond, and Rep. Chanz Green, R-Grand View, after the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources nixed a population goal […]

Bill seeks to help wolves, which can be mistaken for coyotes

From Times Union: ALBANY — A new bill aimed at protecting wolves in New York proposes collecting more data from the hunters and trappers who could mistakenly kill the endangered animals when believe they are coyotes, which can be legally hunted. State Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal, a sponsor of the legislation, noted that wolves are mistakenly killed […]