From The Daily Montanan: The Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Department says that hunting and trapping wolves is fine. But, it doesn’t have the resources to translocate — or move — them to another state. In May 2023, Jeff Davis, Colorado’s Director of Parks and Wildlife, sent a request to Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington, […]
From CBS News: f you’ve been keeping up with the coverage on wolf reintroduction in Colorado, you already know Don Gittleson, the rancher near Walden who has been dealing with wolves coming after his livestock even before wolves were dropped in the state late last year. Now that the new wolves are here, and the new rules too, Gittleson […]
From Washington Policy Center: Gray wolf management is at the center of two more bills introduced this legislative session. Washington state is home to at least 216 gray wolves in 37 recognized packs – most of which call Northeast Washington home. House Bill 2423 – relating to gray wolf management – and House Bill 2424 […]
From Cowboy State Daily: When wolves were first reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in the mid-1990s, there were about 20,000 elk in the park’s northern herd. Now there are roughly 8,000. Meanwhile, the opposite has happened with bison in the area with their numbers ballooning from about 500 to roughly 4,460. And accordingly, wolves have […]
From PBS Wisconsin: MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans sent a bill to Gov. Tony Evers on Jan. 25 that would mandate state wildlife managers set a cap on the state’s wolf population, forcing the governor to choose between pleasing conservationists who want to protect the creatures and farmers who say wolves are destroying their […]
From Vail Daily: Sen. Dylan Roberts and House Speaker Julie McCluskie sent a letter to the governor and the directors of Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the Colorado Department of Natural Resources on Jan. 22 requesting that the agency immediately draft a rule to determine when wolves are considered to be “chronically depredating.” The letter […]
From The Guardian: It was a mild, windless night, sometime before dawn on 1 September 2022, when a large grey wolf trotted out of the woods beside Beinhorn, a hamlet of old barns and graceful wooden houses in the German state of Lower Saxony. The keen nose of the male wolf almost certainly scented that […]
From The Wildlife Society: As the wolf turns to face the camera, it lets out an iconic howl. It’s part of the footage captured by trail camera of California’s newest known pack of gray wolves (Canis lupus), known as the Yowlumni Pack. The pack appeared last summer in the Sequoia National Forest near the Tule […]
From Sky-Hi News: Sen. Dylan Roberts and House Speaker Julie McCluskie sent a letter to the governor and the directors of Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the Colorado Department of Natural Resources on Jan. 22 requesting that the agency immediately draft a rule to determine when wolves are considered to be “chronically depredating.” The letter […]
From The Spokesman-Review: Wolves from tribal land in Eastern Washington will be moved to Colorado to aid in reintroduction efforts next year under an agreement announced this week. The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation have agreed to be a source for up to 15 wolves for Colorado’s gray wolf reintroduction efforts, according to a […]
