From The Aspen Times: It has been nearly 11 months since Colorado brought 10 wolves from Oregon and released them in the state’s northwestern region. Since then, according to the agency’s monthly watershed maps, most of the wolf activity has been centered around Routt, Jackson, and Grand counties. Click here for the full story.
From missoulacurrent.com: The Endangered Species Act has pulled both grizzly bears and wolves back from the brink of extinction in the U.S. But as politics and human expansion become worse, will recovery continue, and do we have the will to make it so? Those were the questions that two eminent biologists tried to address Wednesday […]
From MontanaRightNow.com: Montana’s wolf trapping season will again run from Jan. 1 through Feb. 15 in western and most of central Montana – the same as last year’s season following a federal court order – and from Dec. 2 through March 15 for regions 6 and 7 in eastern Montana, according to a proposal on which the […]
From Post Independent: With more wolves on the way, Colorado Parks and Wildlife is hosting several trainings this fall to help ranchers learn about nonlethal mitigation strategies. The state wildlife agency has partnered on the training sessions with the Colorado Department of Agriculture, the Colorado State University Extension and the Wildlife Services arm of the […]
From Elk Horn Media Group: EASTERN OREGON – In conjunction with the latest wolf depredation and lethal removal update provided by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (a summary of which can be found here), ODFW announced it would be discontinuing weekly emails announcing wolf depredations and lethal removal authorizations. This information will still be available […]
From Summit Daily: In October, Colorado’s collared wolves continued to explore several of the state’s northwestern counties. According to the most recent map released by Colorado Parks and Wildlife, which shows their activity from Sept. 24 to Oct. 22, the wolves continued to move primarily around portions of Routt, Jackson, Eagle, Summit, Grand and Larimer counties. The map uses […]
From Baker City Herald: Federal employees killed two wolves from the Balloon Tree pack in northern Union County on Oct. 17 after state biologists confirmed that wolves from the pack had killed 12 sheep on private land north of Elgin the previous week. Wolves killed four ewes and eight lambs on a 2,200-acre pasture in […]
From NPR: In honor of Halloween, we’re bringing you a Short Wave ghost story — featuring an animal that has long been the stuff of conservationist legend: the American red wolf. This small, cinnamon-colored canid roamed free across the American Southeast, preying on deer and small mammals and occupying a key spot in Gulf Coast ecosystems. But […]
From cgtn.com: The EU is set to weaken the conservation status of wolves by the end of the year, which could result in widespread culling. The legislation, however, needs to pass several EU bodies before it can come into effect. This is a complete turnaround in the bloc’s conservation policy. Thirty years ago, the EU re-established […]
From Denver7: BROOMFIELD, Colo. — Ahead of the second round of gray wolf reintroductions in Colorado this upcoming winter, state authorities are offering opportunities to train livestock producers to use non-lethal deterrents to protect their animals from wolves. Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) explained that this is part of a larger effort to help those producers […]
