From Fox News: Wildlife officials plan to release gray wolves in Colorado in coming weeks, at the behest of urban voters and to the dismay of rural residents who don’t want the predators but have waning influence in the Democratic-led state. The most ambitious wolf reintroduction effort in the U.S. in almost three decades marks a sharp […]
From The Journal: The restoration of wolves to Colorado is an historic conservation effort to return and preserve the integrity of wild ecosystems in the Southern Rocky Mountains. This is why I feel compelled to respond to an article recently appearing in The Durango Herald, originating from The Colorado Sun, “How are wildlife officials preparing Coloradans […]
From Duluth News Tribune: CARLTON — Deer hunters across Minnesota must rally together and pressure politicians in St. Paul and Washington to remove wolves from federal endangered species protections and allow an open season to cull their numbers. That was the message to a packed meeting Wednesday night organized by the new northern Minnesota-based group Hunters […]
From the Bemidji Pioneer: CARLTON — Deer hunters across Minnesota must rally together and pressure politicians in St. Paul and Washington to remove wolves from federal endangered species protections and allow an open season to cull their numbers. That was the message to a packed meeting Wednesday night organized by the new northern Minnesota-based group Hunters […]
From Source NM: Lobos are culturally and environmentally significant to New Mexico and a Mexican gray wolf that wildlife experts say is resilient in face of peril and breaks assumptions, something many New Mexicans can relate too, is back after a long trip. Asha the Mexican gray wolf #2754 has now returned to the northern […]
From Idaho Capital Sun: Wildlife conservation groups on Nov. 29 filed a legal petition asking the U.S. Forest Service to prohibit aerial gunning of wildlife in national forests in Idaho. The petition was filed by International Wildlife Coexistence Network, the Center for Biological Diversity and Western Watersheds Project. Click here for the full story.
From Smithsonian Magazine: Colorado is set to start reintroducing gray wolves within the coming weeks. Voters passed a ballot initiative in 2020 that requires the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission (CPW) to begin reintroduction efforts by the end of this year. Over the course of this month, officials will capture, transport and release up to […]
From CBC News: Wolf sightings have been “persistent” around Yellowknife, Ndilǫ and Dettah recently — and a chief with the Yellowknives Dene First Nation says it’s because they’ve lost habitat in this year’s wildfires. Fred Sangris, the chief of Ndilǫ, said fires burned a lot of land in the region and drove away the wolves’ prey. […]
From Wisconsin Ag Connection: Two GOP bills that would require the state to set a specific numerical wolf population goal in future grey wolf management plans are pitting agriculture and pro-hunting interests against some conservation and animal welfare groups. Agriculture and hunting and wildlife interests that support Assembly Bill 137 and Senate Bill 139 want […]
From A $5,000 reward is being offered for information about a gray wolf that was illegally killed in Southern Oregon. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is offering the bounty for information leading to arrests related to the death of the federally protected wolf. On Nov. 13 the collared male wolf, identified as OR 125, […]
