Entries by Carissa Winter

Reward offered for wolf killed near Union Creek

From Herald and News: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the person or persons related to the death of a federally protected gray wolf near Union Creek, a small community in Jackson County that is 23 miles west of Crater Lake National Park. […]

Feds Shrink Montana Wolf Trapping Seasons to Protect Grizzly Bears

From Field & Stream: A federal judge has cut wolf trapping season in half in most of Montana. The decision comes after multiple animal advocacy groups filed a lawsuit claiming that federally-protected grizzly bears are being unintentionally snared in the western part of the Big Sky State. According to Montana Public Radio four cases of grizzlies with […]

Four Endangered Mexican Wolves have found Solace in Minnesota

From WJON: The Wildlife Science Center, located in Stacy, Minnesota, is the home to the largest population of wolves in the country and an education and research facility. Four endangered Mexican wolves have recently joined the facility, bringing the total count of Mexican wolves to 9. The Wildlife Science Center has been home to Mexican […]

Wolves, deer, and deer hunting in northeastern Minnesota: the data

From Voyageurs Wolf Project: There is much debate regarding the role wolves have on deer populations and deer hunting in particular. Many have stated that wolves are “decimating” the deer population in Minnesota and that we need to kill wolves to resolve this issue. We examined publicly-available information collected by the Minnesota Department of Natural […]