Entries by Carissa Winter

Asha the Lobo captures the heart of New Mexico

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 […]

Colorado Will Reintroduce Endangered Gray Wolves This Month

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 […]

Bills to Require Controversial Wolf Population Limit Advancing

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 […]

Reward offered for tips on gray wolf illegally killed in Southern Oregon

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, […]

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 […]