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, […]
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. […]
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 […]
From Star Tribune: In a revolt against what it says is an overabundance of wolves in the North Woods, a group of deer hunters concerned about the scarcity of whitetails has formed a new hunters rights group eager to rock the boat on the politics of wolf management. Still in its infancy, Hunters For Hunters […]
From Out There Colorado: As Colorado’s media continues to track the ongoing topic of wolf reintroduction, a recent report from Colorado Sun’s Tracy Ross provides valuable insight on the subject. Ross reports that Colorado Parks and Wildlife will start the process of collecting wolves in Oregon on December 8, with the current plan being to release these wolves in […]
