From Northern News Now: EFFIE, MN. (Northern News Now) – Where’d the deer go? That’s the question being asked by frustrated hunters across northeast Minnesota after years of falling populations, culminating in a near record low harvest this season. The lack of success seems to have both hunters and deer agreeing on an ultimate enemy. […]
From Hungry Horse News: U.S. District Court Judge Donald Molloy Nov. 21 issued a preliminary junction that significantly shortens Montana’s wolf trapping season by several weeks. Climate change played a role in his decision. The wolf trapping season under state law was set to begin as early as Monday (Nov. 27), but two environmental groups, […]
From NPR Kansas Public Radio: Colorado’s urban population flipped the state from red to blue, allowing a referendum on a polarizing issue to pass. Wildlife officials are now preparing for the reintroduction of gray wolves. Click here for the full story.
From Phys.org: A group of environmental organizations has submitted a petition to the federal government to ban wolf killing by shooting from helicopters, calling the practice “barbaric.” The Center for Biological Diversity, Western Watersheds Project and International Wildlife Coexistence Network said they were prompted by Idaho’s Wolf Depredation Control Board’s October decision to approve the […]
From KTVB 7: BOISE, Idaho — Three conservation groups signed a petition calling for the Idaho State Department of Agriculture (ISDA) to immediately ban shooting wildlife from an aircraft, such as a helicopter. The groups – Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), International Wildlife Coexistence Network (IWCN), Western Watersheds – are seeking the protection of Idaho wolves. The […]
From Yahoo News: A wolf expert in B.C. is praising a Yellowknife woman for the way she handled an encounter with a pack of wolves near Yellowknife over the weekend. Stephanie Yuill told Lawrence Nayally, the host of CBC’s Trails End, she was walking along the shore of Fox Lake on Saturday when she rounded a point […]
From Daily Montanan: Montanans will have the ability to get questions answered by Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials starting next week on the agency’s first proposed update to its wolf management plan in 20 years. FWP is holding six public meetings, including five in person across the state and one virtual meeting, on the 2023 Montana Gray Wolf […]
From Minnesota Reformer: Minnesota’s 2023 deer hunt is shaping up to be a bit of a disappointment, and some hunters and their allies in media and politics know precisely who to blame: wolves. A hunting group recently erected a billboard near Eveleth, for instance, making the fantastical claim that “wolves devour over 54,000 fawns a year in Minnesota.” […]
From WyoFile: An electronic call drew the canine in. The recorded sounds of a pronghorn in distress blared from a point some 600 yards north of the Colorado-Wyoming state line. It was a Saturday in May 2019, and the hunters at first thought they were looking at a coyote. Click here for the full […]
From Ridgewater and Raritan News: RARITAN, NJ – John F. Kennedy Primary School fourth grader Vir Grover has been working with Raritan Borough Mayor Zachary Bray to raise awareness and help save wolves. Bray has since decided to feature a call to action on the website for the borough, raritanboro.org. Click here for the full […]
