From Payson Roundup: The nearly 20-year effort to return Mexican gray wolves to the wild has struggled, thanks to fierce debates, lawsuits, poaching, genetic bottlenecks and high death rates among the reintroduced wolves, often due to hunters, federal trappers, poachers, cars and other human causes. However, the year-end census in 2022 put the wolf numbers […]
From the Mountain Mail: Ten gray wolves will be making the long journey from Oregon to Colorado this year as part of the wolf reintroduction effort. Colorado Parks and Wildlife and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife announced in a press releaseOct. 6 a one-year agreement that detailed the sourcing of wolves from Oregon to […]
From Geographical: As the first rays of morning light streak across the frozen gorse and heather, and in the heavens, 100,000 stars fade from view, a sudden movement catches my eye. A large creature with a reputation as dark as the moorland night moves with unnerving speed and silence over this bleak, high-altitude landscape. Pausing […]
From Rocky Mountain Outlook: BANFF – Twenty-five years ago, Canmore wildlife biologist Karsten Heuer embarked on an epic 3,400-kilometre journey from Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming to Watson Lake in the Yukon, following the path of wide-ranging species like wolves and grizzly bears. Taking a break from his job at Parks Canada, Heuer plotted the […]
From The Guardian: In the pre-dawn darkness of Sierra de la Culebra, Zamora, Spain, a sudden howl pierces the cold. More join in, until the baying chorus echoes all around. As the sky begins to lighten, their shapes emerge: first the alpha male, and then the rest of the wolf pack, appearing in the twilight where […]
From the Piscataquis Observer: A video from northern Maine submitted to the BDN of a probable male wolf and four of his pups stirred up some discussion. The Maine Wolf Coalition has submitted photographic evidence of individual animals that could be wolves, but biologists consistently say there are no breeding wolf populations in the state. Click here […]
From Central Oregon Daily News: A new exhibit showcasing wolves opens Saturday at the High Desert Museum. “Wolves: Photography by Ronan Donovan” gives visitors a close-up view of gray wolves through the lens of a National Geographic explorer and photographer, and provides an inside look at the daily lives of the wild canines. “You know what are […]
From AP: MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Senate passed a Republican-backed bill Tuesday that would force state wildlife managers to set a firm numeric goal for the state’s wolf population. The proposal, which next heads to the Assembly, comes after the Department of Natural Resources did not set a hard cap on the state’s […]
From WisPolitics: Madison, WI – On Tuesday, the Wisconsin State Senate convened for Regular Session and the Governor’s Special Session on Workforce Development. During the Governor’s Special Session, Republicans in the Legislature – the lawmaking body of government – took up an amended version of the Governor’s proposal. This bill, as passed, includes investments in childcare, […]
From National Academies: onservation efforts over the past several decades in the U.S. have enabled many species of wolf to begin to recover from near total extinction — including the gray wolf of the Northern Rockies and western Great Lakes region, the red wolf in the southeastern part of the country, and the Mexican gray […]
