Entries by Carissa Winter

Watch: Wolf Pack Chases Hundreds of Stampeding Elk Before Taking Down a Cow

From Field and Stream: There’s a reason Yellowstone National Park is the Shangri-La of wildlife viewing and photography—and it’s because you can encounter scenes like this there. On Thursday, October 5, wildlife tour guide Michael Sypniewski shared a video on Instagram of a stunning wildlife interaction that took place within the park. The footage begins showing a […]

Colorado still looking for wolves

From KJCT News 8: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) – Colorado Parks and Wildlife is approaching a hard deadline to reintroduce gray wolves into the state. While Colorado has been searching where they’ll acquire wolves from, three other states rejected Colorado’s request for wolves. Over the summer CPW officials reached out to the Nez Perce tribe […]

Wolf reintroduction donor possibly located

From CBS Colorado: For a while now, Colorado has been searching for an organization that would be willing to help the state re-introduce 30-50 wolves into the north-western part of the state before the Dec. 31 deadline comes this year. After striking out with four different states (Idaho, Montana, Oregon,  and Washington, who said “maybe check back later”) the […]

With sheep and wolves, a new generation faces an age-old conflict

From Idaho Mountain Express: Sheepherders have most likely faced danger from predators since sheep were first domesticated in Mesopotamia 10,000 years ago. Such prey-predator relations are part and parcel of ecosystems. Idaho sheep ranchers have had to worry about wolves again after they were reintroduced to the region under a federal mandate in 1996, against […]

Lawsuit Challenges ‘Nonessential’ Designation of Last Wild Red Wolf Population

From Center for Biological Diversity: RALEIGH, N.C.— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit today challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to classify the world’s last wild population of red wolves as ‘nonessential.’ The red wolf is listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act and is among the most imperiled species in the world. Just 13 […]

Switzerland Grapples With the Return of Gray Wolves

From Sierra: Ten years ago, high in the Alps, two gray wolves crossed the Italian border into Switzerland. Within a year they had pups, settling in the southern canton, or province, of Grisons, and the Calanda wolf pack was born. It was the first since the mid-19th century, when wolves were hunted to extinction in […]

Gray wolf management in Wisconsin remains a Legislature debacle

The Daily Cardinal: Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is set to present their newly revised wolf population management plan to the Natural Resources Board during their October meeting — a plan that still faces opposition from the Republican-backed Senate Committee of Financial Institutions and Sporting Heritage. The DNR’s updated plan continues to advise an adaptive approach toward […]