From Bertie Ledger-Advance: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is releasing the final revision of the Red Wolf Recovery Plan to guide recovery efforts for “America’s Red Wolf.” The original recovery plan for the Red Wolf was approved in 1982 and was revised in 1984 and 1990. The Service published a draft revised recovery plan […]
From the Denver Post: The wolf population in northeastern Oregon is resilient and will not suffer long-term impacts from the captures, according to the news release. State officials plan to release the wolves on Colorado Parks and Wildlife land between Glenwood Springs, Vail and the Roaring Fork Valley. Although Oregon wildlife officials will help by […]
From Fox9: The Voyageurs Wolf Project shared the first video of the Bug Creek Pack pups on social media this week. Click here for the full story.
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 […]
From CBS Colorado: CBS News Colorado mountain newsroom reporter Spencer Wilsons provides the latest update on Colorado’s wolf reintroduction plan and why the state is having an issue finding wolves to use. Click here for the full story.
From Green Matters: One of the most consistent ways people have tried to protect our planet is by conserving endangered animals. The Endangered Species Act was created in 1973 to expedite protections for threatened or endangered species; but sometimes, legislation like this isn’t enough. Click here for the full story.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
