From ABQJournal.com:
An annual helicopter count of endangered wolves has been indefinitely paused, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service won’t say why.
The Mexican gray wolf is a highly endangered subspecies of the gray wolf, which U.S. Fish and Wildlife, the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish and the Arizona Game and Fish Department are working to recover. There were 286 Mexican gray wolves counted in New Mexico and Arizona during the 2025 population count.
From AspenTimes.com:
Colorado Parks and Wildlife will not be releasing additional wolves this winter after failing to find a source for the third winter of the voter-mandated reintroduction program.
The state wildlife agency announced the decision on Wednesday, Jan. 21, coming just months after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service interrupted its plans to bring a batch of wolves from British Columbia.
From Phys.org:
A critique from a team led by Utah State University ecologist Dan MacNulty and published in Forest Ecology and Management has prompted a formal correction to a high-profile study on aspen recovery while raising broader questions about how scientific conclusions are drawn and defended in complex ecological systems.
From SantaFeNewMexican.com:
An endangered Mexican gray wolf was found dead Tuesday near Grants.
In an email chain provided to The New Mexican, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials confirmed M3065, nicknamed Taylor by his fans, was found dead on the side of Interstate 40. Officials wrote they suspected the lone male wolf was struck by a vehicle.
From GJSentinel.com:
Colorado Parks and Wildlife has been on the defensive over its handling of wildlife, from the rollout of wolf reintroduction to hunting regulations to mountain lions. Now staff and commissioners are facing a recurring challenge: threats against their safety and personal freedoms.
“Staff are charged with doing things that really can’t make everybody happy,” Commissioner Dallas May said last Wednesday during opening remarks at the state Parks and Wildlife Commission’s first monthly meeting of 2026 in Denver. Among the topics they addressed were the killing of two mountain lions in Larimer County after Fort Collins resident Kristen Marie Kovatch was found dead on New Year’s Day near Drake, a lion near her body.
From MorninAGClips.com:
DAVIS, Calif. — Nearly a decade after the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) confirmed the state’s first wolf pack, the rural community in Sierra Valley, California, faced unprecedented challenges when the Beyem Seyo wolf pack began to regularly attack and kill domestic livestock.
Despite extensive efforts at non-lethal deterrence, the pack became so dependent on cattle as a food source that several members of the pack were ultimately euthanized in October 2025. A new study out of UC Davis analyzed the costs associated with these wolf attacks and found that, when combining the costs of livestock losses and interventions aimed at deterring further depredations (the injuring or killing of livestock by wolves), the economic toll over seven months reached at least $2.6 million.
From FWS.gov:
PORTLAND, Oregon – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking information regarding the illegal killing of a federally listed endangered gray wolf in Lake County, near the Klamath County border in the Yamsay Mountain area of Oregon. Lake County is located west of Highway 395, where gray wolves are listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. The Service is offering up to a $10,000 reward for any information that leads to an arrest, a criminal conviction, or civil penalty assessment.
From SummitDaily.com:
A female gray wolf died in northwest Colorado on Friday, Jan. 16, marking the 12th death since Colorado Parks and Wildlife began its wolf reintroduction in December 2023.
It is the seventh wolf to die from the 15 wolves that Parks and Wildlife released from British Columbia in January 2025.
From The-Independent.com:
Gray wolves appear to be the latest victim of Donald Trump’s campaign of political retaliation against Colorado after the administration threatened to take control over state efforts to reintroduce the species, according to officials.
Last fall, as Colorado prepared to import 15 wolves from Canada as part of an ongoing species rehabilitation program, a “cease and desist” letter arrived from White House lawyers, according to The Washington Post.
From OutdoorLife.com:
Under Director Brian Nesvik the USFWS is deferring to states, prioritizing hunting and fishing access, assessing its refuges, leveraging technology, and enabling the energy-first agenda of the Trump administration.
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