From Denver7.com:
DENVER — An uncollared yearling wolf that was part of the One Ear Pack was killed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) agents on Tuesday after the agency found it was involved in multiple depredations.
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From CyclingMagazine.ca:
David Ward had spent months preparing to ride across Canada. He’s riding from Skagway, Alaska to Cape Spear, Newfoundland. The 55-year-old from London, England had researched bears, backcountry safety measures and packed bear spray before heading into some of the country’s more remote highways. Wolves, though, barely registered.
From Schiff.Senate.Gov:
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Steve Daines (R-Mont.) are introducing bipartisan legislation to reduce conflicts between humans and wildlife, including attacking livestock, damaging human infrastructure, and harming agriculture.
From NBCMontana.com:
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is seeking public comment on several proposals, including a private fish pond license application, hunting regulations and license auction organizations.
From BeefMagazine.com:
The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA), Public Lands Council (PLC) and Wisconsin Cattlemen’s Association urged the Senate to pass S. 1306 and thanked Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) for elevating this critical issue on behalf of livestock producers.
From The Colorado Sun:
Matthew Hyde replaces Eric Odell at a time Colorado’s wolf-reintroduction program is at a crossroads with increasing rancher conflicts, a federal review but also new packs and pups.
From SmithsonianMag.com:
Gray wolves know that the best way to survive in this world is together. They live in pack families, relying on each other to hunt hoofed mammals many times their size. A single wolf doesn’t want to be alone for long.
“So much of how the wolf appears rhetorically in America is in this ‘lone wolf,’” says writer Erica Berry, author of the 2023 book Wolfish: Wolf, Self and the Stories We Tell About Fear. “It’s like the wolf howling alone at the top of the mountain.”
From The Billings Gazette:
After arriving in Yellowstone in 2019, a fresh-from-college Taylor Rabe was quite literally thrown to the wolves. “Having just finished up my zoology degree at Ohio State, I was actually more excited to get the chance to study the ungulates in the park,” she wrote in an email.
Yet her first job was working as a naturalist for the Yellowstone Wolf Tracker guide service.
From WorldAtlas.com:
Wolves have returned to seven North American national parks or national park reserves, but not through one shared recovery story. Yellowstone received 41 relocated wolves between 1995 and 1997.
Grand Teton, Glacier, Banff, and Pacific Rim were recolonized by animals moving through connected wilderness. Isle Royale required an emergency population rescue after inbreeding reduced its wolves to only two.
From TheTyee.ca:
Each winter for the past decade, sharpshooters hired by the B.C. government have killed hundreds of wolves from helicopters in a last-ditch attempt to save struggling caribou herds.
This year, the B.C. government spent $1.55 million to shoot 301 wolves that posed a threat to boreal and mountain caribou herds, according to unpublished information The Tyee obtained from the B.C. Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship.
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