From SummitDaily.com:
President Donald Trump ordered the federal government to look at delisting gray wolves and Mexican gray wolves over the next 90 days.
In Colorado, where voters mandated the reintroduction of gray wolves in 2020, the change in federal protections would have little impact on how the state manages the species.
From MinnPost.com:
Minnesota ranchers angered by Trump’s decision to import cheaper beef would be able to process their own meat and go after a predator that has long had federal protection, the gray wolf, under an executive order.
From the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife:
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) staff are considering the incremental lethal removal of a wolf or wolves from the Couse wolf pack territory in southeast Washington following recurrent depredations in that area.
From USAToday:
The Last Howl, an Alberta film about two brothers who raised wolves, with a theme song from Los Lobos and an unreleased Blue Öyster Cult recording, arrives on environmental documentary streaming platform The Green Channel.
From ScienceBlog.com:
Ancient DNA from a 14,300-year-old jawbone in Somerset and a Siberian wolf pup’s last meal is reshaping how we understand dog domestication, pointing toward wolves that essentially tamed themselves around Ice Age human camps.
From SpaceWar.com:
Ten wolves were counted on Isle Royale in the first monitored winter after relocation. By April 2023, the minimum count on the Lake Superior archipelago stood at 27 — the outcome of a translocation effort that moved 19 gray wolves onto the island between September 2018 and September 2019, and the central finding of a five-year assessment of that effort published in Conservation Science and Practice.
From 9News.com:
This brings the total number of wolves that have died under the agency’s watch to 19 since the wolf relocation program started in December of 2023.
From Democrata.es:
Madrid finances with 200,000 euros 58 ranchers to reinforce fences, mastiffs, and technology against attacks from Iberian wolves.
From Web.uri.edu:
A junior majoring in marine biology, Joshua Carr is conducting research through the CELS Summer Fellowship program with the Comparative Ecophysiology of Animals (CEAL) Lab, led by assistant professor of wildlife biology Sarah Kienle.
Fascinated by apex predators, Carr is investigating how gray wolves interact with sea otters and marine resources near the lab’s field site in Prince of Wales, Alaska.
From Tiffay.house.gov:
WAUSAU, WI – Congressman Tom Tiffany (WI-07) today applauded President Trump’s executive action directing the Department of the Interior to determine whether gray wolves meet the criteria for removal from protections under the Endangered Species Act and begin the process of delisting them.
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