Five gray wolves collared in NorCal, reducing conflicts with livestock

From Yahoo.com:

(FOX40.COM) — California wildlife officials have fitted satellite collars on five gray wolves in Northern California as part of ongoing efforts to monitor the state’s growing wolf population and reduce conflicts with livestock.

According to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the helicopter-capture operations took place between Jan. 12 and Jan. 20 across Lassen, Modoc, Shasta, Siskiyou and Tehama counties. The wolves were associated with the Whaleback and Harvey packs.

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On their own, wolves walk into Washington state

From MethowValleyNews.com:

In 2008, Canadian wolves didn’t wait for an invitation from biologists to move them into Washington state. Instead, they trotted across the border because they liked the territory.

The pair that found each other to form Washington’s first wolf pack came from far-flung places: the Canadian Rockies and the British Columbia coast. The spontaneous recolonization has become a notable success story.

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Closure gives cougars, wolves space and security to hunt on Banff’s Tunnel Mountain

From TownaAndCountryToday.com:

BANFF – Cougars and wolves hunting elk and deer on the slopes of Tunnel Mountain have forced closure of an area for the next two months.

The seasonal closure around Tunnel Mountain and east of Tunnel Mountain to the Hoodoo Trailhead, which lies within important winter hunting habitat for carnivores as well as crucial winter range for ungulates, came into effect on Jan. 24 and runs until March 31.

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Wolf reduction boosts caribou survival—but only in rugged terrain

From UBC.ca:

Reducing wolves to protect endangered caribou doesn’t always deliver the expected results—and the shape of the land may be the deciding factor.

That’s according to research led by doctoral student Tazarve Gharajehdaghipour and professor Dr. Cole Burton in the faculty of forestry and environmental stewardship, which examined newborn caribou survival in Itcha Ilgachuz Park in west-central B.C.

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This wolf in Ethiopia survived where it seemed impossible — but the real impact came after its release

From Futura-Sciences.com:

In May 2020, high in Ethiopia’s Simien Mountains, conservationists made a decision no one had attempted before. After discovering an Ethiopian wolf shot and left with a shattered leg, researchers chose to intervene, capturing, treating and ultimately releasing one of the world’s rarest carnivores back into the wild. What followed reshaped both local conservation efforts and how nearby communities viewed a predator once thought beyond saving.

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Federal agents kill two more wolves in Baker County [Oregon]

From BakerCityHerald.com:

BAKER CITY — Employee from U.S. Wildlife Services, a federal agency, trapped and killed two wolves in the Keating Valley east of Baker City on Tuesday, Feb. 3. That brings to three the total of wolves killed there in the past week after a series of wolf attacks on cattle prompted the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to authorize agents to kill up to four wolves from the Black Pines Pack.

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Remote cameras in Yellowstone capture cougars and wolves on the hunt. The footage reveals something important

From DiscoverWildlife.com:

Imagine being a cougar in Yellowstone National Park in the northern USA. Until the mid-1990s, you were the area’s top predator and could take down the abundant elk – herbivores very closely related to European red deer – almost at will.

Then something changed. Wolves were reintroduced and have slowly increased in number.

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[Colorado] CLLA expands to include gray wolf depredations

From DChieftain.com:

The County Livestock Loss Authority (CLLA) will now accept claims of gray wolf depredations and discussed also including claims from all over the state while still facing financial uncertainty.

“It seems to me that there is a lot of upside to this, and the risks are primarily financial right now, but I think those are minimal because we’re getting ahead of the problem,” CLLA Chair and Catron County Representative Haydn Forward said.

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Plumas County [California] warns hikers and dog walkers after wolf attacks steer in Four Corners

From MyNews4.com:

Plumas County authorities are urging caution after confirming a wolf attack on a steer in the “Four Corners” area north of Chandler Road in Quincy, earlier this week.

The Plumas County Sheriff’s Office was notified on Feb. 4, after a steer that had escaped its enclosure was spotted on game cameras being aggressively circled by what appeared to be a wolf. The owner rushed to the area and reported seeing the wolf run north up the road away from the catch pen.

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Colorado’s ‘out of control’ costs tied to wolf attacks on livestock come under fire by lawmaker

From AspenTimes.com:

As Colorado continues the voter-mandated reintroduction of gray wolves, the state is continuing to refine and improve its process for preventing, investigating, and reporting livestock losses from the predator. This could include changes to how it publicly reports wolf attacks on livestock.

Since Colorado Parks and Wildlife began the gray wolf restoration in December 2023, it has confirmed 51 events of wolf predation on livestock, according to its online tracker.

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