From KJZZ.com:
The wild population of Mexican gray wolves in the United States was 286 at last count. That’s well below the number set by federal scientists to take it off the endangered species list.
Congress has never delisted a species that still meets the legal definition of endangered. But with backing from ranchers, an effort to do just that is advancing in Congress.
From LAIst.com:
Howl about this for the history books? A wolf was found in L.A. County for the first time in a century on Saturday morning.
“It’s the furthest south the gray wolves have been documented since their reintroduction into Yellowstone and Idaho just over 30 years ago,” said Axel Hunnicutt, the state gray wolf coordinator for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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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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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