From Vail Daily:
Wild Ranch and Working Dogs for Conservation came together for 10 days in North Park in August to test a new idea to aid producers dealing with wolf-livestock conflict.
From The Wildlife Society:
Should they stay or should they go? How young wolves make this decision has less to do with them clashing with their families and more to do with food availability and wolf density.
From The Aspen Times:
Colorado’s collared gray wolves remained centralized in the state’s northwestern region in August.
While the region contains the territories for all four of Colorado’s reproducing packs — and a fifth non-reproducing pack — wolf activity also pressed against the state’s borders with Wyoming and Utah during the past month.
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From Mongabay:
The government of the Canadian province of British Columbia is in talks to extend its decade-long wolf cull program by another five years. Since 2015, the province has killed wolves in areas with declining populations of endangered woodland caribou as part of its Caribou Recovery Program.
From Yahoo.com:
The California Wolf Center is preparing for a major expansion that leaders say will make its education programs more accessible and broaden its focus beyond wolves to other native California predators.
From KQEN News Radio:
A dispersing male gray wolf originating from the Indigo Pack has been seen frequently around the Cascade Lakes Highway corridor in recent weeks.
From Yahoo.com:
Minnesota hunters have set up bait piles in advance of bear-hunting season, which begins Tuesday, and wolves are capitalizing.
The accompanying trail-cam footage shows a black bear chasing a wolf from a bait pile, and both animals feeding at the pile minutes later.
From St. Louis Public Radio:
Three critically endangered American red wolf pups born at the St. Louis Zoo are now growing up alongside a new wild wolf family in North Carolina — a first for the zoo and a rare opportunity to add genetic diversity to one of the world’s most endangered mammal populations.
From Wild beim Wild:
A reader from Spain contacted IG Wild beim Wild this week.
In Asturias, she wrote, the regional government had decided to kill 67 wolves. She asked for help for these animals. We looked into the case. It is confirmed, and it is more serious than a mere kill figure would suggest.
From Fox 10 Phoenix:
Officials with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently announced the removal of two Mexican gray wolves after the predators killed and injured livestock in the American Southwest. The decision has drawn criticism from conservation advocates who say this type of removal represents a slippery slope.
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