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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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From Wild beim Wild:

A new comparative evaluation in the journal Conservation Science and Practice calls into question the assumption that removing wolves reliably protects livestock.

The team of authors led by Adrian Treves compared five field studies from Slovenia, Michigan, Slovakia, Latvia and the Golan Heights. Each of them pursued the same question: does killing wolves reduce subsequent losses of livestock?

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From Active NorCal:

County supervisors approved an agreement with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife giving Tehama County access to the confidential GPS collar locations used to track gray wolves, KRCR reported. The county will use the information for livestock protection, depredation response and wolf conservation work.

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From The Parliament Magazine:

Europe brought native wolves back from near-extinction. Now governments, farmers and ecologists are locked in battle about how to coexist — or not — with the continent’s oldest villain.

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From The Aspen Times:

Colorado Parks and Wildlife has reached an agreement with the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe over the restoration and management of gray wolves on tribal lands in the state.

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