From SmithsonianMag.com:
Gray wolves know that the best way to survive in this world is together. They live in pack families, relying on each other to hunt hoofed mammals many times their size. A single wolf doesn’t want to be alone for long.
“So much of how the wolf appears rhetorically in America is in this ‘lone wolf,’” says writer Erica Berry, author of the 2023 book Wolfish: Wolf, Self and the Stories We Tell About Fear. “It’s like the wolf howling alone at the top of the mountain.”
From The Billings Gazette:
After arriving in Yellowstone in 2019, a fresh-from-college Taylor Rabe was quite literally thrown to the wolves. “Having just finished up my zoology degree at Ohio State, I was actually more excited to get the chance to study the ungulates in the park,” she wrote in an email.
Yet her first job was working as a naturalist for the Yellowstone Wolf Tracker guide service.
From WorldAtlas.com:
Wolves have returned to seven North American national parks or national park reserves, but not through one shared recovery story. Yellowstone received 41 relocated wolves between 1995 and 1997.
Grand Teton, Glacier, Banff, and Pacific Rim were recolonized by animals moving through connected wilderness. Isle Royale required an emergency population rescue after inbreeding reduced its wolves to only two.
From TheTyee.ca:
Each winter for the past decade, sharpshooters hired by the B.C. government have killed hundreds of wolves from helicopters in a last-ditch attempt to save struggling caribou herds.
This year, the B.C. government spent $1.55 million to shoot 301 wolves that posed a threat to boreal and mountain caribou herds, according to unpublished information The Tyee obtained from the B.C. Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship.
From EnvironmentAmerica.org:
Since the 1940’s, U.S. Highway 64 has served as the gateway to North Carolina’s Outer Banks, carrying residents, visitors, families, and vacationers across the state’s coastal plain.
The highway passes through the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, home to black bears, white-tailed deer, river otters, bobcats, and includes habitat for the world’s only wild population of red wolves.
From Times of India:
A wolf pack is often imagined as a tightly organised hunting group moving across forests or open tundra. Yet much of its daily life revolves around something far less dramatic: looking after its youngest members. Newborn pups cannot travel with the adults for weeks, leaving them dependent on those that remain near the den while others search for food.
From Newsbreak.com:
In the sprawling landscapes of Yellowstone National Park, a technological revolution is quietly unfolding. Amid the geysers, forests, and meadows, artificial intelligence has become an unlikely ally in wildlife conservation.
The park’s implementation of AI-powered monitoring systems represents a groundbreaking shift in how we track, understand, and protect wild animal populations.
Click here for the full story.
From InsideClimateNews.org:
A small nonprofit with an innovative approach to predator-livestock conflicts is trying to ease Colorado ranchers’ concerns about wolves.
From BrownfieldAgNews:
Farmers across the Upper Midwest are encouraging U.S. senators to pass legislation this week that would bring management of grey wolves back to states. Wisconsin Farm Bureau’s Tyler Wenzlaff tells Brownfield, “We’re inches from the finish line here, and it’s something that we’ve been working on for nearly three decades.”
From Washington State University:
Washington State University’s resident feline scientist, Dr. Universe, answers a wild question from Florian of Austria: Could humans have domesticated bears instead of wolves?
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