From CowboyStateDaily.com:
A Laramie County rancher shot a roughly 2-year-old male wolf near Carpenter, Wyoming, where wolves are almost never seen. It may be the first recorded legal wolf killing in the county, and its origin remains unclear.
From KVOA.com:
SILVER CITY, N.M. (KVOA) – The population of endangered Mexican gray wolves in the Southwest increased by 33 in 2025, reaching a total of 319, according to a joint announcement by Arizona and New Mexico wildlife agencies.
From BigCountryNews.com:
COEUR D’ALENE—Idaho Fish and Game completed targeted wolf management actions on Feb. 21 and 22 that removed three wolves from Unit 4 in the Panhandle elk zone. This marks the first time such actions have been implemented in Idaho’s Panhandle Region. The effort, when combined with the recent success of local trappers, substantially reduced the size of a single wolf pack in a key part of the unit.
From Wyofile.com:
A Sublette County man who captured and brought an injured wolf into a bar in February 2024, where he posed for photographs that later drew global outrage, has struck a deal with prosecutors that could keep him out of prison.
A signed plea agreement filed with the Sublette County District Court and obtained by WyoFile on Wednesday afternoon means that Roberts, 44, would likely no longer face trial. It had been set to begin March 9.
From HanfordSentinel.com:
DENVER — Two wolves roamed separately into the southern end of Colorado’s Front Range mountains in February, passing through watersheds west of Pueblo and Colorado Springs, a map released Wednesday by Colorado Parks and Wildlife shows.
From Coloradoan.com:
More than $700,000 in wolf depredation claims by ranchers in 2025 have been recommended for approval by Colorado Parks and Wildlife, doubling the amount budgeted by the state.‘
From SwissInfo.ch:
A wolf swam 1.5 kilometres across lake Lucerne, becoming the first such animal to be documented displaying this behaviour in Switzerland.
From CowboyStateDaily.com:
It’s commonly argued that wolves are worth millions to the economies of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, because they’re such tourist magnets.
However, others think that wolves ultimately drain more from the states’ economies than they bring in, because of losses to big game herds and livestock industry, as well as the massive legal fees that states incur fighting lawsuits from wolf advocate groups.
From USU.edu:
State officials recently killed three gray wolves near Avon, Utah, in the southwestern corner of Cache County. Wildlife ecology experts from the Department of Wildland Resources at Utah State University answered questions about wolves in Utah.
From AZMirror.com:
Republican bills that would allow the endangered Mexican gray wolf to be killed and no longer be considered an endangered species won approval Tuesday in the Arizona House of Representatives.
Cattle ranchers have long sought to end protections for the Mexican gray wolf, whose most recent population estimate was 286, and they have been actively lobbying the Trump administration to delist the animal from the Endangered Species Act.
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