From Cowboy State Daily:
The eyes of the world have been on Wyoming since a wolf was tortured and killed in Daniel, but if reform is to come from the incident, it should be Wyoming’s business, not the world’s, an avid hunter from Dubois said.
“I think that here in Wyoming, we recognize that we have our own solutions to our problems. We don’t need outside organizations pressuring the federal government to come in and change things for us,” Jim Laybourn told Cowboy State Daily.
From Vail Daily:
Born and raised on a Cherokee reservation in North Carolina, Grey Bear owned Sleeping Giant Ranch in Routt County from 2002 to 2017 and now owns a hunting and fishing lodge in the British Columbia, Canada.
The Canadian province, larger than the countries of France and Germany combined, is a place where wildlife officials estimate there to be a population of roughly 8,500 grey wolves.
Over the phone Thursday, Grey Bear said the wolves have taken on average 1.5 horses per year from his property in north-central British Columbia and, on occasions where he has caught wolves in the act, he has killed the predators.
From Quetico Superior Wilderness News:
The current population in Minnesota stands relatively stable at around 2,900 wolves. Prime habitat lies within the Quetico Superior region, where they prefer forests and inland wetlands. If the bill passes into law, it means that management would shift from federal to state governance. While the Biden administration has expressed opposition, opinions are different at local levels.
“Delisting a species is not just a numbers game,” Jill Fritz, Senior Director of Wildlife Protection with the U.S. Humane Society told WDIO. “In December, we checked in with the Minnesota DNR, the Minnesota Deer Hunters Association, and the Voyageurs Wolf Project to see if the Timber wolf is to blame for the deer decline in Northern Minnesota.”
From Sky-Hi News:
Colorado Parks and Wildlife has confirmed that one yearling heifer was killed by a wolf or wolves in Grand County. CPW confirmed this most recent depredation on Saturday.
CPW posted the incident on its Wolf Depredation Report webpage on its website on Sunday. CPW defines any depredation as physical trauma resulting in injury or death.
According to local sources, this most recent depredation occurred on the same property where five other cattle have been killed. This marks the seventh event in Colorado since wolves were released, involving nine cattle.
From Nevada Current:
Wildlife managers in Nevada confirmed Monday that a possible wolf pack sighting north of Elko months earlier was, in fact, a pack of coyotes.
The Nevada Department of Wildlife reported the possible wolf pack sighting in March, prompting state biologists to collect DNA from two scats and hair samples nearby to confirm whether or not the pack sighted were indeed wolves.
From KUOW:
An endangered American red wolf born and raised in a Washington state sanctuary and released into the wild earlier this year in North Carolina has fathered a litter of eight pups, doubling the size of his adopted pack.
The wolf, known as M2191, but nicknamed “Finch” among the staff at Wolf Haven International, is only the second red wolf released into the wild by the wolf sanctuary and education center located on 80 acres south of Olympia, Washington.
American red wolves remain one of the most endangered species in North America. The North Carolina population, which includes around 20 wolves, is the world’s only wild population.
From Boise State Public Radio:
The number of wolves killed in Idaho this past year is down. Katie Oelrich with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game told members of the Wolf Depredation Control Board Thursday that 389 wolves have been killed in the state since last July.
“This includes hunting, trapping, Wildlife Services removals, roadkill and all the other things that we get brought into us or we’re notified of,” she said.
The total number of wolves killed is about 10% lower than last year and 20% lower than the past three years.
From Tri-County News:
New research from the University of Minnesota’s Voyageurs Wolf Project found that human activities in northern Minnesota –
logging, road and trail creation, and infrastructure development – have profoundly impacted where wolves hunt and kill deer fawns. By altering forest ecosystems, humans have created an environment that possibly favors the predators.
This research, recently published in Ecological Applications, is a collaboration between the University of Minnesota, Northern Michigan University, the University of Manitoba, Voyageurs National Park, and the Voyageurs Wolf Project. The Voyageurs Wolf Project is funded, in part, by the Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund as recommended by the Legislative–Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR).
Outdoor News:
A lawsuit filed by animal welfare advocates seeking to invalidate Wisconsin’s new wolf management plan was dismissed by a judge on Monday.
Dane County Circuit Judge Stephen Ehlke threw out the case that accused Wisconsin wildlife officials of violating the state’s open meetings law and disregarding comments from wolf researchers and supporters, reflecting how contentious the debate over wolf management has become in the state.
From WisPolitics:
Madison, WI – The Great Lakes Wildlife Alliance and Friends of the Wisconsin Wolf are strongly opposing the dismissal of the lawsuit against the state of Wisconsin, the Natural Resources Board, and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. According to them, this decision is dangerous and sets a bad precedent, which puts the well-being and constitutional rights of Wisconsinites at risk. It also threatens the credibility of scientists and their research at the University, if their work conflicts with the interests of extractive special interests.
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