Oregon Confirms New Wolves in Northern Cascade Mountains

From USNews.com and the Associated Press:

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon wildlife officials said Tuesday they have identified a new family of wolves in the northern Cascade Mountains, bringing the total number of known wolf groups in the region to three.

The state Department of Fish and Wildlife confirmed the new family of wolves with two adults and two pups. They were discovered in December on the reservation of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) southeast of Portland.

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Minnesota: New wolf-human encounters near Voyageurs park draw scientists’ concern

From Minnesota Public Radio:

Researchers in far northern Minnesota are concerned about a young wolf south of Voyageurs National Park that’s been seen several times along a roadside, displaying little to no fear of people.

Scientists with the Voyageurs Wolf Project posted photos of the wolf on their Facebook page Tuesday, asking the public to share details about their encounters with the wolf and imploring people to leave it alone.

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Montana: Legislators debate wolf, block management bills

Fromo the Missoula Current in Montana:

With only four months until the start of the Legislative session, people are already developing ideas for the next round of wildlife bills, although some caution against more wolf-killing bills.

Members of the Legislative Environmental Quality Council spent Thursday and Friday getting department updates and reviewing proposals for department bills that would be pre-introduced in the Legislature. Not surprisingly, it was the Fish, Wildlife & Parks update on wolves that sparked some debate.

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Colorado: With mystery around Walden wolves still unsolved, rancher tries a new deterrent: longhorns

From the Coloradoan:

This time last year, North Park rancher Don Gittleson’s gut instinct told him, for the first time in his decades of ranching in Colorado, wolf trouble was brewing.

He and other area ranchers had sporadically seen lone wolves over the previous two years. But in September 2021, he started seeing six wolf pups tag along with their parents, who naturally migrated into the state and produced the first wolf pups born in Colorado in 80 years.

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Can tourism save the Iberian wolf in Portugal?

From SCMP.com:

Francisco Barrigão takes a break from minding his flock of distinctive, black-nosed churra galega bragança sheep, resting on his wooden staff in the mid-November sunshine.

Winter has come late to northeastern Portugal’s Montesinho Natural Park, and the weather is clear and warm. He smiles ruefully and rubs his sun-darkened pate when the conversation turns to wolves.

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Groups Urge Federal Courts to Relist Wolves in Montana and Idaho

From Big Country News:

Several conservation groups argue that because Montana and Idaho are “hellbent” on eradicating wolves, a court should instate equally aggressive measures aimed at restoring federal protection for gray wolves.

In both of the Rocky Mountain states, lawmakers have relaxed rules about wolf hunting. For example, Idaho now allows private contractors to kill wolves, permits year-round trapping on private land, and allows hunters and trappers to kill an unlimited number.

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Native American Tribes Sue to Stop Wisconsin’s Fall Wolf Hunt

From the Daily Beast:

Just weeks after wildlife activist groups sued to halt Wisconsin’s annual fall wolf hunt, six Native American tribes have served the state another suit. The Ojibwe tribes filed against the Department of Natural Resources and Natural Resources Board, arguing that the hunt violates treaty rights that entitle them to half of the wolf quota in territory they were forced to give the U.S. government in the nineteenth century. The DNR estimates Wisconsin’s wolf population hovers around 1,000. About 218 wolves were killed in four days during the annual hunting and trapping season in February—99 above the state quota.

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On Canada’s Remote Kaska Coast, Wolf Spotting Under the Northern Lights

From Conde Nast Traveler:

The wolf was not shy. She came silent and fast from behind, flanking our line of hikers. She circled to the front and stopped. She lifted her nose, narrowed her eyes against the wind, and studied our strange herd. What were we? Not caribou or moose, definitely not lemmings.

“Whoa, what a beauty,” my wife, Kim, murmured. “She must be 90 pounds. And not anxious in the least.”

Emergency alert at Cleveland zoo after wolf escapes enclosure

From The Independent in the UK:

A wolf briefly breached its habitat at an Ohio zoo, sending it into a lockdown, said authorities.

Identified as a female Mexican grey wolf, the canine was able to access a guest path of the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo for five minutes at around 10.20am on Monday, forcing it into a lockdown.

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Yellowstone: There’s an Investigation Into the Killing of Wolf 1233

From sparklight.com:

Hunters killed a record 25 Yellowstone wolves last season, a figure that represents one-fifth of the park’s wolf population and is more than double the previous high of a decade ago.

As a deep dive at the Intercept explains, newly relaxed rules on hunters instituted by Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte is a big reason. But the investigation by Ryan Devereaux focuses on one particular aspect of the count—allegations that some Yellowstone rangers improperly hunted wolves themselves or fed inside information about the animals’ whereabouts to hunters.

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