From MPR News:
A new exhibit at the International Wolf Center in Ely explores how wolves survive during the summer months, a tougher time to bring down their usual prey.
Titled “Starvation, Adaptation and Survival — Insights from the Voyageurs Wolf Project,” the exhibit showcases research from the University of Minnesota.
In summer, researchers say wolves must expend extra effort to feed themselves and their pups.
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From The Observer:
ENTERPRISE — A small gathering of ranchers, police and representatives of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife resulted in increased understanding of Northeast Oregon’s problem of wolf-livestock conflicts Tuesday, May 21.
About a half-dozen ranchers and the same number of ODFW officials, along with Wallowa County Sheriff Ryan Moody and Sheriff’s Sgt. Paul Pagano, gathered at the food booth of the Wallowa County Fairgrounds to learn more about what the state is doing to manage wolves particularly in Wallowa County, where the bulk of wolf attacks on livestock appear to occur.
From Wyoming Public Media:
On Sunday morning the sleepy town of Daniel, Wyoming, population 108, was anything but. The single lane highway through town was lined bumper to bumper with trucks, livestock trailers, semis and hundreds of people.
This was the local response to a weeks-long publicized arrival of a motorcycle brigade of wolf advocates. ‘Hogs for Hope’, which originated in Texas, promised to raise money to bring change to Wyoming’s wolf laws, which they say are insufficient. That’s because earlier this year, Cody Roberts, of Daniel, captured and brought a live, muzzled and allegedly injured wolf into a local bar, later killing it. He was fined $250 by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department for possessing the live animal.
From Fox News 31:
DENVER (KDVR) — A calf was killed in Jackson County on May 25, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife, and a wolf is to blame.
Further details from CPW were not available on Monday, but Steamboat Radio reported that a rancher suspects a wolf got one of his calves. CPW is working to determine if the calf’s death was due to a reintroduced wolf, or a wolf that has migrated to the state naturally.
From Phys.org:
The estimated number of wolves in France last year was 1,003, down nine percent from the year before, environmental associations said Thursday, urging the French government to lower its quota for the number of the animals which can be killed each year.
The drop in the predator’s population is the first in almost ten years, according to loupfrance.fr, a site managed by France’s biodiversity authority.
From Asahi Shimbun:
TSUKUBA, Ibaraki Prefecture–Hinako Komori quickly recognized that a stuffed specimen at a museum storehouse was likely a long-extinct Japanese wolf. But the elementary school girl faced difficulty trying to convince adults of her theory.
It took Komori, now a 13-year-old second-year junior high school student in Tokyo, more than three years to get the science world to confirm the animal was indeed the sixth known specimen of the long-lost wolf.
From Wyoming Public Radio:
Wyoming lawmakers are considering possible changes to state laws about predator species management.
This comes after global outrage over a Sublette County man captured a live wolf, brought it into a home and bar, and later killed the animal.
Members of the Joint Interim Travel, Recreation, Wildlife & Cultural Resources Committee recently discussed if there should be stricter laws around the treatment of predatory animals. They agreed to form a subcommittee to consider possible changes that could be introduced during next year’s legislative session.
From Oscoda Press:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Trust the Science Act, a bill that Representative Jack Bergman cosponsored, recently passed the House of Representatives. The legislation will permanently delist the gray wolf in the lower 48 states, return control of wolf conservation to the individual states, and ensure this decision is not subject to judicial review.
“The gray wolf population has successfully recovered, and it’s time to trust the years of scientific evidence which show that wolf management can be best left to folks in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan,” said Bergman. “States are better equipped to manage our gray wolf populations than the federal government, and I’m proud to have cosponsored this important legislation.”
From The Wildlife Society:
TWS President Bob Lanka testified in front of a Wyoming legislative committee asking lawmakers to address statutes that allow residents to kill or harass wolves from snowmobiles and other motorized vehicles in most of the state.
“The Wildlife Society suggests the legislature consider a very narrow, craft revision to statutory language so that it expressly forbids purposely running down and running over predatory animals with automotive vehicles, motorized wheeled or over-snow vehicles,” Lanka testified, according to the Jackson Hole News & Guide. “The word ‘purposely’ is important here, as it is not our intent to make a highway accident a criminal offense.”
From Fox News 9:
INTERNATIONAL FALLS, Minn. (FOX 9) – The Voyageurs Wolf Project shared “amazing” video of a wolf hunting fish recently in northern Minnesota.
The breeding female wolf of the Windsong Pack was captured on trail cameras fishing over the past few days in the Voyageurs National Park area of Minnesota, with the organization noting all the wolf has done the past few weeks is “fish and spend time with her pups, who are starting their young lives as pescatarians, it seems.”
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