Oregon: Two more wolf kills near Fort Klamath

From the Herald and News in Klamath Falls, Oregon:

Two more cattle kills by the Rogue Wolf Pack in the Fort Klamath area last week have been confirmed by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.

According to a report issued Tuesday, July 26, the most recent incident occurred Saturday, July 23. That morning a livestock producer found a dead, approximately 825-pound yearling steer in a large private-land grass pasture. Portions of the hindquarters and intestines had been consumed with the remaining tissues intact. It is estimated the steer died approximately 36 to 48 hours before the investigation.

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New York: DNA test identifies wolf in Greater Capital Region

From News10.com in New York:

ALBANY, N.Y. (WTEN) — A DNA test has confirmed that an animal shot in the Greater Capital Region last December was a gray wolf. While data has shown that some coyotes in the northeast are part-wolf, the DNA of the 85-pound animal killed in Central New York was 99% wolf—a mixture of Great Lakes, Northwest Territories, and eastern gray wolf, according to the results of a DNA test released Tuesday.

Joseph Butera, a member of the Northeast Ecological Recovery Society, a not-for-profit that advocates for the restoration of native species in the Northeast, coordinated the DNA test after he saw the wolf on a hunter’s Facebook page. The hunter agreed to supply a tissue sample, which was tested by a lab at Trent University in Ohio.

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Family Of Wolves Spotted Near Deschutes And Klamath County Line – Oregon

From ThatOregonLife.com:

After federal protection for gray wolves in Western Oregon was restored earlier this year, wildlife biologists are interested to see groups of wolves like the ones caught on this photo by trail camera roaming in Western Oregon.

In July of 2022, near the Klamath and Deschutes county line, a trail camera captured a cute family photo of an adult wolf and five adorable wolf pups.

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Colorado: Work groups outline funding for wolf reintroduction on the Western Slope

From the Summit Daily in Colorado:

State leaders gathered Friday, July 22, to discuss the next steps of relocating wolves back to Colorado, and this time, funding and management were on the table.

Keystone Policy Center has been facilitating the process as a third-party, collaborating with a stakeholder advisory group and a technical working group. Julie Shapiro, natural resources center director for Keystone Policy Center, said that the stakeholder group had come to a consensus on three potential funding sources for the reintroduction.

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Adult wolf, 5 pups spotted together on Oregon trail camera

From Central Oregon Daily News:

A wildlife trail camera in the Upper Deschutes wildlife management area caught an image of a wolf and five wolf pups roaming earlier this month. That’s part of the reason the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) is now designating a new Area of Known Wolf Activity (AKWA) for that area in Klamath and Deschutes counties.

The image of the wolf family was captured July 4. ODFW said the discovery confirmed suspicious that a new group of wolves had taken up residency.

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Wolf attacks benefit far-right politicians, study finds

From the Minnesota Reformer:

Wolf attacks on livestock boost the electoral fortunes of candidates of far-right political parties, according to a new study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The study analyzed data from Germany, where wolves have been reintroduced in recent decades following their eradication in the 20th century. Wolf attacks on livestock, which were virtually unheard of prior to 2000, now occur hundreds of times per year.

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Wildlife advocates say voter intent being ‘lost or undermined’ in wolf reintroduction process

From The Durango Herald:

A group of wildlife advocates is blasting Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s wolf reintroduction process, saying the intent of the voter-approved proposition has been “lost or undermined.”

Since voters in November 2020 approved Proposition 114 directing the state to craft a plan and reintroduce wolves on the Western Slope by the end of 2023, CPW has hosted a series of statewide meetings and organized two groups to create a management plan.

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Group loses court battle to end aerial shooting in BC’s “war on wolves”

From DH News:

“The war on wolves continues.”

That’s what the conservation group Pacific Wild says after the Supreme Court of British Columbia denied its application to end the wolf cull.

The BC government began the cull in 2015 to save endangered woodland caribou, and has seen at least 1,400 wolves killed through the aerial wolf reduction program since then, according to FOI documents obtained by Pacific Wild.

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Conservation groups offer alternate plan for Colorado wolf reintroduction that limits killing after livestock losses

From the Colorado Sun:

A group of wildlife advocates is blasting Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s wolf reintroduction process, saying the intent of the voter-approved proposition has been “lost or undermined.”

Since voters in November 2020 approved Proposition 114 directing the state to craft a plan and reintroduce wolves on the Western Slope by the end of 2023, CPW has hosted a series of statewide meetings and organized two groups to create a management plan.

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Scientists Find That Wolves’ And Dogs’ Sleep States Don’t Quite Match Up

From Science Alert:

Studying the sleep patterns of wolves in comparison to dogs can give us an insight into how evolution and domestication may have affected sleep – and that’s exactly the point of a new study.

The study involved seven hand-raised, socialized wolves, which meant that they could be calmly and safely coaxed into natural sleep by their handlers without any risk of agitating or harming the animals.

Researchers then used non-invasive electrode measurements via an electroencephalogram, or EEG, to track brain activity as each wolf snoozed.

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