From The Wenatchee World in Wenatchee, Washington:
SPOKANE — The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife will attempt to kill up to two wolves in the Togo pack area following repeated attacks on cattle.
WDFW Director Kelly Susewind authorized the killing of one to two wolves on Monday. The killings are “not expected to harm the wolf population’s ability to reach the statewide or local recovery objective,” according to an agency news release.
From The Asahi Shimbun:
The Japanese wolf, last seen in 1905, was a cross between a giant variant and an unknown variant, scientists said in a theory that differs from two existing hypotheses on the mysterious creature.
The team of researchers from the University of Yamanashi, the National Museum of Nature and Science and other institutions said their conclusion is based on ancient DNA studies and could settle the long-lasting controversy over the wolf.
From Inverse.com:
MAYBE IT WAS THE HEAT THAT AFTERNOON IN MADISON, or maybe it was sheer exhaustion as the meeting approached its sixth hour. Either way, tempers were flaring.
The Wisconsin Natural Resources Board, a politically appointed body that advises the state’s natural resources agency, met on Aug. 11, 2021, to debate a seemingly narrow question: How many wolves should hunters be allowed to kill during the upcoming hunting season?
From The Third Pole:
On a fine morning in April 2022, Mount Everest can be seen clearly from the Sagarmatha (Everest) National Park office in Namche, northeastern Nepal, the snow from its peak evaporating to form a thin layer of cloud. Bishnu Rokaya, the park’s assistant conservation officer, has little time for the beauty on display as he flips through the pages of their latest annual report. He points to a passage stating that, “from mid-2020 to mid-2021, over three hundred livestock [animals] were killed by wild animals in the park and its buffer zone areas, for which we have paid the communities a sum of over 9 million rupees [USD 85,000 USD] as compensation for their losses.”
From Scientific American:
The wolf relatives of modern-day dogs began the evolutionary process of becoming humans’ best friends more than 10,000 years ago. But despite more than a century of research, scientists still do not know the full story of how and why dog domestication occurred in the first place. Now a new study published on Thursday in Scientific Reports reveals genetic changes that may have allowed ancient dogs to feel comfortable around humans by lowering the stress levels the animals experienced in our presence.
From The Goldendale Sentinel in Washington:
Four wolves were found dead in Stevens County this winter in northeast Washington, but officials with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife are saying very little about the incident.
The wolves were discovered by two Stevens County Sheriff’s deputies on February 18 while they were patrolling the area of Churchill Mine Road a few miles south of the Canada border on snowmobiles. The deputies examined and photographed the animals and noted seeing no blood or bullet holes. They reported their findings to WDFW that day.
From the Juneau Empire:
A video shared on a Juneau-oriented social media site showed what appeared to be a wolf trotting down the road near Mendenhall River Community School. That’s not necessarily a cause for concern or even surprise, said an Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologist.
“It is common to have wolves on the outskirts of Juneau,” said ADF&G area biologist Roy Churchwell in an email. “Not unheard of, but it is less common to have one that folks can see readily in the daylight walking paved roads.”
From phys.org:
Can wolf personalities change ecosystems? According to the latest research from the Voyageurs Wolf Project, published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, they can.
Previous work by the Voyageurs Wolf Project demonstrates that wolves can alter the creation of wetlands by killing beavers.
From Undark.org:
Maybe it was the heat that afternoon in Madison, or maybe it was sheer exhaustion as the meeting approached its sixth hour. Either way, tempers were flaring.
The Wisconsin Natural Resources Board, a politically appointed body that advises the state’s natural resources agency, met on Aug. 11, 2021, to debate a seemingly narrow question: How many wolves should hunters be allowed to kill during the upcoming hunting season?
From the Idaho Capital Sun:
Timberline High School student Annie Birch Wright felt a connection to her school’s mascot because it wasn’t just another generic animal.
The mascot is the wolf, which led to a real pack of wolves living in the nearby Boise National Forest being named for, symbolically adopted by and studied at the high school.
The International Wolf Center advances the survival of wolf populations by teaching about wolves, their relationship to wildlands and the human role in their future.