From Idaho Capital Sun:
Wildlife conservation groups on Nov. 29 filed a legal petition asking the U.S. Forest Service to prohibit aerial gunning of wildlife in national forests in Idaho.
The petition was filed by International Wildlife Coexistence Network, the Center for Biological Diversity and Western Watersheds Project.
From Smithsonian Magazine:
Colorado is set to start reintroducing gray wolves within the coming weeks. Voters passed a ballot initiative in 2020 that requires the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission (CPW) to begin reintroduction efforts by the end of this year.
Over the course of this month, officials will capture, transport and release up to ten wolves from Oregon, according to USA Today’s Trevor Hughes, a process that can start as soon as December 8. CPW plans to eventually introduce 30 to 50 wolves in total.
From CBC News:
Wolf sightings have been “persistent” around Yellowknife, Ndilǫ and Dettah recently — and a chief with the Yellowknives Dene First Nation says it’s because they’ve lost habitat in this year’s wildfires.
Fred Sangris, the chief of Ndilǫ, said fires burned a lot of land in the region and drove away the wolves’ prey. “The only food the small mammals can depend on, including the fox, is right here at the city dump and people’s garbage,” he said.
According to N.W.T. Fire, more than 4.1 million hectares of land burned across the N.W.T. this year, topping the previous record set in 2014. About a quarter of the land that burned was in the North Slave region.
From Wisconsin Ag Connection:
Two GOP bills that would require the state to set a specific numerical wolf population goal in future grey wolf management plans are pitting agriculture and pro-hunting interests against some conservation and animal welfare groups.
Agriculture and hunting and wildlife interests that support Assembly Bill 137 and Senate Bill 139 want the Department of Natural Resources to continue a 1999 plan that set a state wolf population goal of 350 animals.
From
A $5,000 reward is being offered for information about a gray wolf that was illegally killed in Southern Oregon.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is offering the bounty for information leading to arrests related to the death of the federally protected wolf.
On Nov. 13 the collared male wolf, identified as OR 125, was found dead near Union Creek, east of Crater Lake. Gray wolves are listed as endangered in the western two-thirds of Oregon.
From Herald and News:
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the person or persons related to the death of a federally protected gray wolf near Union Creek, a small community in Jackson County that is 23 miles west of Crater Lake National Park.
According to a news release, on Nov. 13 a radio collared male gray wolf known as OR125 was found dead near Union Creek. OR125 was a member of the Rogue Pack, which has been found in the Union Creek and Prospect areas of Jackson County and near Fort Klamath in Klamath County since 2014.
From Field & Stream:
A federal judge has cut wolf trapping season in half in most of Montana. The decision comes after multiple animal advocacy groups filed a lawsuit claiming that federally-protected grizzly bears are being unintentionally snared in the western part of the Big Sky State.
According to Montana Public Radio four cases of grizzlies with missing toes and legs were documented by state biologists in 2021. By shrinking the wolf trapping season from nearly four months to less than two months, the ruling aims to mitigate unintentional harm to grizzly bears, the outlet reports.
From Star Tribune:
In a revolt against what it says is an overabundance of wolves in the North Woods, a group of deer hunters concerned about the scarcity of whitetails has formed a new hunters rights group eager to rock the boat on the politics of wolf management.
Still in its infancy, Hunters For Hunters will rally next week to build its membership with open-invitation meetings in International Falls, Carlton, Aurora and Coleraine. Subsequent meetings are scheduled in Bagley and Detroit Lakes. The group’s recent “wolf control” meeting in Squaw Lake — announced only eight days in advance — drew a crowd estimated at more than 200 people, including three state senators.
From Out There Colorado:
As Colorado’s media continues to track the ongoing topic of wolf reintroduction, a recent report from Colorado Sun’s Tracy Ross provides valuable insight on the subject.
Ross reports that Colorado Parks and Wildlife will start the process of collecting wolves in Oregon on December 8, with the current plan being to release these wolves in mid-to-late December in the counties of Grand, Summit, and Eagle (Find Ross’ full report here)
From Colorado Politics:
ALBUQUERQUE — It’s been a long journey for one lone Mexican gray wolf — from the forests of southeastern Arizona, across the dusty high desert of central New Mexico to the edge of what is known as the Yellowstone of the Southwest.
Having reached Valles Caldera National Preserve in northern New Mexico, she has wandered far beyond the boundaries established along the Arizona-New Mexico border for managing the rarest subspecies of gray wolf in North America. The recovery area — spanning tens of thousands of square miles — is home to more than 240 of the endangered predators.
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