From The Gazette:
Another wolf sighting has been captured on camera in Colorado, about a month and a half after the species was formally reintroduced to the state.
An article from 9News reports that the wolf was spotted last Thursday near Kremmling, with a rancher capturing footage from the road.
From Capital Press:
OLYMPIA — A House committee unanimously endorsed a bill intended to increase the Colville tribe’s influence over how wolves are managed on 1.5 million acres north of the tribe’s reservation in northeast Washington.
Northern Ferry County and parts of northern Okanogan and Stevens counties fall within the region. It was the northern half of the Colville reservation until ceded to the U.S. government in 1892.
From Powell Tribune:
After a peer-reviewed assessment, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Friday announced two petitions to re-list gray wolves under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in the Northern Rocky Mountains and the Western United States were “not warranted.”
The legal status of gray wolves does not change as a result of this finding, the Service said in the public announcement.
From K2 Radio:
U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials have announced that it will not restore protections for gray wolves across portions of six states and allow hunting to continue in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho.
This after environmental groups petitioned to return wolves in the Rocky Mountains to the federal endangered species list.
From NPR:
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From US Fish and Wildlife Service:
WASHINGTON — Recognizing that the national discussion around gray wolf management must look more comprehensively at conservation tools available to federal, state and Tribal governments, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced a path to support a long term and durable approach to the conservation of gray wolves, to include a process to develop – for the first time – a National Recovery Plan under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) for gray wolves in the lower 48 states. Today’s announcement does not make any changes to the legal status of gray wolves in the United States.
After an extensive peer-reviewed assessment using the best available science, the Service today announced a not warranted finding for two petitions to list gray wolves under the ESA in the Northern Rocky Mountains and the Western United States. This finding is not action-forcing; the legal status of gray wolves does not change as a result of this finding.
From Greenwire:
The Fish and Wildlife Service said Friday that it found no need to change the Endangered Species Act protections for certain populations of the gray wolf but instead pledged to develop a first-of-its-kind comprehensive plan to recover the species.
In a highly anticipated and politically fraught decision, the federal agency announced the northern Rocky Mountain population that spans several states will stay off the ESA list of protected species. A larger decision on wolves in other states could now occur by a Feb. 16 court date.
From Western Slope Now:
Federal wildlife officials on Friday rejected requests from conservation groups to restore protections for gray wolves across the northern U.S Rocky Mountains, saying the predators are in no danger of extinction as some states seek to reduce their numbers through hunting.
The U.S Fish and Wildlife Service also said it would work on a first-ever national recovery plan for wolves, after previously pursuing a piecemeal recovery in different regions of the country. The agency expects to complete work on the plan by December 2025.
From Colorado News Online:
Utah lawmakers are once again considering funding efforts to scale back the protections granted to wolves under the Federal Endangered Species Act, with the group Hunter Nation requesting an additional $500,000 during an appropriations committee Thursday.
From Phys.org:
A stretch of unusually warm weather has forced federal officials to suspend researchers’ annual wolf-moose count in Isle Royale National Park for the first time in more than six decades.
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