Hunters kill 20 Yellowstone wolves that roamed out of park

From the Associated Press:

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Twenty of Yellowstone National Park’s renowned gray wolves roamed from the park and were shot by hunters in recent months — the most killed by hunting in a single season since the predators were reintroduced to the region more than 25 years ago, according to park officials.

Fifteen wolves were shot after roaming across the park’s northern border into Montana, according to figures released to The Associated Press. Five more died in Idaho and Wyoming.

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Michigan: Wolf management plan feedback due by Jan. 31

From DailyPress.net:

LANSING — The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is updating the state’s wolf management plan and is seeking public comment, via online survey through Jan. 31, about the future of wolf management.

The current plan, created in 2008 and updated in 2015, was developed using extensive public input to identify important issues and assess public attitudes toward wolves and their management and by reviewing the biological and social science relevant to wolf management.

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Is it a wolf, or a wolf-dog hybrid? Wildlife officials investigating after dead canine found in Utah

From Deseret News:

Utah hunters found what could be the first wolf discovered in the state in years Tuesday, although officials from the Division of Wildlife Resources say the animal, found dead on the side of the road in Duchesne County, is likely a hybrid.

Stephen Gray had wrapped up a successful day duck hunting with family and friends near Duchesne in northeastern Utah, and stopped at a gas station along U.S. Route 40 before heading home. As they pulled onto the highway, one of his friends noticed a large black object on the side of the road.

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An endangered wolf spent days searching for a mate. The border wall blocked him.

From NBCNews.com:

One chilly early morning in November, a wolf roamed southwest of Las Cruces, New Mexico, on the southern border of the U.S. He was probably driven by the call for survival and wanted to mate, researchers say.

In his search for a mate or for better opportunities, the wolf tried to cross the dangerous Chihuahuan Desert, a region he knows very well because it has been his species’ habitat since time immemorial.

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The wolves are coming. Can Coloradans meet them on common ground?

From the Colorado Sun:

The wolves aren’t waiting.

It’s been a year since mostly urban Colorado voters narrowly approved Proposition 114, a plan to reintroduce wolves to the Western Slope’s public lands — a plan with a deadline that’s still two years away.

But on Dec. 19, Don Gittleson, a rancher in North Park near the Wyoming border, lost a heifer to a wolf — the first confirmed wolf killing of livestock in Colorado in more than 70 years.

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Wildly rare video shows Yellowstone bear join in wolf hunt — and steal food in ‘kleptoparasitic’ drama

From The Hill:

A grizzly bear went on an unusual adventure in Yellowstone National Park that resulted in stealing and then eating a wolf pack’s prey.

The National Parks Service (NPS) posted a video to Facebook that showed a grizzly bear following a Junction Butte wolf pack that was hunting elk back in late October 2021. The grizzly bear followed the pack of wolves closely, and just as the wolves took down an elk, the bear jumped in to steal the carcass.

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Critics have taken fight over Idaho wolf laws to courts. How many lawsuits are there?

From the Union-Bulletin:

BOISE — Months after Idaho lawmakers enacted a controversial law expanding wolf hunting and trapping, pushback from critics has continued, with a cadre of opponents again taking their complaints to the court system.

Groups including the Humane Society of the United States, Earthjustice and Idaho-based International Wildlife Coexistence Network have threatened legal action over this spring’s wolf legislation for months.

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Spain: Cantabria government authorizes wolf cull

From Spanish News Today:

The shooting of 34 wolves is permitted in Cantabria after attacks cause the loss of over 1,000 head of livestock

The regional government of Cantabria in the north of Spain has passed a resolution to allow the culling by hunters of 34 wolves in the mountains in the north-west of the region, upsetting conservationists but pleasing cattle farmers as the eternal debate between the two points of view continues.

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Oregon: Baker County rancher allowed to kill up to four wolves from Lookout Mountain Pack

From the East Oregonian:

BAKER CITY — The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife issued a permit Thursday, July 29, allowing a Baker County ranching couple, or their designated agents, to kill up to four wolves from the Lookout Mountain Pack.

The pack, which consists of an estimated nine wolves, has attacked cattle four times in the past two weeks, killing two and injuring two others and has been determined to be chronically depredating and presents a significant risk to livestock present in the area, according to an ODFW press release.

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For Utah, the war on wolf protections seems to never end

From The Salt Lake Tribune:

Utah is again lawyering up to fight federal protection of wolves, which are not currently known to inhabit the Beehive State.

On Monday, state officials filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit brought by environmental groups that are trying to reverse a decision by the Donald Trump administration delisting the gray wolf under the Endangered Species Act.

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