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Dogs, Unlike Wolves, Are Born to Communicate With People

From wired.com:

MEGAN CALLAHAN-BECKEL HAS been working with gray wolves since she was 4 years old. Now the animal care coordinator at the Wildlife Science Center in Minnesota—where her mother, Peggy Callahan, is the executive director—Callahan-Beckel grew up in a home inhabited by not only dogs but also wolf puppies, who must be intensively hand-reared for them to be comfortable with humans later in life. She now raises wolf puppies in her own home every summer, and they come to adore her and see her as a kind of mom.

Much as she loves the wolves, Callahan-Beckel is well equipped to explain why dogs live in our homes and wolves stick to the great outdoors. “They test you, they get into your face, they are cocky, they’re destructive,” she says. “They’re everything that people shouldn’t want in dogs.”

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Utah asks to join U.S., NRA in gray wolf delisting case

From Reuters:

(Reuters) – The state of Utah has asked a federal court in Oakland for permission to join in a lawsuit in order to oppose conservation groups that are challenging the removal of gray wolves from the list of endangered and threatened species in the lower 48 states.

In a Monday filing, Utah said it wants to join the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Rifle Association in defending the Trump administration’s December decision to de-list the gray wolf. WildEarth Guardians and other groups sued the government to undo the decision in January, alleging violations of the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

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Colorado: Policy groups engage Moffat County on the issue of wolf reintroduction

From The Craig Press in Colorado:

Monday, a group from the Keystone Policy Center and the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission visited Craig to discuss plans for wolf reintroduction. The reintroduction, approved by Colorado voters last November, could happen in the area within the next couple of years.

Residents of the area were invited to visit various stations set up at Moffat County High School to learn more about Proposition 114.

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US agency to review possible protections for Alaska wolf

From the Associated Press:

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced plans Monday to review whether a southeast Alaska wolf population merits Endangered Species Act protections.

The plans are outlined in a document set to be published in the Federal Register on Tuesday. The document states that a petition from conservation groups to protect the Alexander Archipelago wolf included information indicating protections may be warranted due to potential threats associated with logging, illegal and legal trapping and hunting, climate change impacts and loss of genetic diversity.

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Michigan, Oregon AGs say feds improperly delisted gray wolves

From MLive.com:

LANSING, MI — Attorneys general in Michigan and Oregon have filed a joint amicus brief in litigation against the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS), which alleges the federal government improperly removed gray wolf endangered species protection.

In a July 23 filing in U.S. District Court in Northern California, the two attorneys general argue that FWS unlawfully removed gray wolves from the endangered species list in January during the final weeks of the Trump administration.

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‘An abomination’: the story of the massacre that killed 216 wolves in Wisconsin

From The Guardian in the UK:

The woods were full of the sounds of snowmobiles and baying hounds. A group of perhaps a dozen hunters had gathered to give chase to big game along a frozen creek in north-eastern Wisconsin.

Hound hunting, chiefly for black bear and coyote, is a popular pastime in this part of the state. But the houndsman who emerged from the hemlocks onto a snowy road around twilight held a different kind of trophy.

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Colorado voters spoke, but ranchers remain wary of wolf reintroduction

From the Colorado Springs Gazette:

When Colorado voters approved the reintroduction of gray wolves in 2020, livestock owners were promised fair compensation for damages and deaths to their animals caused by wolves.

But if Colorado mirrors the experiences of livestock owners in states like Idaho and Washington, ranchers around the state fear that promise may be hollow.

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Secretary Haaland Declines Comment as Tribal Film Builds Momentum for Wolf Protections to be Reinstated

From NativeNewsOnline.net:

WASHINGTON — “It is abundantly clear that since protections were removed, states have accelerated policies which threaten decades of successful wolf recovery efforts across the country. Please join us in urging Secretary Haaland to revisit the decision to delist Gray Wolves,” closes a letter to fellow lawmakers from Members of Congress Donald Beyer, Jr., Raul Grijalva, and Peter DeFazio.

The Congressmen’s letter reflects many of the positions highlighted in “Family,” the short film produced by the Global Indigenous Council. Directed by Rain (“Say Her Name”/”Somebody’s Daughter“) and narrated by Crystle Lightning (“Trickster”/”Yellowstone”), in its first week of release “Family” generated over 170,000 views across multiple platforms.

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Managing Michigan’s: Wolves Is it time to reinstate a hunt?

From the Mackinac Center for Public Policy:

Few issues can provoke as intense or immediate passion as removing protections for an animal under the Endangered Species Act — also known as delisting — or the conservation of charismatic megafauna — large, easily recognizable plant or animal species. The decision to delist Michigan’s gray wolf population, and to transfer their management back into the hands of the states, hits both of those sensitive areas.

Wolves are native to Michigan, and they were once found throughout the state. But aggressive predator control programs in the 19th and 20th centuries, including a state-paid bounty, caused them to nearly die out. To stave off extirpation, or their total loss in Michigan, wolves were placed under full state protections, and they also were listed under the federal Endangered Species Act in 1973.

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