From the Missoula Current:
(Daily Montanan) A handful of groups is threatening legal action against the state if it does not revise recently passed legislation that makes it easier to hunt gray wolves in the state, saying the new laws would violate the Endangered Species Act by leading to the accidental taking of federally protected species.
From The Tyee in Canada:
The British Columbia government could reduce or end its controversial wolf cull and instead make small habitat changes to give mountain caribou herds a chance to recover, according to new research.
But the province — which last winter shot or trapped 237 wolves in areas where caribou are under pressure — says that large-scale habitat restoration is complex, expensive and may take decades before it makes a difference.
From DW.com in Germany:
German Agriculture Minister Julia Klöckner is calling for the “regional management” of wolf populations in German federal states where the number of wolves is stable and attacks on livestock are increasing.
Klöckner told the regional daily Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung Monday that nearly 3,000 farm animals were killed or injured by wolves in 2019.
From Public News Service:
EAST LAKE, N.C. – There are plenty of deer, wild turkey and other game species in eastern North Carolina’s red wolf recovery area, according to new research.
Wildlife scientists say while red wolves coexist with other game species, there’s more work to do to build up their population so they have a better chance of survival.
From DutchNews.nl:
Wolves were responsible for just 0.2% of the damage to fauna in the Netherlands in 2020, according to research by conservationists. Since the animals returned to the Netherlands in 2019 after a 150-year absence farmers have voiced concern about the threat to sheep and cattle.
From the Statesman Journal:
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A female wolf that had pups earlier this year has been illegally killed in northeast Washington state.
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife biologists responded to a report of a dead wolf on May 26 in the Sheep Creek area of Stevens County. The agency says the female died of a gunshot wound.
From the Idaho Statesman:
An Idaho family’s dog is recovering after being shot twice on Saturday by a camper who mistook her for a wolf.
Rob Kolb and his 16-year-old daughter, Piper, were backpacking at North Fork Lake in the Boulder Mountains with their Alaskan malamute, Suki, when the dog wandered to a nearby campsite. A camper there believed Suki was a wolf and fired three bullets from a handgun, striking the dog in the head.
From ABCNews:
DENVER — Colorado has its first litter of gray wolf pups since the 1940s, state wildlife officials said Wednesday.
A state biologist and district wildlife manager each spotted the litter of at least three wolf pups over the weekend with their parents, two adult wolves known to live in the state, Gov. Jared Polis announced in a news release. Most wolf litters have four to six pups, so there could be more.
From the Montrose Press in Colorado:
A Colorado Parks and Wildlife biologist and CPW district wildlife manager each independently reported visual confirmation of multiple pups with wolves M2101 and F1084. While these observations were necessarily made at long distance, CPW staff have recorded three separate, but similar, sightings of pups on the ground in Colorado.
From ABCNews:
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A record 22 captive-born Mexican gray wolf pups have been placed into dens in the wild in the southwestern U.S. to be raised by surrogate packs, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Monday.
The agency called this year’s cross-fostering season a success, saying the endangered predators that have been part of the fostering program over the last six years have helped to boost genetic diversity among the wild population in New Mexico and Arizona.
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.