From MontanaOutdoor.com:
Freelance writer Katie Jackson’s favorite animal is a wolf, while her rancher parents feel the opposite about the canines. She ended up writing an article about how she took them wolf-watching at Yellowstone National Park. Here’s how it goes:
From ColoradoSun.com:
Pat and Jan Stanko raise 180-pound Turkish Boz Shepherds, known for loving kids, lambs, calves and tiny chicks. They’re also fierce defenders of livestock against wolves, and a nonlethal coexistence group hopes to build a team they can deploy to ranchers on short notice.
From PanWorks.Medium.com:
In January, I participated in the National Wolf Conversation, an event that brought together 25 people with a wide variety of perspectives on wolf recovery. Supported by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and convened by the independent organization Constructive Conflict, it sought to build lasting relationships among parties on all sides of the wolf issue.
I’ve covered the arguments over wolf recovery in the U.S. West for many years now, and watching those involved in this entrenched conflict begin to work together toward common ground was a profound experience; journalist Callie Hanson, who also participated in the conversation, and I wrote more about it here.
From CascadePBS.org:
The film explores the relationship between a cowboy in Eastern Washington working to protect wolves and a rancher trying to protect his cattle.
From NewRepublic.com:
In France, wolves have become a crucible for political tensions. Royal wolf-catchers—whose job dates back to the 800s—are feeling the pressure.
From IronMountainDailyNews.com:
LANSING — Jeffrey Holden spends his summers knee-deep in dead moose. In his new book “Dead Moose on Isle Royale: Off Trail with the Citizen Scientists of the Wolf-Moose Project” (Michigan State University Press, $24.95), Holden turns decades of volunteer field notes and short essays into an off-trail narrative about the people who sustain one of ecology’s longest-running studies.
The Wolf-Moose Project at Isle Royale National Park started with scientists from Purdue University, Durward Allen and L. David Mech, in 1958. Since then, volunteers have collected data through on-the-ground fieldwork and built a six-decade record that reveals how climate, disease and food availability shape population cycles.
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From EUToday.net:
After centuries, the wolf is making a long-awaited return. For years, only the Wolvenweg served as a possible reminder of the apex predator’s former presence in Tervuren. Now, change is on the horizon.“They’ve been here before. And they’ll show up again,” Jan Loos told Tervuren+.
From IndiaTimes.com:
Uttar Pradesh’s forest department issued “shoot on sight” orders for aggressive wolves in Bahraich district following six deaths and recent injuries. While fresh attacks occurred, one animal killed by villagers was identified as a jackal, not a wolf, adding confusion. Authorities are taking measures to neutralize threats, and a state minister has pledged aid to affected families.
From SantaFeNewMexican.com:
The Mexican gray wolf, or the lobo, is the subject of much political theater here in New Mexico, and I believe The Santa Fe New Mexican has fanned the flames of controversy with its article (“Ranchers feeling hunted,” Sept. 28). The online headline lays it out: “Vandalism and threats: A New Mexico county is at the forefront of the West’s wolf reintroduction debate.”
From PostIndependent.com:
Colorado’s “Born to be Wild” wolf license plate has raised over $1 million for the state’s effort to restore gray wolves.
Sales of the wolf license plate hit the milestone 21 months after launching in January 2024. The specialty plate is purchased with a one-time $25 fee that goes to the Colorado Department of Motor Vehicles and a recurring $50 annual fee that goes to Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
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