Dan Stahler: Yellowstone Wolf Project’s New Alpha

From Mountain Journal:

For biologist Dan Stahler, flying over Yellowstone National Park in search of wildlife never gets old. Recently, as he helicoptered over a land painted with aspen yellows and whortleberry reds, he spied an animal moving through the trees: cougar.
With a start, Stahler realized he knew the big cat. A car had struck her in the park a few months earlier, and after seeing the scene, Stahler had given her up for dead. Yet there she was, on the prowl. She reminded him of another animal, a wolf from the Junction Butte Pack, who had somehow suffered a severe lower-jaw injury over the summer. He doubted she would survive but had seen her continuing to lope along with the pack.

FARM BUREAU CRITICAL OF WISCONSIN’S WOLF MANAGEMENT PLAN

From Brownfield:

A Wisconsin farm organization is not pleased with the state’s new wolf management plan.  Kevin Krentz with Wisconsin Farm Bureau tells Brownfield farmer members are disappointed the DNR got away from its numerical goal for the wolf population. “In the past, we’ve had plans with managing wolves to the 350 population, and two administrations, both the Trump Administration and the Obama Administration has approved delisting the wolves with Wisconsin having a plan to manage those wolves.”

Krentz says farmers and rural residents in the northern half of the state were not taken into consideration when drafting the wolf management plan. “If you’re going to be making a decision, you need to be having a public hearing in areas that are directly affected by these animals.”

 

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Fish and Wildlife Commission subject to new transparency measures

From Montana Free Press:

Newly bound by a settlement between a wolf advocacy group and Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, the seven-member Fish and Wildlife Commission charged with “wise management” of the state’s fish and wildlife resources conducted its business with a particular eye toward transparency when it met Oct. 19.

 

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Wildlife symposium returns

From Jackson Hole News and Guide:

One of Jackson’s oldest multidisciplinary summits, where conservation meets the local ecosystem, returns to full in-person programming for the first time since 2019.

The Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative’s Jackson Hole Wildlife Symposium will present projects, panels, data and novel mindsets to combat pressing environmental questions while finding the answers in a unified environment.

The symposium’s free keynote address on Thursday night features Ignacio Jiménez, an internationally recognized conservationist and author of “Effective Conservation: Parks, Rewilding, and Local Development.” Jiménez will discuss effective conservation action and pull from experience from around the globe.

 

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US zoo saving endangered red wolf, one dental checkup at a time

From Reuters:

EATONVILLE, Washington, Oct 25 (Reuters) – The endangered red wolf, the lone wolf species native only to the United States, is slowly coming back thanks to a breeding and reintroduction program that also takes special care of the wolves’ teeth.

The Tacoma-based Point Defiance Zoo is conducting dental exams and teeth-cleaning in its managed care program. Broken teeth “would prevent them from eating meat very well,” said Karen Wolf, the zoo’s head veterinarian.

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Wisconsin DNR Board votes to approve wolf management plan without numerical population goal

From Wisconsin Examiner:

The Wisconsin Natural Resources Board voted unanimously Wednesday to implement a new wolf management plan, approving the Department of Natural Resources’ decision not to include a numerical population goal over the objections of Republican lawmakers and pro-hunting groups.

The board is now entirely made up of appointees of Gov. Tony Evers, including four new members, who were appointed to the body last week by Evers when Republicans in the state Senate voted to fire his previous appointees, partially because of their stated support for the DNR plan.

 

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Yellowstone wolves react to first big snow; park issues advisory

From For The Win:

Yellowstone National Park on Wednesday cautioned tourists to postpone travel to and inside the park because of a “significant winter storm” that created hazardous driving conditions.

At the same time, researcher Taylor Rabe was afield in the park studying the Lupine Creek wolf pack.

“Yellowstone’s Northern range had its first very big snow today, and it was not kind to us,” Rabe, who conducts research for the Yellowstone Wolf Project, stated via Instagram. “Shutting down most of the park roads at one point or another this morning, the snow continues to fall. Winter is here.”

 

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‘Ghost wolf’ supporters set to howl about development near East Beachv

From The Daily News:

Devotees of the island’s “ghost wolves” say they’ll pack a city council meeting Thursday in protest of a housing development planned for land that’s home to some of those genetically unique and scientifically important canids.

At issue is rare coyotes carrying genetic echoes of red wolves and might hold the key to saving the near-extinct species, researchers have said.

 

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How a Salisbury zoo is helping save the red wolf population in North Carolina

From WNCT9:

SALISBURY, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — A small zoo in Salisbury is currently fighting an uphill battle: trying to save the state’s red wolf population.

Rowan County is currently accepting bids for Rowan Wild’s new red wolf building, which will double the size of the current structure and add an additional side yard.

 

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Want to manage wolves in the West? How you do that depends on where you’re standing

From Wyoming Public Media:

The Little Snake River crosses the Wyoming-Colorado border at least a dozen times on its westward journey. The river valley is agricultural, with goats, sheep and cattle grazing next to tiny school houses and churches.

“We don’t notice that there’s a border between Wyoming and Colorado here. We’re neighbors up and down this border,” said Bob Davis, a local rancher and Wyoming state lawmaker.

No matter what state you’re in, Davis said stock growers need to be prepared to handle predators, including gray wolves. His son recently bought some 190-pound dogs to protect a herd of sheep.

 

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