From OBP:
The wolf, known as OR-143, was a member of the Indigo pack in Western Oregon.
A male yearling wolf in Oregon was hit and killed by a vehicle on Monday along Highway 138. According to the Center for Biological Diversity, the wolf was not behaving like the animals typically do around humans, leading state officials to believe that people had been feeding him from their cars.
From the Sacramento Bee:
Wildlife officials released an endangered Mexican gray wolf back into the Arizona wilderness after holding her in captivity for five months. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife service captured female wolf 2754 — nicknamed Asha by conservationists — in northern New Mexico in January, and held her at the agency’s Sevilleta Mexican Wolf Management Facility outside Socorro, officials said in a June 14 news release.
From MLive.com:
ISLE ROYALE, MI – The effort to rebuild wolf packs on Michigan’s remote Isle Royale National Park continues to gain momentum, with researchers’ annual study showing an increase in the number of wolves and new pups born, along with a sharp decline in the number of moose.
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From Michigan Tech:
Wolves, their count up by three, stabilize and organize. Moose, down by 379, starve and decline. Michigan Technological University researchers discuss the latest populations in the 64th Isle Royale Winter Study.
From The News & Observer:
A family of red wolves was released into the wild in North Carolina, giving new hope to an endangered species. Video captured the moments when two parents and a couple of their cute babies roamed onto a refuge for the first time as a family, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Red Wolf Recovery Program.
From Association of Zoos and Aquariums:
On 27 April, seven Mexican wolf puppies were born at Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Ill. One male pup remains at the Zoo, while on 6 May, the other six puppies—four males and two females—were placed in wild Mexican wolf dens as part of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services’ Mexican Wolf Recovery Program.
From Kare11 News:
Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf? Spawning fish…apparently.
From The Madras Pioneer:
Within the past few weeks, a wolf or wolves have killed two calves owned by one rancher. The rancher wishes to remain anonymous. His ranch straddles county lines. One of the calves died in Deschutes County, the other in Jefferson County.
This is the first confirmed livestock kill in Jefferson County by a wolf since wolves started recolonizing Northeast Oregon more than a decade ago.
From Axios De Moines:
Ancient DNA of sheep and wolves are among the latest animal remains being researched by a Des Moines University scientist who’s been exploring Natural Trap Cave (NTC) in Wyoming for nearly a decade.
Why it matters: The work may help unravel mysteries about animal survival through evolution during the Ice Age.
From West News Magazine:
A constant stream of howling emanated from the second row as soon as Regina Mossotti’s name was announced at the TEDxStLouis presentation on May 13. It was fitting, given that her talk was titled “Who is Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?”
“Raise your hand if you’ve ever seen a movie or read a story with a big, bad wolf in it?” Mossotti, former Director of Animal Care and Conservation at the Endangered Wolf Center (EWC), asked the audience. She then shared how movies perpetuate a negative image of wolves, showing them as scary animals, snarling and often covered with blood. She said those images portray the wolf as something to be feared, and if we fear something, we don’t want to save it.
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