From TV6:
ESCANABA, Mich. (WLUC) – A new research project on wolves in the U.P. is using new estimator tools to ensure the wolf count in the U.P. is accurate.
Researchers from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Division and Michigan State University are working to better identify the number of wolves across the U.P. through the “Wolf Abundance Project.”
From Outdoor Life:
Harrowing footage of wolf 1276F from Yellowstone’s Junction Butte pack emerged on Instagram on Oct. 4. In the video, captured by Yellowstone wildlife photographer Peggy Peregrine-Spear, the collared female wolf walks across a field sporting a brutal injury that claimed her lower jaw, leaving nothing but a thin piece of flesh behind.
“Her injury is possibly from a hunting encounter with either an elk or bison and is said to have happened around Sept 26,” Peregrine-Spear writes in the caption. “YNP is aware of her situation.”
From Smokey Mountain News:
A final recovery plan for the red wolf, a document from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that will guide recovery efforts for an imperiled native species, is now complete.
“The final revised plan underscores the service’s commitment to working with others to conserve the red wolf while also maintaining a rural way of life by working farms and ranches,” said U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Martha Williams. “Successful recovery requires collaboration with all who are involved and interested in red wolf recovery, including continued transparent engagement with the community to facilitate a coexistence between people and red wolves.”
From the Wildlife Society:
Gray wolf (Canis lupus) conservation has switched from trying to recover the species in the U.S. three decades ago, to trying to manage conflicts that arise as the predators’ populations and ranges expand.
“From a strictly biological standpoint, they’ve clearly recovered across the Lower 48 states,” said David Mech, a senior research scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey.
Mech, a senior research scientist with USGS, and his colleague David Ausband, also with the USGS, recently published a paper in Bioscience looking at the challenges gray wolf recovery has brought across the U.S. and the different ways science can help managers with those problems.
From Adirondak Explorer:
With a brown satchel slung over his shoulder and eyes scanning the ground, Joe Butera walked down a logging road in a remote section of the northern Adirondacks.
He was looking for canid tracks and scat, like he’d seen this past winter and spring.
“This is where I found three individual scats that were huge,” said the 70-year-old retired electrician, as he turned around at a gate and about 75 feet before an expanse of bog opened along the road.
From My Edmonds News:
Eleven conservation groups are asking Washington state to tighten its guidelines for when wolves that attack livestock can be killed.
The groups are concerned too many wolves are dying needlessly under the current system. Their petition to Washington’s Fish and Wildlife Commission describes the existing standards the state uses to authorize lethal action against the animals as “ineffective,” and calls for the panel to open a process to update the rules.
From Tacoma Weekly:
At Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium, it’s a big “howl yes!” for American red wolf conservation.
The Tacoma zoo has been a national leader in bringing this critically endangered species back from the brink of extinction since the 1970s. And decades later, 2023 has been one of the most successful years in the zoo’s history of working to recover this iconic American species.
From The Country Today:
As a Washburn farmer, Larry Ekholm is concerned about livestock and the threat wolves pose to his animals.
Wolves haven’t killed any of his cattle so far this year, but he knows fellow farmers who have been victim and has heard horror stories. He credits his own safeguards with keeping his herd safe.
From Bertie Ledger-Advance:
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is releasing the final revision of the Red Wolf Recovery Plan to guide recovery efforts for “America’s Red Wolf.”
The original recovery plan for the Red Wolf was approved in 1982 and was revised in 1984 and 1990. The Service published a draft revised recovery plan in September 2022 and is now making the final revised plan available to the public.
Click here for the full story.
From the Denver Post:
The wolf population in northeastern Oregon is resilient and will not suffer long-term impacts from the captures, according to the news release. State officials plan to release the wolves on Colorado Parks and Wildlife land between Glenwood Springs, Vail and the Roaring Fork Valley.
Although Oregon wildlife officials will help by sharing information about wolf locations, the release says Colorado will be responsible for all costs of capturing and transporting the wolves. All captured wolves will be tested and treated for disease on-site in Oregon. Those with significant injuries — such as missing eyes or mange — won’t be transported to Colorado.
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