From WXPR in Wisconsin:
Republican Congressman Tom Tiffany is once again introducing legislation to federally de-list gray wolves.
The “Trust the Science Act” would remove the gray wolf from the endangered species list and return management control to states.
From Euro News:
Swedish hunters can hunt a record high 75 wolves, twice the usual number, in a cull which has divided city and rural communities in the Nordic nation.
Sweden has positioned itself as a leading country in environmental protection, but has had a historic opposition to wolves.
From The Sault News:
UPPER PENINSULA — The Michigan Department of Natural Resources recently released its 2022 Upper Peninsula Gray Wolf Population Survey, highlighting the stability of the wolf population.
The survey recorded 631 wolves, plus or minus 49 wolves. A total of 136 packs were estimated in the survey, with an average of 4.5 wolves per pack.
From the Albuquerque Journal:
APACHE CREEK – It was a clear, sunny day with snow on the ground, when a helicopter landed in a clearing on the Gila National Forest. A woman in a baggy jumpsuit, orange helmet and aviators approached the helicopter and came away with a 50 pound Mexican gray wolf.
The pup of the year in a soft, winter coat was limp in her arms. She was greeted by the crew of government and nonprofit workers about 100 feet away, where they weighed her and laid her on a padded truck bed. A half dozen people, including veterinarians, swarmed in.
From Newsradio 560KPQ in Washington:
An Okanogan County lawmaker says more needs to be done to protect ranchers, cattlemen, and rural families from a rising wolf population.
According to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, the state’s gray wolf population has grown nearly 28-percent each year since 2008.
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From CBSNews.com:
More information is being collected on gray wolves and their habits as the animals navigate new territory in Colorado. Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers are capturing, collaring and releasing gray wolves.
On Thursday, CPW officers captured and collared, and in one case, recollar, two gray wolves in North Park. Male wolf 2101 was collared two years ago and was fitted with a new collar. Wolf 2301, another male presumed to be one of 2101’s pups, was also fitted with a collar.
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From the Post Independent in Colorado:
Colorado Parks and Wildlife is coming to Rifle next week to discuss and collect public feedback over the state’s contentious plan to restore gray wolves in its ecosystem.
The meeting is slated for 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Tuesday at Colorado Mountain College Rifle, 3695 Airport Road. Anyone who can’t attend the meeting in-person but are interested in making a public comment can fill out a form online, at engagecpw.org. The deadline for filling out and submitting this public comment document is Feb. 22.
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From Grand View Outdoors:
DNA tests confirmed that a licensed New York hunter killed a wolf during the 2021 coyote season, state officials said. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation officials confirmed an animal killed by a hunter in Cherry Valley, Otsego County, was a wolf.
Initial DNA analysis completed in summer 2022 determined the wild canid to be most closely identified as an Eastern coyote. The hunter voluntarily submitted DNA for further analysis to Dr. Bridgett vonHoldt, Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University, as part of a joint research effort by multiple parties.
From Politico:
EU environment ministers are howling that the European Commission should do more to protect wolves.
Twelve of the bloc’s environment ministers reacted to a European Parliament resolution that called to downgrade the gray wolf’s protection status to help livestock farmers, by urging the Commission to preserve its place as a protected species.
From Politico:
In the next few hours, it will be decided if the wolf that killed the pony of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will survive.
On September 1, 2022, a wolf used the cover of darkness to sneak into a well-guarded compound in northwest Germany and kill Dolly, the 30-year-old pony belonging to von der Leyen.
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