From Daily Montanan:
Two Montana conservation groups have told federal authorities that they plan to sue within 60 days if the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service doesn’t reconsider its agreement with the state regarding exporting wolf pelts.
From The Outer Banks Voice:
A federally protected red wolf was found dead in Washington County, North Carolina along a fence line located south of Newland Road on May 18, 2023, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service needs your help in the investigation of the red wolf’s death.
From KTVZ:
Four wolves from the Five Points Pack in northeast Oregon’s Union County have been lethally removed by the USDA Wildlife Service in response to chronic depredation of livestock, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife said Friday.
From American Hunter:
Montana’s annual wolf report set the stage for a heated debate at the state’s Environmental Quality Council, which provides oversight for several agencies, including the Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP). The report showed that 248 wolves were harvested by hunters and trappers in 2022, well below the quota of 450 animals. Thirty five more animals were killed by the USDA’s Wildlife Services division for attacking livestock, with 10 more being killed by landowners for the same reason. This is also well below the 68-animal yearly average of depredation kills, calculated since 2002.
From The Center Square:
A conservation group says a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resource plan to manage the state’s wolf population ignores input from thousands living with the consequences of an out-of-control population.
From The Guardian:
For centuries, wolves have roamed the mountain ranges of Andalucía in southern Spain, but after years of decline the creature has been officially declared extinct in the region.
From AP News:
Wisconsin wildlife officials released a revised draft wolf management plan Tuesday that recommends holding the statewide population at around 1,000 animals, a concession to conservatives looking for a hard limit.
From My Modern Met:
The annual survey has catalogued moose and wolf populations in the National Park for decades. Isle Royale National Park is a beautiful main island surrounded by many smaller islands. In the park live a largely isolated population of wolves, moose, foxes, and other creatures. Each winter Michigan Technological University researchers camp out for seven weeks in snow-surrounded tents. This year, the researchers were on the island from January 20 to March 3, 2023. They carefully tracked, photographed, and investigated the animal inhabitants of the island.
From the Colorado Sun:
Over the course of a few years, 30 to 50 gray wolves are supposed to be introduced west of the Continental Divide. The working group advising CPW on the plan recommended using gray wolves captured from several different packs in the Northern Rockies of Idaho or Montana, or from sites in Oregon and Washington. The states are so far reluctant to help.
From Statesman Journal:
Gray wolves once roamed these forests and canyons, patrolling cliffs above the ocean and hunting deep ravines for deer and elk before European Americans blitzed the predators using guns and poison, exterminating them by 1920. More than a century later, wolves are quietly returning to Oregon’s oceanside forests and communities.
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