From Georgetown Times:
Three red wolves now prowl the four grassy acres of Red Wolf Ridge, and Brookgreen hopes to have more on hand in the future with the introduction of a breeding program. The species is designated as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimates that only about three dozen still exist in the wild, with another 278 in captivity.
From Billings Gazette:
Wolf advocates say the agency, under the direction of the Republican-dominated Legislature, has declared a war on the big canines by extending seasons to last six months and allowing more ways to kill wolves. On the other side of the issue, one of the lawmakers who helped usher in legislation to increase wolf hunting and trapping opportunities is worried FWP may ease the wolf harvest.
From Grandview Outdoors:
The Idaho Fish and Game Commission has unanimously approved a new wolf management plan, outlining goals and strategies to manage the population to fluctuate at about 500 wolves. The wolf plan drew roughly 2,500 comments during a 32-day public comment period, which will shape Idaho’s wolf management over the next six years. The plan was approved in the commission’s May 11 meeting.
From Tomahawk Leader:
On Monday, July 24, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) said the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Wildlife Services verified that wolves killed a Redbone trailing hound in the Town of Merrill.
From CPR News:
News of the worst winter for northwest Colorado big game animals in decades made Robert Fisher curious: How are wolves going to factor into all this?
From Portland Press Herald:
State biologists in the Northeast uniformly say that the likelihood of wolf populations in Canada getting a foothold in the Eastern United States is unlikely, if not impossible. But advocates with the Maine Wolf Coalition Inc. say a series of videos they’ve collected in Aroostook County prove wolves are in Maine.
From PBS North Carolina:
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Red Wolf Recovery Program reports that a new litter of wolf pups has been born to what is known as the Milltail family pack on the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge in eastern North Carolina.
From My Kolkata:
“The pictures suggest a male and a female wolf. Wolves have been captured on cameras in Purulia before. We believe that there is a stable population of Indian wolves in Purulia,” said Asitava Chatterjee, the divisional forest officer of Kangsabati South forest division.
From Washington Wildlife First:
Eleven conservation groups petitioned the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission yesterday to adopt rules requiring the state to meet certain standards before it uses taxpayer money to kill state endangered wolves.
From WISBusiness:
Wisconsin’s Green Fire (WGF), a nonpartisan independent nonprofit, reviewed the history and science behind the 350 goal in a newly published Conservation Bulletin report, “The 350 Wolf Goal in Wisconsin: An Assessment by Wisconsin’s Green Fire on Setting Population Goals for the State’s Gray Wolf Population.” The lead contributors on this WGF report include some of the original authors of the WDNR’s 1999 plan, such as wildlife biologist and WGF wildlife work group co-chair Adrian Wydeven.
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