Navigating The [Wisconsin] Wolf Damage Loss Reimbursement Process

From Q106.com:

With calving and lambing season underway, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) would like to remind livestock producers in Wisconsin of the wolf damage loss reimbursement process.

During this time of year, producers may see increased wolf presence around their livestock or encounter a livestock depredation in their pastures that they suspect was caused by wolves. Producers may wonder what options they may have to deal with these conflicts.

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Hunters face $10,000 fines as [Wyoming] limit suddenly slashed in HALF over population concerns

From The-Sun.com:

Hunters could face fines of up to $10,000 if they break strict rules tied to a newly slashed bag limit. Wildlife officials are changing stipulations after a disease outbreak drove numbers to their lowest point in two decades.

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Pure wolves will likely never return to Maine

From BangorDailyNews.com:

As anyone who spends any time in the Maine woods knows, our coyote populations are plentiful and thriving despite recreational and programmed efforts to control these highly efficient predators.

And interestingly, there were no coyotes in Maine at one time. But what about wolves in Maine?

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Quiet drive home turns unsettling after wolf appears near La Pine [Oregon]

From YahooNews.com:

A rare wolf sighting on a road near La Pine, Oregon, is highlighting a growing reality in Central Oregon.

As development pushes farther into wild areas and wolf populations continue to recover, encounters between people and apex predators are becoming harder to avoid, according to KTVZ.

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California wolf numbers rose in 2025, wildlife officials say, but breeding pairs fell

From SacBee.com:

California’s wolf population was about 10% higher at the end of 2025 than the year before, despite the deaths of at least 12 animals, including four that were euthanized after attacking livestock, underscoring the state’s growing difficulties in managing protected predators.

There were 55 wolves in California by last December, up from 50 the year before, but down significantly from the previous estimate of 60 to 70 wolves in nine packs across the Sierra Nevada and other regions, according to a report released Thursday by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. But the number of successful breeding pairs — defined as mates that produced at least two pups that survived an entire year — declined from five to three, the report shows.

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Wild Cam: Cougars, wolves take down horses in Canada

From Wildlife.org:

It was the winter of 2022, and hounds were already on the trail of a cougar fresh off a recent kill in the remote wilderness of northern British Columbia. Just a day earlier, Shane White’s colleague was conducting wolf surveys by helicopter when she spotted the cat.

The cougar (Puma concolor) took off into the nearby timber as the chopper approached. But knowing that White was about to begin a project trapping cougars in the area to fit them with GPS tracking collars, the colleague immediately notified him.

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Wyoming cuts wolf hunt in half to buoy Yellowstone region’s disease-depleted population

From Wyofile.com:

Wyoming wildlife managers plan to reduce how many wolves can be hunted by 50% following a canine distemper outbreak that has cut the state’s wolf numbers to the lowest level in two decades.

A 22-wolf cap is the fewest number of wolves available to licensed Wyoming hunters since the state began allowing wolf hunting after Endangered Species Act protections were lifted in 2012. The limit also marks a significant decrease from last fall’s wolf hunting season.

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Fourteen [Spainsh] communities prepare lawsuits against the Government for failing to comply with the regulations on wolves

From Democrata.us:

Castilla y León has communicated this Thursday that, together with thirteen other autonomous communities, it will undertake legal actions against the Government after the deadline for the Ministry for Ecological Transition to send the six-year reports on the conservation status of various species of community interest, including the Iberian wolf, to the European Commission expired in July 2025.

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“As if I’m in the real Yellowstone.” These epic, secret mountains are teeming with predators

From DiscoverWildlife.com:

Deep within Romania’s Făgăraș Mountains, a vast, untouched forest of ancient woodland teems with wildlife. Could this be the Yellowstone of Europe?

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[Minnesota] DNR using faulty science on wolf management

From Timberjay.com:

Minnesota’s wolf management is headed toward a predetermined destination — zero wolf harvest — and the DNR is using two flawed scientific pillars to get there. The first is the Adams et al. 2008 model, which the DNR uses to set a 28-29 percent human-caused mortality ceiling.

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