Clellan provides update on wolves at [Colorado] CPW Commission meeting

From TheMountainMail.com:

Colorado Parks and Wildlife will fully comply with a request from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to provide further information about the state’s voter-approved gray wolf reintroduction program, in response to threats of a federal takeover of the three-year project to establish a resident wolf population in the state.

CPW Acting Director Lauren Clellan confirmed the move during the Jan. 14 CPW Commission meeting, providing updates on recent developments that have complicated an already tense third round of gray wolf releases.

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I spent 7 years tracking an elusive wolf pack through the snowy wilds of Canada. My encounters were mind-blowing

From DiscoverWildlife.com:

Meet the Opoyastin pack, the charismatic wild wolves who inhabit the icy wilderness of Canada’s Kaska Coast.

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Wolf From Yellowstone’s Famous Junction Butte Pack May Have Been Poached

From CowboyStateDaily.com:

Another female member of Yellowstone National Park’s popular Junction Butte Pack has been killed. This time, Montana game wardens are investigating it as a poaching.

Wolf 1478F is thought to have been killed on or around Christmas Day in Montana’s Wolf Hunt Area 313, north of Yellowstone.

The killing is being investigated as illegal, because by then, hunters had already legally filled the three-wolf quota for that area, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Game Warden Kameron Rauser told Cowboy State Daily.

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Red wolves return to North Carolina, take down coyotes and raccoons, change the game in the forests, protect nests on the ground, hold deer in line, make saplings grow, and show why a superpredator could rebuild the entire Southeast by 2026.

From ClickPetroeoEGas.com:

On the Albemarle Peninsula in northeastern North Carolina, reintroduced red wolves are once again putting pressure on mesopredators and rebalancing the forest. The recovery area covers approximately 6.000 km² between refuges and private properties. By 2026, orange GPS collars and coyote management will support expansion beyond official boundaries.

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As wolves spread, frustration grows over patchwork rules among states

From AgDaily.com:

Editor’s Note: This is the third in a three-part series exploring the impact that wolf reintroduction in the U.S. has had on livestock operations. Caution: This article includes graphic images of livestock carcasses.

Wolves are no longer a hypothetical part of the Western United States. For ranchers that are operating in recovery, reintroduction, and even zones where wolves are crossing state lines, they’re a daily management reality. As apex predators, wolves bring a new layer of risk to operations that are often already stretched thin by drought, rising input costs, and labor shortages.

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Dutch dog-owners’ shock at forest ban while wolves roam free

From BrusselsSignal.eu:

Dog owners in the Netherlands are in shock after a forest in Ulvenhout, in the province of North Brabant, was suddenly declared off-limits this week.

Authorities say dogs damage nature through nitrogen emissions from their waste.

Wolves on the other hand are allowed to roam freely through all forests and, under European regulations, are regarded as virtually untouchable.

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How Grateful Dead member Bob Weir helped Colorado reintroduce wolves

From YahooNews.com:

Who knew there was a connection between wolves reintroduced to Colorado and the Grateful Dead?

The Rocky Mountain Wolf Project, which spearheaded the narrow passage of Proposition 114 in 2020 to reintroduce wolves, acknowledged on Facebook the passing of Grateful Dead founding member Bob Weir.

Weir died Jan. 10 at the age of 78.

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An Ancient Wolf Cub’s Last Meal Just Rewrote The Woolly Rhino Extinction Story

From ScienceAlert.com:

The last meal eaten by a wolf cub before its demise, some 14,400 years ago, has yielded new insight into how the woolly rhinoceros disappeared from this world.

A previous analysis of the stomach contents of a cub found in the Siberian permafrost in 2011 revealed a belly full of woolly rhino (Coelodonta antiquitatis) meat close to the time of the rhino’s extinction. Now, geneticists have sequenced the rhino’s genome – and found no evidence of long-term population decline or inbreeding.

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Defenceless: 90% of [Netherlands] farms lack fences as wolf attacks mount

From DutchNews.nl:

Attacks by wolves on livestock increased last year, an analysis of figures provided by monitoring organisation BIJ12 has shown.

By October 2025, the number of confirmed reports of attacks on sheep and other livestock reached 888, compared with 770 in the whole of 2024. Some 212 reports from November and December are still being investigated.

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When wolves and wolverines collide: What research says about how these predators may interact in Colorado

From DenverGazette.com:

As every Coloradan should be aware of, wolves were reintroduced to the state in December of 2023 and they’ve been making headlines ever since. Less discussed is the impending wolverine reintroduction, which will mean adding another long-gone predator species to the state’s landscape within a relatively short timespan assuming plans come to fruition.

While both the wolf and the wolverine had breeding populations in the Centennial State into the early 1900s, it’s been many decades since both species have interacted in Colorado, begging the question: what will happen when these two species meet?

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