From the Sawyer County Record:
We’ve all heard of wolves attacking hunting dogs deep in the woods, but we are less likely to hear about a wolf attacking a dog near a home. The latter is raising some concern in the Namakagon area.
From UpperMichigansSource.com and Isle Royale National Park:
HOUGHTON, Mich. (WLUC) – Immediately following the end of the government shutdown, National Park Service (NPS) personnel went to Isle Royale to prepare for a potential translocation of wolves from Canada and the 61st annual wolf/moose population monitoring. The extreme cold and weather conditions prevented any successful translocation of wolves from Ontario last week.
From TheNews.com:
“A wolf attacks a man”: true or false, this story reported in the Daily newspaper Bild, the most read of Germany, has fueled the debate on the increased presence of this predator in the country, noted in the German campaigns and generating diffuse fears.
From The Columbian:
One of the few wolves that has taken up residence near Mount Hood has died, wildlife officials confirmed Monday.
The wolf was found in November near U.S. 26 and its cause of death was unknown, said Elizabeth Materna, a spokeswoman with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the agency responsible for wolf management in most of Western Oregon.
From IdahoNews.com and the Associated Press:
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho board that pays a federal agency to kill wolves that attack livestock and elk is a step closer to becoming permanent following a Senate panel’s split vote on Monday.
From Whale House Guest House:
People have been saying wolves in Newfoundland have been extinct for around 100 years, claiming the last known sighting to have been anywhere between 1911 and 1930, but is that really true? A quick wiki search will tell you the Newfoundland wolf (a subspecies of the grey wolf) is long gone and that the only canine on the island is the coyote, which was recently introduced. But things are not always as they seem, and just like it was thought the black bear had long left Newfoundland’s Avalon Peninsula (there were three sightings in the summer of 2018 of black nears on the Avalon) the wolf may not have gone anywhere.
From the Daily Inter Lake in Montana:
Emotions were strong as hundreds of hunters and trappers from Northwest Montana made their feelings known about wolves in the region at a gathering Wednesday at the Red Lion in Kalispell.
The meeting, one of a handful that have been held in Region 1 this winter, was organized by the Montana Sportsmen for Fish and Game, and Idaho-based Foundation for Wildlife Management.
From OPB.org:
One of the wolves recently spotted on Mount Hood has died.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service confirmed to OPB that a 1.5-year-old male wolf from the White River pack died near Highway 26 in November.
From the Flathead Beacon in Montana:
On the eve of debate among Montana lawmakers in Helena over the future of wolf management, a spirited exchange was unfolding in this corner of the state, which harbors a robust wolf population and is home to a recent movement by hunters and trappers to publicly call for reducing the canids’ numbers.
From SFGate.com and the Associated Press:
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The number of wolves in Washington state is likely much higher than previously thought, according to a University of Washington researcher who spent two years studying the animals using scat-sniffing dogs.
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