From TMJ4.com:
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin wildlife officials are giving people more time to comment on their new wolf management plan.
The state Department of Natural Resources released their first new wolf plan in almost 25 years in November. The plan doesn’t include a specific statewide population goal, recommending instead that the DNR with the help of advisory committees monitor decide whether to reduce local populations, keep them stable or let them grow.
From the nationalpost.com:
From News.Yahoo.com:
Jan. 4—UNION COUNTY — Wolves in the High Valley area of Union County made their violent presence felt at the end of December.
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is reporting that “new” wolves in the Catherine Creek Wildlife Management Unit killed two calves on private land in separate attacks.
From the Pagosa Daily Post:
Colorado could be less than a year away from the state’s first relocation of gray wolves to parts of the Western Slope, as required by a ballot initiative passed by voters in 2020.
A draft plan released by Colorado Parks and Wildlife last month calls for the reintroduction of 10 to 15 wolves per year over the next three to five years, with an initial target of a stable population of at least 50 animals within the state. (You can download the 293-page plan here.)
From The Times in the UK:
“The wolves are running” is the haunting refrain in John Masefield’s classic seasonal tale The Box of Delights, and this winter the predator is back on the menace.
While Kay Harker and his friends have the magical powers of Old England to ward off the threat, on mainland Europe there is little anybody can do.
From MLive.com:
When a hunter in Manitoba, Canada legally shot and killed a gray wolf in early December, a radio collar found around its neck was the first clue to the incredible journey this animal had been on. The wolf had been collared in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in the summer of 2021, and its GPS data since then showed this wolf’s multi-state and two-country trek was one for the record books.
From The Guardian:
The biggest wolf cull in modern times has begun in Sweden as nature organisations warn it could drastically harm the population.
On Monday, the Guardian accompanied 200 hunters as they went to kill wolves in the frost-covered forests between Gävleborg and Dalarna, hunting from midnight until the sun set at 3pm. Groups will be going out across Sweden all month as they attempt to take down the large predators.
From the Star Tribune in Minnesota:
MADISON, Wis. — Most of the respondents to the Wisconsin Conservation Congress’ spring survey say they support limiting the state’s wolf population to 350 animals.
The congress, an influential group of sportspeople who advise the state Department of Natural Resources on policy, holds a survey each spring gauging respondents’ support for a wide range of outdoor and environmental proposals. This year’s survey was conducted online earlier this month.
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From the Coloradoan:
JACKSON COUNTY — It’s an unusually warm but usual windy mid-April day as Don Gittleson approaches a calf born recent enough that its mother was eating the afterbirth to keep predators off their scent.
Gittleson, along with his son, Dave Gittleson, and Dave’s wife, Andrea Gittleson, know this cow, ear tag No. 372, is cantankerous during calving time.
From the Duluth News-Tribune in Minnesota:
DULUTH — The Biden administration this week filed a placeholder to appeal the February court order restoring federal protections for wolves across much of the U.S., including in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan.
The administration filed a notice of appeal to a federal judge’s order in February restoring endangered species protections for gray wolves that were removed under the Trump administration late in 2020.
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