From ChekNews.ca:
The BC government spent a decade killing wolves to protect caribou.
Now, critics warn that despite questions about its effectiveness, ethics and impact on the rest of the environment, the government is moving to make the wolf cull a permanent part of its strategy.
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From WPR.org:
Conservation advocates are petitioning the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to list the gray wolf as a state-threatened or endangered species as Republicans in Congress seek to remove federal protections for the animal.
From Axios.com:
Wildlife officials are celebrating the arrival of new wolf pups in Colorado, even as ranchers and state lawmakers fret about increasing conflicts and costs associated with the apex predator’s reintroduction.
From MSN.com:
RED BLUFF – Tehama County Sheriff Dave Kain is exploring ways to address the increasing number of wolves and coyotes in the county.
Kain recently attended a meeting of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife in Sacramento to discuss the inability to hunt these animals and their negative impact on the agricultural community.
From the ColoradoSun.com:
At least one more litter of wolf pups has been born in Colorado, state wildlife officials confirmed Thursday.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife biologists are watching four dens and have seen pups and started to count them, spokesman Travis Duncan said. He did not release a number of pups or say whether all four dens under observation are confirmed to have pups.
From Smithsonianmag.org:
The animals that plummeted 85 feet into Wyoming’s Natural Trap Cave provide a layered history of life dating back to the Pleistocene.
From VailDaily.com:
Western Slope ranchers and elected officials urged Colorado Parks and Wildlife and its commission on Thursday to take more aggressive action in mitigating the impacts of the Copper Creek wolf pack on local livestock operations.
The Copper Creek pack was recently tied to four livestock attacks in eight days at ranches in Piktin County, leading Parks and Wildlife to kill one of the pack’s male yearlings. The attacks took place at McCabe Ranch at Old Snowmass, Crystal River Ranch and Lost Marbles Ranch.
From CBSNews.com:
On the California-Oregon border, in the shadow of Mount Shasta, Axel Hunnicutt, state wolf coordinator for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, is on the hunt for the gray wolf.
“Because it is potentially a kill site, we will be, you know, kind of cautious,” Hunnicutt told CBS News.
Once nearly extinct in the United States, wolves are making a comeback in California.
From DiscoverMagazine.com:
A domestic dog or a wolf? The difference seems easy enough to spot today, but the distinction was not always so evident. For years, scientists struggled to determine whether a pair of frozen puppies from around 14,000 years ago were early domestic dogs or wolves. Now, a new analysis could bring this debate to a close, confirming that the frozen pups were probably not early domestic dogs, but wolves, based on the animals’ bones, teeth, and soft tissues.
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From GJSentinel.com:
The director of Colorado Parks and Wildlife on Wednesday defended the agency’s handling of a wolf pack in the Roaring Fork Valley after criticism was leveled by an agency commissioner who also is a rancher there.
The discussion occurred during the Parks and Wildlife Commission’s meeting in Glenwood Springs after Parks and Wildlife recently killed a wolf from what’s known as the Copper Creek pack. The agency had determined that local livestock producers had experienced chronic wolf-related depredation involving cattle.
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