From NationalGeographic.com:
Maybe dogs didn’t need us at all to domesticate themselves. They may have been drawn to the discarded remains from ancient human meals, and a new model shows tame wolves could have become dogs in as little as 8,000 years.
From WKYZ.com:
(WXYZ) — The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is asking for the public’s help to conduct a community-based wolf survey in the Lower Peninsula.According to the DNR, they are surveying to detect any potential presence of gray wolves.
It will take place from Feb. 17 through March 10, and the survey will rely on reports of public wolf sightings and other potential evidence.
From KPQ.com:
There is broad agreement among Washington’s 7th district legislators, at least insofar as gray wolves are concerned.
East of Highway 97, there reputedly lives a healthy, fast-stabilizing and sometimes disruptive (or worse) wolf population. Legislators here want state law to reflect the attitude of federal watchdogs, who insist gray wolves are in much less trouble than before existentially. Here is a guide – a partial guide, anyway – to wolf-related bills percolating in Olympia. All of them strive to establish “local control of wolf management in the state’s northeastern counties.”
From KOAA.com:
TELLER COUNTY, Colo. — Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) says a gray wolf has entered the state’s Southeast region, including Park, Teller, and Fremont Counties. CPW wants people to be on the lookout for the female wolf for their safety.
“We have mama cows,” said Ranch owner Tom Hatton. Hatton says ranching has been very difficult to do for years. “Coyotes are acclimated. We are also dealing with predations from coyotes,” Hatton said. Hatton says he’s concerned about a wolf in the area.
From OutdoorLife.com:
Chasing and killing predators like wolves and coyotes with snowmachines remains legal in Wyoming even after some lawmakers tried twice to ban the practice Thursday.
The two efforts, a bill called Taking of Predators on Private Lands and another an amendment to an anti-wildlife torture bill, failed largely because the agricultural community says running over carnivores with snowmachines is necessary to manage domestic livestock in the state’s most-rural areas. National media and members of the public, on the other hand, are confusing the practice with hunting.
From Wildlife.org:
The legal wolf harvest in Idaho disproportionately affects breeding individuals—males and females that lead packs—during the breeding season.
Previous research reveals that removing these individuals from packs can hinder population growth.
“Those breeders are more vulnerable during the breeding season—they have breeding on the mind,” said Peter Rebholz, a research biologist at the University of Idaho.
In a study published recently in Wildlife Society Bulletin, Rebholz and his colleagues identified breeders from tissue samples from wolves harvested in Idaho. Then, they determined what proportion of the harvested wolves were breeders and what season they were harvested in.
From TVPWorld.com:
Two black wolves, which are very rarely seen in Europe, have been spotted roaming the forests of central Poland.
From ManitobaCooperator.ca:
Manitoba Beef Producers (MBP) says they’re cautiously optimistic about addressing ongoing issues with wolf predation, although some of their members are hot under the collar about it.
Wolves appear to be becoming bolder, a number of producers have stood up to say during industry meetings and over social media.
Stan Hutton, a landowner near Lake of the Prairies, said he has witnessed and heard of increasing wolf attacks from producers in his area. He recently alerted the Manitoba government to wolf activity in the Bodnaruk Hill subdivision at Lake of the Prairies. “It seems like the wolves are less afraid of human contact,” he said.
From CapitalPress.com:
A federal judge denied Idaho’s request that she reconsider her earlier ban on recreational wolf trapping and snaring when Endangered Species Act-protected grizzly bears are not in their dens. Federal Magistrate Judge Candy W. Dale in March 2024 ruled that trapping and snaring wolves during the grizzlies’ non-denning period from March 1 to Nov. 30 threatens the bears.
She ordered Idaho Fish and Game curtail its wolf snaring and trapping season in the state’s northern panhandle and Clearwater, Salmon and Upper Snake River regions.
From StatesmanJournal.com:
Oregon State Police are asking for help to identify the person responsible for illegally killing a wolf in Union County last month. It is the ninth wolf killed in a poaching incident involving Oregon’s most controversial predator since 2023.
Fish and Wildlife troopers responded to Catherine Creek Lane, about 11 miles southeast of Union, on Jan. 29 and located a wolf tracking collar, a news release said. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife identified the collar as belonging to OR-86 — the alpha male of the Frazier Mountain Pack.
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