From SteamboatPilot.com:
As Colorado legislators commenced the annual budgeting process this winter, their first review of the state’s Department of Natural Resources budget for the upcoming fiscal year was dominated by wolves. However, the state’s gray wolf reintroduction program is a unique line item for Colorado Parks and Wildlife — the enterprise agency that falls under the Department of Natural Resources.
From ScienceInPoland.pl:
Illegally stored poultry carcasses on or near farms attract wolves and increase the risk of conflicts between predators and humans, according to a new study by Polish scientists, who are calling for urgent inspections of factory farming operations.
Researchers from the Faculty of Biology at the University of Warsaw, in collaboration with experts from the Faculty of Biology at the University of Gdańsk, the Mysikrólik Foundation and Vet-House, found that improper disposal and storage of dead farm animals significantly affects the behaviour of large predators and draws them into human settlements.
From SkyHiNews.com:
In a Dec. 17 letter, the Grand County Board of County Commissioners condemned Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s decision to re-release wolf 2403 into the county. Commissioners called the move a violation of the state’s Wolf Restoration and Management Plan and a betrayal of ranching families who have already suffered heavy losses.
In the letter sent to Gov. Jared Polis, Commissioners Edward Raegner, Merrit Linke and Randal George said they were “profoundly disappointed” by Parks and Wildlife’s choice to return the wolf after its capture in New Mexico.
From CowboyStateDaily.com:
For the second time in as many years, a bipartisan coalition introduced a bill in the U.S. House to ban using snowmobiles to run over wolves and other predators on federal lands in all 50 states.
The “Snowmobiles Aren’t Weapons Act” (SAW), introduced Thursday, was inspired by a February 2024 incident near Daniel, Wyoming. Local resident Cody Roberts allegedly ran down a wolf with a snowmobile, captured and abused it before killing it behind the Green River Bar in Daniel.
From CabinRadio.ca:
The North Slave Métis Alliance says a Tłı̨chǫ Government proposal to extend a wolf harvesting program is being handled inappropriately by the regulator and may not be helping caribou. The regulator, the Wek’éezhìi Renewable Resources Board, says it is following the rules.
The Tłı̨chǫ Government says its program is part of “doing everything that we can to try to help the herds recover” – caribou numbers in the region are down significantly – and only a minor extension is being sought.
From WPR.org:
A former state conservation warden has been ordered to pay a fine for killing a wolf at his northern Wisconsin home two years ago, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
In 2023, Pat Quaintance of Bayfield reported to police that he’d killed the collared wolf during the early morning hours of Christmas Day. Quaintance is a hound hunter and former conservation warden with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, as well as a past president of the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation.
From WPR.org:
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill that would remove federal protections for gray wolves nationwide.
U.S. House Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Hazelhurst, cosponsored the bill this year with Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado and 30 other lawmakers, including Wisconsin’s Republican congressional delegation. The bill passed 211-204, largely along party lines.
From HighCountryNews.org:
2025 has been an eventful year for Mexican wolves. The imperiled predators — a subspecies of gray wolf reintroduced to the Southwest in 1998 — appeared to be bounding toward recovery: According to the latest census, released in March, about 286 wolves roam Arizona and New Mexico, marking a nine-year growth streak. In response, Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., introduced a bill in July to remove them from the list of federally endangered species.
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From RogueValleyTimes.com:
Rep. Cliff Bentz, who represents Eastern Oregon and Jackson and Josephine counties in Congress, warned that the growing population of gray wolves is an increasing threat to livestock and the meat industry and called for their removal from federal endangered species protections. Speaking on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives last week, Bentz said the protections for wolves are restricting livestock owners’ ability to defend their herds. The compensation they receive from lost cattle is inadequate, he added.
From SummitDaily.com:
When Colorado voters passed Proposition 114 in 2020, it not only initiated the state’s reintroduction of gray wolves but also required Colorado Parks and Wildlife to help producers prevent wolf conflict and pay ranchers fair compensation for livestock losses.
With the creation of a wolf plan, the state wildlife agency also stood up a new model and process for compensating ranchers for wolf-related livestock losses. Now, taking knowledge from the first two years of reintroduction and a stakeholder group convened this year, the agency is seeking to improve and clarify the process.
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