From Mountain Journal:
The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission voted last month to increase wolf-hunting quotas, while also shifting direction on its earlier recommendation to increase limits for mountain lion quotas.
From Mountain Journal:
The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission voted last month to increase wolf-hunting quotas, while also shifting direction on its earlier recommendation to increase limits for mountain lion quotas.
From Colorado Politics:
Among the more than two dozen bills contemplated for Thursday’s special session of the Colorado General Assembly is one to pause funding for the wolf reintroduction program run by Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
The money, $264,268, would be shifted to pay for the health insurance accountability enterprise. That money would cover subsidies for people on the individual market to purchase health insurance through the exchange, as well as several other purposes.
From Dutch News:
Business owners near Austerlitz are worried about their futures after several municipalities have advised against visiting the Utrechtse Heuvelrug area after a wolf attacked passers-by.
“Mijd Bos Utrechtse Heuvelrug” (Avoid Forest Utrechtse Heuvelrug) is displayed on road signs. “The communication is so intense that we’re completely avoided,” Maaike Houtkamp, manager at restaurant ‘t Lanshuys, told national broadcaster NOS.
From Wallowa County Chieftain:
ENTERPRISE — In the wake of the successful passage of Senate Bill 777 to increase the compensation to livestock owners for wolf predation, the Wallowa County Board of Commissioners is ready for more action. The board on Wednesday, Aug. 13, held its second work session on the predators, this time focusing largely on wolves decimation of elk herds in Wallowa County. The board is even considering pushing for a wolf-hunting season in Oregon.
From CBC/Radio-Canada:
A Norwegian trekker, who RCMP say lost one of his two dogs to a wolf attack, is missing in northern Manitoba and an all-out search is underway.
Steffen Skjottelvik, 29, left Fort Severn, Ont., on foot on July 25 with his two dogs and the intention to arrive in York Factory, Man., on Aug. 15 — a distance of more than 300 kilometres.
From MLive:
ISLE ROYALE, MI – Isle Royale National Park officials have given a few more details about the wolf that had to be killed earlier this month after it was involved in an increasing number of concerning incidents around human food at campsites and other public areas on the island.
From Axios San Francisco:
Only three of California’s 10 active wolf packs had pups this year, per new state data.
From Belga News Agency:
From Brussels to the forests of Belgium, Sweden, Italy and Poland, the wolf has been transformed from a conservation icon into a lightning rod in Europe’s culture wars, pitting city dwellers against rural communities, farmers against environmentalists, and fact against fear.
From CBS News:
Isle Royale National Park officials said they have killed a wolf on the island after it became “food-conditioned” and had several concerning interactions with park visitors.
From Laramie Boomerang:
POWELL — Montana District federal Judge Donald Molloy has ruled the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service broke the law last year when it denied a petition to protect gray wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains under the Endangered Species Act and to take another look at whether Montana and Idaho can be trusted to manage wolves within their states’ borders.
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