From Cowboy State Daily:
Colorado’s wolf reintroduction program has so far been a disaster, but some believe there’s a chance it could still work if Wyoming’s southern neighbor would follow the Cowboy State’s lead.
“How do you make it (wolf reintroduction) work for hunters, how do you make it work for ranchers? How do you make it work for everybody?” said Jerry Whited, an experienced outdoorsman who’s lived in both states. “Follow that Wyoming model, and you’ll have a shot at making it work.”
From NBC News:
Colorado wildlife officials said Monday that they captured and plan to relocate five members of the first pack of wolves to form under the state’s ambitious wolf reintroduction program.
A sixth wolf — the pack’s adult male — was captured but died in captivity due to injuries unrelated to its capture, officials said. That wolf had been involved in repeated attacks on livestock and officials said it would have been kept in captivity if it survived.
From Montrose Press:
Wildlife advocates said Monday that they were “devastated” by the death of a reintroduced wolf that was captured late last month following a series of livestock depredations in the Middle Park area, and continued to place blame for the situation on a lack of effective conflict management and nonlethal control measures.
From Colorado Politics:
Ranchers who have lost dozens of livestock to wolves no longer have confidence in Colorado Parks and Wildlife and are now asking the federal government to intervene.
On Aug. 28, Don Gittleson of Jackson County and Conway Farrell of Grand County and their families wrote to regional officials with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, asking them to take control over decision-making regarding program to reintroduce wolves in Colorado.
From The Denver Post:
One of Colorado’s reintroduced wolves — the patriarch of the state’s newest pack — died of natural causes four days after being recaptured by state wildlife officials following a series of livestock killings.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife biologists captured the wolf on Aug. 30 and it died on Sept. 3, the agency announced Monday. Biologists had found the wolf, identified as 2309-OR, in poor condition, with several injuries to a hind leg and severely underweight, according to CPW.
From The Outer Banks Voice:
Joe Madison stops the truck, gets out and plucks a tree frog off the front window, gingerly placing it out of danger in the shrubs adjacent to the road. He gets back in and resumes the drive to Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge on the Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula.
Madison is the North Carolina Program Manager and Wildlife Biologist for the Red Wolf Recovery Program, managed by US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). He turns his head and says, “Even if they’re there, you probably won’t see them,” referring to the Red Wolves who call Alligator River and the surrounding lands home. “They want to be left on their own.”
From CBS News:
The death of a male wolf — one of the gray wolves released in Colorado last winter — is another sign of difficulty in re-establishing the animals in Colorado.
The wolf was believed to be a father to the Copper Creek Pack comprising four pups. Six animals were trapped by Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers at the end of August amid concerns over the deaths of livestock in the Middle Park area. Experts believe the male was behind the attacks.
From Sportsman Alliance:
Today, Sept. 9, the Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to compel the agency to issue findings on two petitions requesting gray wolf delisting and downlisting under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
From devdiscourse.com:
In an effort to address the ongoing wolf threat in Bahraich district, Uttar Pradesh, the forest department has enlisted the help of Dr. Shaheer Khan, a seasoned wildlife expert from the Wildlife Institute of India in Dehradun, with eight years of experience in wolf search and rescue missions. Dr. Khan noted that wolves are social creatures typically found in packs consisting of four to eight individuals, led by an alpha pair. In the current situation, the pack comprises six wolves.
From KQED:
California is once again home to gray wolves, a federally and state-protected endangered species, with its known population growing to over 50 wolves this year, up from zero for the better part of a century. However, a new report shows that attacks by wolf packs on livestock at ranches and farms have increased.
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