From Politico:
European hunters want Ursula von der Leyen to do more to protect farmers from wolves and speed up the ongoing review of the large carnivore’s protection status.
In a letter sent to the European Commission president Wednesday, the European Federation for Hunting and Conservation asked von der Leyen to engage in “swift action to establish practical management frameworks for coexistence.”
From the Wildlife Society:
Efforts to restore seismic survey lines, which cut through huge swaths of western Canadian land, to their more natural state may improve caribou habitat. But these restoration efforts may also make moose less likely to use some areas.
The oil and gas industry cuts seismic lines through the boreal forest while surveying for fossil fuels. Older seismic lines were made using large wood chippers that cut kilometers-long paths a little narrower than a single-lane road straight through the trees. These machines—and subsequent traffic on these paths by ATV users—compact the ground. As a result, the forest doesn’t grow back the same way as it would in these areas compared to areas cleared by natural wildfires.
From EuroGreen News:
Estonia has, once again, begun culling its wolf population.
A specified number of wolves are killed in the Baltic country every year, though this time around conservationists are worried.
Estonia’s Environmental Agency has set the cull quota at 144, claiming there are more wolves in the country than conservation plans permit.
From Michigan Radio:
Michigan’s wolf population remains stable at about 630 wolves, and there are no plans for a harvest season for wolves in the state. These were some of the conclusions drawn by Michigan’s Natural Resources Commission and Department of Natural Resources (DNR) wildlife biologists at a recent meeting in Lansing to discuss Michigan’s wolves.
From 12News:
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Terra lies on a metal table, IV in her arm, oxygen mask over her nose.
A team of doctors work around her, drawing blood, giving her a full body workup to see if there’s anything wrong with her. Because Terra is very rare.
Terra is a Mexican gray wolf.
“We’re just doing an annual physical exam,” said Dr. Anne Justice, a veterinarian for Arizona Game & Fish. “These wolves appear to be healthy but we just want to make sure.”
From University of Manitoba News:
Researchers found that human activities change where deer are on the landscape, and wolves tend to go where the deer are. They also found that wolves leverage human infrastructure to their advantage.
Sean Johnson-Bice, who led the project, says it took very intensive field work to come to these conclusions. He and his team went out and captured wolves to install GPS collars on them.
They then visited every single location where a wolf spent more than 20 minutes.
“We’re basically going out there like crime scene investigators looking for evidence of a kill,” he said.
From Whiskey Riff:
Well, that’s not something you see every day. We all know it happens out there, but we just don’t see it. To be truthful, I hate seeing a big buck go down like this. They have outsmarted all sorts of predators for many years and grew to be a large member of their population, contributing yearly to the genetic pool.
From Phys.org:
A team of land managers at the University of Minnesota, working with a colleague at the University of Manitoba, has learned more about the role wolves play in boreal forest dynamics as they prey on beavers. In their study, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the group used GPS trackers on wild wolves and cameras placed around several beaver ponds at a forested park in Minnesota to learn more about the impact of beavers and wolves on forest dynamics.
From Wisconsin Public Radio:
With hundreds of wolves now in Wisconsin, a state board recently approved a new plan for managing the controversial carnivores.
The Natural Resources Board sets policies for the state Department of Natural Resources and approved a new wolf management plan Oct. 25.
The final version of the plan is expected to be published in the coming weeks, said Randy Johnson, a DNR large carnivore specialist. In the meantime, a draft version is available on the DNR’s website.
From Fronteras:
Last year, an endangered Mexican gray wolf made headlines when she wandered into northern New Mexico.
She was captured and returned to Arizona, but reports say she is on the move again.
The wolf moved into the southern Rocky Mountains in New Mexico, far from any known wolf packs.
A group of schoolchildren named her Asha.
The International Wolf Center advances the survival of wolf populations by teaching about wolves, their relationship to wildlands and the human role in their future.