From the Colorado Sun:
From his helm atop Colorado Parks and Wildlife, director Jeff Davis sees a future where hunting equals recreation equals wolves restored to the landscape
From Durango Herald:
Recent media coverage of U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s bill calling to delist the gray wolf from federal protection misses the most salient point: Boebert loathes wolves.
From Yahoo.com:
A second livestock depredation by the Copper Creek pack since wildlife officials began efforts nearly a month ago to lethally remove a pack member has heightened tension between ranchers and Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
From ABQJournal.com:
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham fired a game commissioner on Wednesday for failing to disclose that she’d worked on an outside persuasion campaign on the Mexican gray wolf.
Lujan Grisham removed Sabrina Pack from her seat representing District 2, after the governor learned of Pack’s “failure to disclose her conflict of interest as well as her failure to recuse herself from pertinent votes,” according to the governor’s spokeswoman Jodi McGinnis Porter.
From The CoastlandTimes.com:
RALEIGH – Nearly 40 years after the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service launched an innovative program to save the eastern red wolf from extinction, a nonprofit conservation group is challenging the agency’s prior decision to not upgrade to a more protective management designation, despite its outsized importance to the species’ survival.
From WRAL.com:
The Red Wolf Recovery Program on the North Carolina coast has confirmed the birth of four wild litters of red wolf pups on the Albemarle Peninsula.
From KUNC.org:
While Colorado’s wolf restoration has now seen 25 wolves released and four packs formed, one group in particular has dominated the discourse: the Copper Creek pack. The Vail Daily recently sat down with Jeff Davis, the director of Colorado Parks and Wildlife, to discuss all things wolves, including what’s been going on with the Copper Creek wolf pack.
From BrusselsTimes.com:
A so-called ‘problem wolf’ has attacked a six-year-old boy in the Netherlands, sparking safety concerns for ramblers. The boy was walking with his mother and younger brother in Den Treek nature reserve in Utrecht province when the incident happened.
From DailyMontanan.com:
A federal judge in Missoula on Tuesday vacated the federal government’s determination that gray wolves in the Western United States do not need increased federal protections under the Endangered Species Act.
Several coalitions of conservation groups, including several from Montana, filed lawsuits in federal district court last year against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in an attempt to force the agency to reapply ESA protections to the species.
The groups praised the decision from the federal district court in Montana as a step forward towards providing greater protection for the iconic species.
From CentralOregonDaily.com:
SISTERS, Ore. — Oregon’s annual wolf report was published last week, documenting the ongoing presence of a pack of wolves in the Metolius River basin. The wolves are near Camp Sherman, on Green Ridge and around Black Butte. It’s something to keep in mind when you are out there camping, fishing and hiking.
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