Colorado Parks and Wildlife vows to do better job at round 2 of wolf reintroduction starting in January

From the Colorado Sun:

Colorado Parks and Wildlife is vowing to do a better job at wolf reintroduction ahead of the planned release of 15 gray wolves from British Columbia starting in January.

That’s according to a joint news release by CPW and the Colorado Department of Agriculture in which CPW director Jeff Davis said “staff and partners have been working hard, learning and adapting through the first year of restoration in Colorado” and that they’re “coming back with a stronger conflict minimization program” for the well-being of ranchers, their livestock and wolves.

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Canadian wildlife resort offers a night with wolves, experts warn against trend

From Straight Arrow News:

Parc Omega in Quebec, Canada, puts guests face-to-face with nature when they book a night at the park’s cabin. Some wildlife experts in Wyoming, meanwhile, say that such meetings between humans and wolves can cause negative impacts to the wild animals.

Imagine a pane of glass separating you from a pack of wolves. A wildlife preserve in Canada uses giant windows and sliding doors to give guests a look inside a wolves habitat.

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Colorado Range Rider program, which launches soon, seeks applicants to help keep wolves away from livestock

From Denver7.com:

The Colorado Range Rider program will launch in early 2025 and is seeking qualified applicants who can help ranchers keep gray wolves away from livestock.

Range riders support livestock producers by protecting herds from wolves, whether on horseback, foot or ATV. They can not only keep an eye out for wolves, but can deploy non-lethal deterrents to haze the wolves.

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Western New Mexico wolf sanctuary absorbs Colorado sanctuary

From DailyLobo.com:

Nestled in the grassy hills of western New Mexico in a community called Candy Kitchen is the Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary, a nonprofit that houses wolves, wolfdogs, New Guinea singing dogs, foxes and coyotes.

Founded in 1991 as The Candy Kitchen Wolf and Wolfdog Rescue Ranch, Wild Spirit is now in the process of absorbing the Indigo Mountain Nature Center, a nonprofit wolf and wildlife sanctuary based in Lake George, Colorado.

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Polis blames ranchers for high cost of wolf restoration at CCI meeting

From TheFencePost.com:

The state of Colorado is facing a $1 billion deficit in the 2025-26 budget and as cuts are considered, Gov. Jared Polis placed the blame for the $5 million wolf restoration on ranchers.

Colorado Counties, Inc., is comprised of county commissioners from 63 of 64 counties, Denver being the exception. Gov. Polis spoke to the group at their meeting earlier this week and, when asked about pausing upcoming wolf releases until a more cost-effective route than sourcing from Canada could be identified, the governor pointed the finger at ranchers.

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Wolf-induced ‘landscape of fear’ doesn’t explain Yellowstone aspen regeneration, study says

From The Spokesman-Review:

BILLINGS – For more than a decade a passionate debate has reverberated within Yellowstone National Park’s scientific community regarding wolf reintroduction.

Did wolves improve aspen growth by helping to reduce elk populations, called a density-mediated indirect effect ?

Or did the mere presence of wolves make elk so nervous they didn’t eat as many aspen, or avoided areas where they may have encountered wolves, called a trait-mediated indirect effect ?

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Lodges That Let People “Sleep With The Wolves” A Bad Idea, Wyoming Wildlife Experts Say

From CowboyStateDaily:

A Canada wildlife preserve offers rental lodges where people can gawk at a pack of wolves just on the other side of giant ground-level picture windows and sliding glass doors. It’s billed as an up close and personal wildlife experience. While an intriguing tourism draw, Wyoming wildlife experts say trying it with Wyoming’s national parks would be a terrible idea.

“I get nervous that something like that would give people a false sense of security or an unnatural sense of how wolves behave in the wild,” Kristin Barker, a Wyoming wildlife researcher, told Cowboy State Daily.

 

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Council of Europe investigates Swiss wolf policy

From SwissInfo.ch:

The Standing Committee of the Bern Convention in the Council of Europe has decided to initiate an investigation into Switzerland’s wolf-shooting policy. A complaint by two Swiss wolf conservation organisations has been upheld.

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Wolf populations in Spain ‘not out of the woods yet’: Europe votes to downgrade protection status of struggling predator

From the Olive Press:

WOLF populations in Spain have had their protection status downgraded after a Europe-wide vote by the Bern Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats.

Spain was one of only two member states in the EU to vote against the European Commission’s proposal to move wolves from a ‘strictly protected species’ to a ‘protected species.’

But since the other 25 members voted in favour, Spain’s vote at the Bern Convention was lost since the EU votes as a bloc.

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Wolf pups born

From presspubs.com:

Officials announced the birth of several gray wolf puppies April 27 at the Wildlife Science Center in Columbus.

The mother of these pups is the daughter of a wolf from Yellowstone National Park. The Wildlife Science Center is sharing two of the puppies with the International Wolf Center in Ely, Minn., in an effort to further wolf education in Minnesota and beyond. The remainder of the litter will stay at the Center.

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