From the ColoradoSun.com:
At least one more litter of wolf pups has been born in Colorado, state wildlife officials confirmed Thursday.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife biologists are watching four dens and have seen pups and started to count them, spokesman Travis Duncan said. He did not release a number of pups or say whether all four dens under observation are confirmed to have pups.
From Smithsonianmag.org:
The animals that plummeted 85 feet into Wyoming’s Natural Trap Cave provide a layered history of life dating back to the Pleistocene.
From VailDaily.com:
Western Slope ranchers and elected officials urged Colorado Parks and Wildlife and its commission on Thursday to take more aggressive action in mitigating the impacts of the Copper Creek wolf pack on local livestock operations.
The Copper Creek pack was recently tied to four livestock attacks in eight days at ranches in Piktin County, leading Parks and Wildlife to kill one of the pack’s male yearlings. The attacks took place at McCabe Ranch at Old Snowmass, Crystal River Ranch and Lost Marbles Ranch.
From CBSNews.com:
On the California-Oregon border, in the shadow of Mount Shasta, Axel Hunnicutt, state wolf coordinator for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, is on the hunt for the gray wolf.
“Because it is potentially a kill site, we will be, you know, kind of cautious,” Hunnicutt told CBS News.
Once nearly extinct in the United States, wolves are making a comeback in California.
From DiscoverMagazine.com:
A domestic dog or a wolf? The difference seems easy enough to spot today, but the distinction was not always so evident. For years, scientists struggled to determine whether a pair of frozen puppies from around 14,000 years ago were early domestic dogs or wolves. Now, a new analysis could bring this debate to a close, confirming that the frozen pups were probably not early domestic dogs, but wolves, based on the animals’ bones, teeth, and soft tissues.
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From GJSentinel.com:
The director of Colorado Parks and Wildlife on Wednesday defended the agency’s handling of a wolf pack in the Roaring Fork Valley after criticism was leveled by an agency commissioner who also is a rancher there.
The discussion occurred during the Parks and Wildlife Commission’s meeting in Glenwood Springs after Parks and Wildlife recently killed a wolf from what’s known as the Copper Creek pack. The agency had determined that local livestock producers had experienced chronic wolf-related depredation involving cattle.
From Buckrail.com:
JACKSON, Wyo. — On June 7, wildlife cinematographer Jake Davis premiered footage of a wolf pack feeding on an elk carcass in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE).
Davis came across a bull elk that died after being hunted by wolves last winter, according to his press release. He then set up a network of 10 remote cameras in hopes of capturing animals coming to feed on the carcass.
From ColoradoPolitics.com:
While Wednesday’s agenda for the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission didn’t include an update on the wolf program, that didn’t stop commissioners from bringing up the most recent rash of problems from reintroducing the apex predators.
The conversation that followed showed the frustration commissioners are experiencing over the wolf reintroduction program, the public feedback and media scrutiny.
From 9News.com:
DENVER — As Colorado Parks and Wildlife staff monitors wolf dens, CPW staff have seen new wolf pups.
“CPW staff have confirmed sightings of pups. We continue to monitor dens through direct observations from CPW staff, as well as indirect methods such as trail cameras and public sighting reports,” A CPW spokesperson told 9NEWS.
CPW is watching four wolf dens for pups, but the state does not know how many there are.
From WyoFile.com:
Biologist Ken Mills sensed a shrewdness and smarts in Wolf 840M, a gray male canine that lived longer than any of the other 1,500-plus Wyoming wolves that have been ID’d and tracked since the species was reintroduced to the state three decades ago.
First captured and collared as a 1-year-old living west of Cody in the Ishawooa Pack in April 2012, Wolf 840M had a way of escaping detection and threats for the dozen-plus years that followed.
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