From The Arizona Daily Sun:
DENVER — Colorado lawmakers will consider blocking from public record the names of ranchers seeking compensation from the state for livestock killed by wolves and other wild animals after multiple livestock owners said they feared harassment.
The bipartisan legislation, Senate Bill 38, would make the names, addresses and contact information confidential and not subject to the Colorado Open Records Act.
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From CraigDailyPress.com:
Gray wolves could be removed from the federal Endangered Species Act under a bill reintroduced by Republican U.S. Reps. Lauren Boebert of Colorado and Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin on Friday.
The Pet and Livestock Protection Act would restore a 2020 rule from the first Trump administration — which was later repealed by a federal district court in 2022 — and turn management of gray wolves back to the states. It includes a provision to ensure the action is not subject to judicial review.
Boebert and Tiffany also introduced the act last Congress session. While it passed the House of Representatives, it failed to make it through the Senate.
From Kronen Zeitung:
The wolf is back, but the rural population’s joy is limited. Provincial Councillor for Agriculture Michaela Langer-Weninger wants to use monitoring to create a basis for sustainable management measures. The aim is to prove the favorable conservation status of the wolf population and to accelerate the downgrading of its protected status at European level.
From CourthouseNews.com:
PHOENIX [AZ] — Conservationists asked the Ninth Circuit Monday to order the U.S. Forest Service to reconsider the potential impacts of a large-scale grazing project on the continued recovery and survival of the Mexican gray wolf.
In a Phoenix courtroom Monday morning, the Western Watersheds Project told a three-judge panel that cattle grazing in the Greater Gila Bioregion — an area spanning the central portion of the Arizona-New Mexico border that is home to at least 26 sensitive species — could threaten the recovery of the endangered Mexican gray wolf, whose population has increased to more than 200 since dropping to just seven wolves in the 1980s.
From KKCO11News.com:
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO) – A gray wolf is now roaming the Mesa County area.
Reports were initially made to our newsroom on Feb. 3rd of a wolf spotted in Glade Park, we reached out to Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) to confirm if these reports were true. CPW confirmed that collared gray wolf data shows activity in the western portion of Mesa County.
“This was to be expected, and it’s important to remember wolves can and do move substantial distances.” said a CPW Official.
From Wisconsin Public Radio:
Wisconsin U.S. House Rep. Tom Tiffany and GOP lawmakers have reintroduced a bill to remove federal protections for gray wolves across most of the country.
Tiffany, R-Minocqua, co-sponsored the legislation with Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado along with 30 other lawmakers, including Wisconsin’s Republican congressional delegation. If approved, the plan would remove Endangered Species Act protection from around 4,400 wolves found in the Great Lakes region, as well as nearly 2,800 wolves in seven western states.
From MontanaRightNow.com:
One bill aiming to create an unlimited wolf hunting quota met its end on the House floor Thursday.
From CowboyStateDaily:
Wyoming’s stray cats could end up benefiting from a push to protect wolves from torture, and some advocate for controlling feral cats’ numbers through spaying or neutering rather than shooting them. Feral cats have the same classification of “predatory animals” as wolves in much of the state.
Outrage over the alleged torture of wolf last year near Daniel, Wyoming, inspired efforts to give predatory animals more protection. That includes a bill that would require predatory animals to be killed quickly, rather than being subjected to prolonged suffering.
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From PortugalResident.com:
The government has given the ICNF (Institute for Nature Conservation and Forests) three months to present a proposal for the 2025-2035 Pack Programme, for the preservation of the Iberian wolf population in Portugal.
A dispatch published today in state gazette Diário da República states that the development of the programme “must be based on the evaluation and updating of the Action Plan for the Conservation of the Wolf in Portugal”, from 2017, which has not had “the expected success”.
From KTVH.com:
HELENA — On Thursday, Montana lawmakers debated legislation that would allow unlimited wolf hunting across the state until the population was reduced to a threshold of 650 animals statewide. The measure ultimately failed on a bipartisan vote.
House Bill 222, sponsored by Rep. Lukas Schubert, R-Kalispell, would have required the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission to create an open wolf hunting season. The season would have continued until the statewide wolf population was reduced to below 650 wolves. An amended provision allowed FWP to pause the hunting of wolves in May and June when the animals are denning and giving birth to young.
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