From The Center Square:
A conservation group says a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resource plan to manage the state’s wolf population ignores input from thousands living with the consequences of an out-of-control population.
From The Guardian:
For centuries, wolves have roamed the mountain ranges of Andalucía in southern Spain, but after years of decline the creature has been officially declared extinct in the region.
From AP News:
Wisconsin wildlife officials released a revised draft wolf management plan Tuesday that recommends holding the statewide population at around 1,000 animals, a concession to conservatives looking for a hard limit.
From My Modern Met:
The annual survey has catalogued moose and wolf populations in the National Park for decades. Isle Royale National Park is a beautiful main island surrounded by many smaller islands. In the park live a largely isolated population of wolves, moose, foxes, and other creatures. Each winter Michigan Technological University researchers camp out for seven weeks in snow-surrounded tents. This year, the researchers were on the island from January 20 to March 3, 2023. They carefully tracked, photographed, and investigated the animal inhabitants of the island.
From the Colorado Sun:
Over the course of a few years, 30 to 50 gray wolves are supposed to be introduced west of the Continental Divide. The working group advising CPW on the plan recommended using gray wolves captured from several different packs in the Northern Rockies of Idaho or Montana, or from sites in Oregon and Washington. The states are so far reluctant to help.
From Statesman Journal:
Gray wolves once roamed these forests and canyons, patrolling cliffs above the ocean and hunting deep ravines for deer and elk before European Americans blitzed the predators using guns and poison, exterminating them by 1920. More than a century later, wolves are quietly returning to Oregon’s oceanside forests and communities.
From Georgetown Times:
Three red wolves now prowl the four grassy acres of Red Wolf Ridge, and Brookgreen hopes to have more on hand in the future with the introduction of a breeding program. The species is designated as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimates that only about three dozen still exist in the wild, with another 278 in captivity.
From Billings Gazette:
Wolf advocates say the agency, under the direction of the Republican-dominated Legislature, has declared a war on the big canines by extending seasons to last six months and allowing more ways to kill wolves. On the other side of the issue, one of the lawmakers who helped usher in legislation to increase wolf hunting and trapping opportunities is worried FWP may ease the wolf harvest.
From Grandview Outdoors:
The Idaho Fish and Game Commission has unanimously approved a new wolf management plan, outlining goals and strategies to manage the population to fluctuate at about 500 wolves. The wolf plan drew roughly 2,500 comments during a 32-day public comment period, which will shape Idaho’s wolf management over the next six years. The plan was approved in the commission’s May 11 meeting.
From Tomahawk Leader:
On Monday, July 24, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) said the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Wildlife Services verified that wolves killed a Redbone trailing hound in the Town of Merrill.
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.