NRDC v. U.S. Department of the Interior et al. (Gray Wolf Delisting)

From NRDC.org:

The gray wolf is an iconic keystone species that was nearly decimated in the United States by widespread predator control programs and habitat and prey loss. While wolves have begun to make a comeback since receiving Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections in the 1970s, they are still a long way from recovered. And yet, over the last two decades, the federal government has made repeated, failed attempts to prematurely strip wolves of protections and remove them from the list of endangered species.

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[Arizona] Lawmaker sparks fierce controversy with proposed bill impacting wolves in US: ‘Would cause a massacre’

From Newsbreak.com:

A newly proposed bill would remove the Mexican gray wolf from the federal endangered species list. If approved, the bill would reverse years of protection and recovery efforts for this vulnerable species.

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Colorado Parks and Wildlife commission won’t direct agency to remove controversial wolf pack

From KUNC.org:

Colorado Parks and Wildlife commissioners during a special meeting on Monday declined to direct the agency to kill or relocate a reintroduced gray wolf pack that has caused controversy in Pitkin County.

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Lemhi [Idaho] man accused of falsifying where he killed wolves so he could get a larger bounty

From EastIdahoNews.com:

LEMHI– A Lemhi man has been criminally charged after he allegedly lied about where he killed wolves so he could receive larger bounties on them.

Brock Oliver has been charged with four counts of grand theft by deception. If found guilty, Oliver could spend up to 56 years in prison and pay a fine of up to $20,000.

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Crying wolf? Grant County [New Mexico] to consider resolution Thursday

From SCDailyPress.com:

A large portion of Tuesday’s Grant County Commission work session was devoted to what one commissioner called an anti-wolf resolution on Thursday’s meeting agenda. Catron and Socorro counties have each declared a disaster based on the incursion of reintroduced Mexican gray wolves in their territory, and have asked other counties to pass resolutions urging intervention from a variety of state and federal agencies on their behalf.

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FWP calls for higher wolf quotas, bag limits based on [Montana] report

From MissoulaCurrent.com:

The estimated number of wolves in Montana decreased slightly in 2024, but Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is proposing more wolf hunting and trapping to push the statewide population down to 450.

On Monday, FWP released its annual wolf report for 2024, which says the statewide wolf population was estimated at slightly less than 1,100 wolves at the end of 2024 while the previous year’s estimate was about 1,100. But because that number is an estimate based on a computer model that isn’t exact, the number could be as high as 1,240 and as low as 920.

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Onlooker captures unbelievable encounter between hikers and wolf pack: ‘They have no clue’

From TheCoolDown.com:

A pair of Yellowstone tourists averted potential disaster after obliviously hiking within mere yards of multiple wild wolves.

“They really don’t see that?” an offscreen voice asked incredulously in a video posted to Facebook showing the two hikers walking past the wolves.

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Feds close the door on a ‘national wolf conversation’

From EENews.net:

An ambitious “national wolf conversation” begun in the Biden administration has ended for now, although the voices can still be heard.

Convened under a three-year contract issued by the Fish and Wildlife Service, the wolf conversation ended up culminating a year early with a three-day session held last January in Tucson, Arizona. Now, some of the work is becoming available to the broader public with the release of brief participant commentaries, a 30-minute video and a “common ground” statement endorsed by all 22 of the nongovernmental participants in the January sessions.

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Road trips, bear spray and a full moon(ing): How we made the Howl podcast and story series

From IdahoCapitalSun.com:

Here’s the inside scoop on the behind the scenes reporting on wolves in the some of the most remote places in the Lower 48.

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A Closer Look at the Kestrels, Hedgehogs and Other Wild Animals That Inhabit Rome

From SmithsonianMag.org:

Long ago, the story goes, a king kidnapped two sons of a god, stuffed them in a basket and set them afloat on Italy’s Tiber River. A female wolf rescued the brothers and nursed them as though they were her own pups. A woodpecker brought them food. Nourished by these wild creatures, Romulus and Remus went on to overthrow the king and found Rome—a city whose mythological roots and documented history are both entangled with the animals who have crept, slithered, scurried and flown among its pillars and palaces for thousands of years.

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