Wyoming Game and Fish share proposed updates to annual wolf hunting regulations

From Aspen Public Radio:

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) has held meetings around the state on proposed updates to wolf hunting regulations in northwest Wyoming. These regulations are updated annually. Earlier this week, state wildlife officials presented the data and guidelines that inform their regulations aimed at keeping gray wolf populations healthy at Teton County Library in Jackson.

Scattered dot graphs and trend lines illustrated the various calculations WGFD uses to set mortality limits — the number of wolves that can be legally killed — in 14 different designated hunting boundaries in northwest Wyoming.

 

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Have Wolves Returned Yellowstone to its Natural State?

From Mountain Journal:

Yellowstone National Park looks different than it did 30 years ago. That much everyone can agree upon. How different? And who or what is responsible for that change? The answer is where scientific opinion seems to diverge.
Most everyone has heard the story of the term “trophic cascade.” Most of us have seen the video. It has 45 million views on YouTube, in addition to frequently making the rounds on Facebook.

Fishing with wolves: New exhibit explores what the predators eat in summer

From MPR News:

A new exhibit at the International Wolf Center in Ely explores how wolves survive during the summer months, a tougher time to bring down their usual prey.

Titled “Starvation, Adaptation and Survival — Insights from the Voyageurs Wolf Project,” the exhibit showcases research from the University of Minnesota.

In summer, researchers say wolves must expend extra effort to feed themselves and their pups.

 

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Ranchers, ODFW gather in Wallowa County to talk wolves

From The Observer:

ENTERPRISE — A small gathering of ranchers, police and representatives of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife resulted in increased understanding of Northeast Oregon’s problem of wolf-livestock conflicts Tuesday, May 21.

About a half-dozen ranchers and the same number of ODFW officials, along with Wallowa County Sheriff Ryan Moody and Sheriff’s Sgt. Paul Pagano, gathered at the food booth of the Wallowa County Fairgrounds to learn more about what the state is doing to manage wolves particularly in Wallowa County, where the bulk of wolf attacks on livestock appear to occur.

 

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National wolf advocates are met with stock trailers and frustrated locals in Daniel

From Wyoming Public Media:

On Sunday morning the sleepy town of Daniel, Wyoming, population 108, was anything but. The single lane highway through town was lined bumper to bumper with trucks, livestock trailers, semis and hundreds of people.

This was the local response to a weeks-long publicized arrival of a motorcycle brigade of wolf advocates. ‘Hogs for Hope’, which originated in Texas, promised to raise money to bring change to Wyoming’s wolf laws, which they say are insufficient. That’s because earlier this year, Cody Roberts, of Daniel, captured and brought a live, muzzled and allegedly injured wolf into a local bar, later killing it. He was fined $250 by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department for possessing the live animal.

 

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CPW confirms wolf killed Jackson County calf; another killed by exhaustion

From Fox News 31:

DENVER (KDVR) — A calf was killed in Jackson County on May 25, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife, and a wolf is to blame.

Further details from CPW were not available on Monday, but Steamboat Radio reported that a rancher suspects a wolf got one of his calves. CPW is working to determine if the calf’s death was due to a reintroduced wolf, or a wolf that has migrated to the state naturally.

 

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Culling controversy as French wolf population falls in 2023

From Phys.org:

The estimated number of wolves in France last year was 1,003, down nine percent from the year before, environmental associations said Thursday, urging the French government to lower its quota for the number of the animals which can be killed each year.

The drop in the predator’s population is the first in almost ten years, according to loupfrance.fr, a site managed by France’s biodiversity authority.

 

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Girl researches for 3 years to prove specimen is Japanese wolf

From Asahi Shimbun:

TSUKUBA, Ibaraki Prefecture–Hinako Komori quickly recognized that a stuffed specimen at a museum storehouse was likely a long-extinct Japanese wolf. But the elementary school girl faced difficulty trying to convince adults of her theory.

It took Komori, now a 13-year-old second-year junior high school student in Tokyo, more than three years to get the science world to confirm the animal was indeed the sixth known specimen of the long-lost wolf.

 

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Lawmakers to consider changes to predator species laws

From Wyoming Public Radio:

Wyoming lawmakers are considering possible changes to state laws about predator species management.

This comes after global outrage over a Sublette County man captured a live wolf, brought it into a home and bar, and later killed the animal.

Members of the Joint Interim Travel, Recreation, Wildlife & Cultural Resources Committee recently discussed if there should be stricter laws around the treatment of predatory animals. They agreed to form a subcommittee to consider possible changes that could be introduced during next year’s legislative session.

 

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Bill to delist gray wolf passes the House

From Oscoda Press:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Trust the Science Act, a bill that Representative Jack Bergman cosponsored, recently passed the House of Representatives. The legislation will permanently delist the gray wolf in the lower 48 states, return control of wolf conservation to the individual states, and ensure this decision is not subject to judicial review.

“The gray wolf population has successfully recovered, and it’s time to trust the years of scientific evidence which show that wolf management can be best left to folks in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan,” said Bergman. “States are better equipped to manage our gray wolf populations than the federal government, and I’m proud to have cosponsored this important legislation.”

 

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