From Statesman Examiner:
The following report was presented by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) during the monthly wolf report, and provides an overview of gray wolf conservation and management activities in Washington during June 2024.
From Axios Seattle:
Gray wolves are making a recovery in Washington, according to the state Department of Fish & Wildlife (WDFW), and a vote slated for Friday could see members of the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission downlisting wolves from an “endangered” to a “sensitive” species.
From Capital Press:
The Couse wolf pack in southeast Washington has attacked two calves and one cow and probably attacked another cow, pushing the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife to consider killing one or two wolves.
An adult male in the pack in Asotin County was killed July 8 while reportedly chasing livestock. The department is investigating. Under the state’s caught-in-the-act law, ranchers can shoot wolves threatening livestock.
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From MLive:
ISLE ROYALE, MI – The National Park Service has announced new food storage guidelines for Isle Royale’s visitors and overnight campers to try to solve an issue with the island’s wolves accessing human food and garbage.
This activity is happening around the island’s Rock Harbor, where the visitor center is located, and in campgrounds on the east end of the island, park staff said Saturday. The new guidelines – meant to ensure safety for people as well as wildlife – come about a month after rangers cautioned the public that more frequent wolf sightings were taking place in those areas.
From NL Times:
The wolf that attacked a leashed dog on an estate in Leusden last Saturday has shown natural behavior, according to experts. The province of Utrecht says that there is no question of a so-called problem wolf. The province assumes that the dog was attacked by one of the parents of wolf cubs.
“There was natural predatory behavior in which wolves see dogs as a threat and humans in principle not,” according to the answers of the provincial executive board to written questions from the VVD and BBB. “However, it is incredibly sad for the owner and anyone concerned about the wolf’s presence. According to experts, the wolf in the incident on July 6 displayed natural behavior.”
From Nature:
One summer evening in 2004, around the campfire during a rock climbing trip to the Red River Gorge in Kentucky, Doug Benn, a glaciologist at the University of St Andrews, UK, shared a photo with Jason Gulley. It was a picture of a 6-metre-deep hole, shaped like an upside down ‘L’ in the walls of the Khumbu Glacier, the highest glacier in the world at an altitude of 7,600 m on the southwestern slopes of Mount Everest in Nepal. Then a final-year undergraduate geology student at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Gulley thought that the hole’s shape looked like the result of meltwater drainage, which hinted that long, intricate caves can form and melt in glaciers. But, it would be impossible to work out exactly how those processes happen without getting inside these voids.
From Cowboy State Daily:
Outrage over a Daniel resident reportedly running a wolf down with a snowmobile continues to reverberate with an anticipated bipartisan U.S. House bill aimed at banning such acts.
The Snowmobiles Aren’t Weapons (SAW) Act is expected to be introduced soon by U.S. Reps. Don Davis, D-North Carolina, and Troy Nehls, R-Texas.
Fr0m Spokane Public Radio:
With a controversial vote planned next week on whether to loosen protections for wolves in Washington, wildlife advocates are raising alarm that officials could be relying on flawed wolf count figures from a tribe in the northeast corner of the state.
Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission members have been told by agency staff that wolves have made an impressive recovery — to the point that their “endangered” status is no longer required. The state’s latest population report recorded an increase of 44 wolves last year, the largest in state history.
From Wyoming Public Media:
Animal welfare and conservation groups are suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to get gray wolves back on the Endangered Species List. This comes as the Cowboy State is thinking about changing how it manages predatory animals.
Animal Wellness Action, the Center for a Humane Economy and Project Coyote are among the groups suing the federal government. They say states like Wyoming liberalized the legal killings of wolves, which is why they must be protected.
From Phys.org:
Humans drove wolves to extinction in Washington state around the 1930s. Thanks to conservation efforts, by about 80 years later, wolves had returned—crossing first from the Canadian border into Washington around 2008 and later entering the state from Idaho. Since then, wolf numbers in Washington have been steadily growing, raising questions about what the return of this large predator species means for ecosystems and people alike.
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