From ColoradoNewsline.com:
With the third winter “release season” in Colorado’s gray wolf reintroduction plan just weeks away, state wildlife officials are scrambling to find a source for additional relocated wolves.
A deal to source up to 15 animals from British Columbia is in doubt after the federal government, under pressure from livestock groups and conservative activists, ordered Colorado Parks and Wildlife not to import Canadian wolves. Officials in the Republican-controlled states of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, home to large and well-established wolf populations, have made it clear that they won’t help Colorado’s restoration efforts.
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A wolf raided a crab trap. Was it tool use or just canine cunning?
From ScienceNews.org:
One damp spring evening last year, a wolf hauled a crab trap ashore off the central Pacific coast of British Columbia. The rangy animal made a delectable meal of the bait inside, and unknowingly launched a healthy debate about her feat.
The gray wolf (Canis lupus) had been recorded on a motion-triggered camera installed by environmental wardens — known as Guardians — from the Haíɫzaqv Nation Indigenous community. The wolf’s trap-pulling behavior may be the first evidence of tool use by a wild canid, researchers report November 17 in Ecology and Evolution.
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Inside the courtroom for the first hearing on Wyoming’s wolf cruelty case
From WyomingPublicRadio:
The man who brought a wolf into a bar in Daniel after allegedly running it down with a snowmobile nearly two years ago made his first public comments this past Monday.
Cody Roberts pleaded not guilty at a virtual arraignment for a felony charge of animal cruelty.
Wyoming Public Radio’s Caitlin Tan was in the Sublette County Courthouse and spoke to Managing Editor Nicky Ouellet.
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Yellowstone Wolves Thrive Inside the Park — but Here’s Why Many Don’t Survive After Crossing the Border
From GreenMatters.com:
Yellowstone National Park is home to several wild animals. Tourists are allowed to spot them only from a distance to ensure their safety and the animals’ protection. The national park goes above and beyond to ensure the wildlife is protected. However, it can only control what’s happening within the premises or the “Yellowstone bubble.” Once the wild animals step beyond the protective boundaries of the park, they enter a no-where zone which houses several other animals.
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How Wolves Became Yellowstone’s $82 Million Tourist Attraction
From OutsideOnline.com:
More wolves equals more wolf watchers, but is that a good thing?
Colorado running out of options for new source of wolves after Washington rejects request
From ColoradoNewsline.com:
With the third winter “release season” in Colorado’s gray wolf reintroduction plan just weeks away, state wildlife officials are scrambling to find a source for additional relocated wolves.
A deal to source up to 15 animals from British Columbia is in doubt after the federal government, under pressure from livestock groups and conservative activists, ordered Colorado Parks and Wildlife not to import Canadian wolves. Officials in the Republican-controlled states of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, home to large and well-established wolf populations, have made it clear that they won’t help Colorado’s restoration efforts.
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Washington declines to give Colorado gray wolves for reintroduction program
From Fox21News.com:
DENVER (KDVR) — Colorado will not receive gray wolves this winter for its reintroduction program from Washington, the coastal state’s Fish and Wildlife Service Commission voted Saturday.
The commission voted 8-1 not to relocate wolves to Colorado, citing its own gray wolf reintroduction efforts and a recent commission determination that gray wolves remain an endangered population in the state.
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What happens when wolves leave Yellowstone
From WyoFile.com:
If not for a series of tones broadcasting her location, no one would’ve known she had died.
Like dozens of other Yellowstone National Park wolves involved in a three-decade-long study, researchers collared wolf 1331F as a pup in 2021 to track her movements. Gray with ribbons of brown fur fading into her pale muzzle and legs, the young wolf lived with the Wapiti Lake Pack, one of the largest in Yellowstone.
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741 [Dutch] livestock attacked by wolves in 2025, Gelderland most affected
From NLTimes.nl:
This year, wolf attacks on Dutch livestock have surged to nearly match the total for all of 2024. Through the first nine months of 2025, 714 attacks on sheep and other animals were confirmed, compared with 770 attacks last year.
Early October data, though incomplete, show at least 27 more attacks in the first week alone, bringing the confirmed total for 2025 to 741, according to ANP analysis of BIJ12 figures, the organization that manages wolf-related matters for the provinces.
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Greg Lopez says Colorado Parks and Wildlife could face “enforcement action” for Endangered Species Act violations
From ColoradoSun.com:
A former congressman and 2026 Republican gubernatorial candidate is continuing to claim Colorado Parks and Wildlife broke federal laws when the agency transported wolves from Canada into the United States last winter, and that officials who participated in the effort could face “enforcement action” if they don’t provide permits proving the federal government authorized the imports.
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Doggie diversity in size and shape began at least 11,000 years ago
From Reuters.com: