From Wisconsin Public Radio:
Wisconsin U.S. House Rep. Tom Tiffany and GOP lawmakers have reintroduced a bill to remove federal protections for gray wolves across most of the country.
Tiffany, R-Minocqua, co-sponsored the legislation with Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado along with 30 other lawmakers, including Wisconsin’s Republican congressional delegation. If approved, the plan would remove Endangered Species Act protection from around 4,400 wolves found in the Great Lakes region, as well as nearly 2,800 wolves in seven western states.
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Monitoring to help manage the wolf better [Austria]
From Kronen Zeitung:
The wolf is back, but the rural population’s joy is limited. Provincial Councillor for Agriculture Michaela Langer-Weninger wants to use monitoring to create a basis for sustainable management measures. The aim is to prove the favorable conservation status of the wolf population and to accelerate the downgrading of its protected status at European level.
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Grazing project could burden endangered wolves, conservationists tell Ninth Circuit
From CourthouseNews.com:
PHOENIX — Conservationists asked the Ninth Circuit Monday to order the U.S. Forest Service to reconsider the potential impacts of a large-scale grazing project on the continued recovery and survival of the Mexican gray wolf.
In a Phoenix courtroom Monday morning, the Western Watersheds Project told a three-judge panel that cattle grazing in the Greater Gila Bioregion — an area spanning the central portion of the Arizona-New Mexico border that is home to at least 26 sensitive species — could threaten the recovery of the endangered Mexican gray wolf, whose population has increased to more than 200 since dropping to just seven wolves in the 1980s.
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CPW confirms gray wolf has traveled to western Mesa County
From KKCO11News.com:
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO) – A gray wolf is now roaming the Mesa County area.
Reports were initially made to our newsroom on Feb. 3rd of a wolf spotted in Glade Park, we reached out to Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) to confirm if these reports were true. CPW confirmed that collared gray wolf data shows activity in the western portion of Mesa County.
“This was to be expected, and it’s important to remember wolves can and do move substantial distances.” said a CPW Official.
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US Rep. Tom Tiffany and GOP lawmakers bring back bill to delist gray wolf
From Wisconsin Public Radio:
Wisconsin U.S. House Rep. Tom Tiffany and GOP lawmakers have reintroduced a bill to remove federal protections for gray wolves across most of the country.
Tiffany, R-Minocqua, co-sponsored the legislation with Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado along with 30 other lawmakers, including Wisconsin’s Republican congressional delegation. If approved, the plan would remove Endangered Species Act protection from around 4,400 wolves found in the Great Lakes region, as well as nearly 2,800 wolves in seven western states.
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House dumps one wolf bill, advances one to expand wolf hunting
From MontanaRightNow.com:
One bill aiming to create an unlimited wolf hunting quota met its end on the House floor Thursday.
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Like Wolves, Wyoming’s Stray Cats Aren’t Protected From Torture
From CowboyStateDaily:
Wyoming’s stray cats could end up benefiting from a push to protect wolves from torture, and some advocate for controlling feral cats’ numbers through spaying or neutering rather than shooting them. Feral cats have the same classification of “predatory animals” as wolves in much of the state.
Outrage over the alleged torture of wolf last year near Daniel, Wyoming, inspired efforts to give predatory animals more protection. That includes a bill that would require predatory animals to be killed quickly, rather than being subjected to prolonged suffering.
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Government wants preservation plan for Portugal’s wolves that works
From PortugalResident.com:
The government has given the ICNF (Institute for Nature Conservation and Forests) three months to present a proposal for the 2025-2035 Pack Programme, for the preservation of the Iberian wolf population in Portugal.
A dispatch published today in state gazette Diário da República states that the development of the programme “must be based on the evaluation and updating of the Action Plan for the Conservation of the Wolf in Portugal”, from 2017, which has not had “the expected success”.
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Montana House votes down bill aimed at significantly reducing wolf population
From KTVH.com:
HELENA — On Thursday, Montana lawmakers debated legislation that would allow unlimited wolf hunting across the state until the population was reduced to a threshold of 650 animals statewide. The measure ultimately failed on a bipartisan vote.
House Bill 222, sponsored by Rep. Lukas Schubert, R-Kalispell, would have required the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission to create an open wolf hunting season. The season would have continued until the statewide wolf population was reduced to below 650 wolves. An amended provision allowed FWP to pause the hunting of wolves in May and June when the animals are denning and giving birth to young.
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Mushers and dogs braved a horrific Alaska winter to deliver lifesaving serum 100 years ago
From 2News.com:
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome faced a bleak winter. It was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and unrelenting blizzards, and under siege from a contagious disease known as the “strangling angel” for the way it suffocated children.
Now, 100 years later, Nome is remembering its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers who raced for more than five days through hypothermia, frostbite, gale-force winds and blinding whiteouts to deliver life-saving serum and free the community from the grip of diphtheria.
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Colorado lawmakers advance bill to block names of ranchers who file for compensation for wolf attacks
From The Aspen Times: