From WyomingNewsNow.tv:
Cheyenne, Wyo. – Sophomore representative Andrew Byron’s appointment to chair the House Travel, Recreation, Wildlife and Cultural Resources Committee was a real honor. The new authority also came with a readymade controversy.
In taking the helm at the outset of the session, Byron inherited a controversial bill set in motion by a Wyoming man’s decision to strike an adolescent wolf with a snowmobile, muzzle and collar it, then parade the badly wounded animal through a Sublette County bar for hours. Global outrage ensued and hadn’t abated last fall, when the previous configuration of the Travel, Recreation and Wildlife Committee signed off on a bill that explicitly sanctioned the practice of recreationally running over wildlife with snowmobiles but stiffened penalties for keeping struck, wounded animals alive.
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Bills targeting predator torture, snowmobile hunting could make infamous wolf stunt a felony
From WyomingNewsNow.tv:
Cheyenne, Wyo. – Sophomore representative Andrew Byron’s appointment to chair the House Travel, Recreation, Wildlife and Cultural Resources Committee was a real honor. The new authority also came with a readymade controversy.
In taking the helm at the outset of the session, Byron inherited a controversial bill set in motion by a Wyoming man’s decision to strike an adolescent wolf with a snowmobile, muzzle and collar it, then parade the badly wounded animal through a Sublette County bar for hours. Global outrage ensued and hadn’t abated last fall, when the previous configuration of the Travel, Recreation and Wildlife Committee signed off on a bill that explicitly sanctioned the practice of recreationally running over wildlife with snowmobiles but stiffened penalties for keeping struck, wounded animals alive.
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White-Tailed Deer: Their Effects on Michigan
From The Echo:
The population of white-tailed deer in the Southern Peninsula of Michigan has been fluctuating for years. After nearly going extinct in the late 1800s due to excessive hunting, the white-tailed deer population has now exponentially grown to 2 million in 1989. Growing by 1.5 million in less than 20 years, according to the Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) “White-Tailed Deer: Species Management” publication.
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CT’s Beardsley Zoo Welcomes Critically Endangered Wolf & Barn Owl
From News.Hamlethub.com:
Bridgeport, CT – Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo (CBZ) is excited to welcome Ranger, a male American Red Wolf, to our animal family. Ranger joins us from the National Zoo as part of the Species Survival Plan (SSP), a vital program dedicated to protecting and preserving critically endangered species like the American Red Wolf.
Ranger is two and half years old and joins Taylor, our resident female red wolf. Although Taylor is no longer part of the breeding population, Ranger’s presence ensures she has a companion while continuing her vital role in inspiring guests to care about wildlife conservation.
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Chewed over 25 years, wolf center upgrades are finally approved [Lewisboro, New York]
From Newsbreak.com:
It took a quarter of a century to achieve but major changes to the Wolf Conservation Center have finally been approved by the Lewisboro Planning Board. The board voted unanimously Jan. 21 to approve changes at the private nature preserve, located at 7 Buck Run, South Salem.
The WCC received site development plan approval, special use permit approval, wetland activity permit approval and stormwater permit approval.
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19 Books About Wolves
From The Revelator.org:
These howling good books examine how we’ve persecuted wolves, how we’ve helped to restore them, and how they embody humanity’s relationship with nature.
Wolves are one of the defining wildlife species of the 21st century — if not every century — of human existence. Relentlessly persecuted, uniquely inspirational, and endlessly adaptive, wolves embody our relationship with nature: We love it, we fear it; we worship it, we denigrate it; we depend on it; we destroy it.
It’s no wonder so many authors in recent years have turned to wolves to examine the biggest issues of the day.
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Colorado Wolf Map Shows Animals Traveling Further Than Ever Before
From Newsweek.com:
A female gray wolf traveled in watersheds—alongside natural water sources such as rivers and streams—in Chaffee, Park and Fremont counties in January, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s monthly tracking map, released on Wednesday.
This is further southeast than any of the state’s collared wolves have ventured, The Denver Post reported. All other wolves seemingly remained in and around Summit, Grand, Jackson, Routt and Garfield counties.
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Anderson: Wolves more likely to be delisted under Trump, but whether deer numbers increase is uncertain
From The Minnesota Star Tribune:
President Donald Trump didn’t mention wolves in his inauguration speech on Monday. But that doesn’t mean change isn’t coming in the way these apex predators are managed.
With the help of the Republican-controlled Congress, such a change is possible, if not probable. Whether deer numbers in northern Minnesota increase as a result, addressing the frustrations of whitetail hunters in that part of the state, is another question.
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Czechia growls at Slovakia in wolf hunting row
From Euractiv.com:
Slovakia’s decision to reintroduce wolf hunting has outraged Czechia, who fear it could endanger the wolf population of the Beskid Mountains, which stretches from Czechia to Slovakia, as well as violate EU rules.
Wolves are still protected in Czechia and are also covered by the EU’s Habitats Directive. Czechia included them on its national list of protected species under the directive, which is not the case in Slovakia, meaning any wolves straying across the border are at risk of being killed.
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Bills seek to ramp up wolf killing in Montana
From MissoulaCurrent.com:
The two of first three wolf bills heard in the 2025 Legislature would mandate more drastic measures in order to drive Montana’s wolf population down to a minimum not seen since the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service first tried to delist the wolf in 2008.
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Colorado’s wolves could be east of the Continental Divide for the first time
From KVDR.com:
DENVER (KDVR) — Colorado’s wolf population now has 29 members, according to state officials, and one of the population members is “exploring” a watershed in what Colorado Parks and Wildlife called southeastern Colorado.
On Wednesday, the state released its first monthly movement map since the release of 15 Canadian gray wolves and the five surviving members of the Copper Creek pack. The 20 wolves were released into Eagle and Pitkin counties between Jan. 12 and 18 and were released both north and south of Interstate 70.
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