From Elk Horn Media Group:
WALLOWA COUNTY — The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) has extended limited duration permits for livestock producers near Lostine, allowing them to continue efforts to remove a chronically depredating wolf until August 31. The permits, which were originally set to expire on July 31, have been extended due to ongoing depredation issues in the area.
The permits were initially issued following multiple wolf attacks on livestock in the southern portion of the Sled Springs Wildlife Management Unit (WMU) and the northern portion of the Minam WMU. Since May, local producers have reported three confirmed depredations and two probable attacks on their livestock, which led ODFW to authorize the removal of two wolves from the area.
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Indian authorities capture one in pack of killer wolves
From VOA News:
Authorities in India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state Thursday said they captured one of what is believed to be a pack of wolves that have killed at least seven people in recent weeks, including six children, in the state’s Bahraich district.
In a video provided by the state forestry department, a small wolf can be seen in a cage as people gathered around it. Officials said the wolf was later tranquilized and taken to a local zoo.
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Wolf expert says Colorado’s plan to capture and relocate wolves should not be considered nonlethal
From 9News:
Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials are attempting to do something two wolf experts say could be without precedent: Relocating wolves twice within nine months.
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Wolf wanders into Rocky Mountain National Park for first confirmed time in park history
From Colorad0an:
For the first time in Rocky Mountain National Park history, a wolf has been confirmed in its boundaries.
The latest Colorado wolf activity map indicates a released wolf was in the park between July 23 and Aug. 25, Colorado Parks and Wildlife announced on its map page Wednesday.
“A collared gray wolf reintroduced in December spent some time inside the boundaries of Rocky Mountain National Park,” the state wildlife agency’s update read.
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Montana wolf trapping case headed to trial amid dispute over grizzly bear threat
From Courthouse News Service:
(CN) — After his order limiting wolf trapping and snaring in Montana’s grizzly bear territory survived the scrutiny of a Ninth Circuit panel this past April, Chief U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy denied conservation groups’ motion for summary judgment in the case.
Molloy, a Bill Clinton appointee, wrote in a 30-page order that there are still material questions of fact in the case that are best answered at a bench trial, which is scheduled to begin Dec. 2.
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Colorado’s new wolf pack — including pups — to be captured and relocated after livestock depredations
From The Denver Post:
Colorado wildlife officials are relocating two reintroduced wolves and their pups after a series of livestock depredations — a setback for the historic and controversial reintroduction program launched late last year.
The pack of wolves, called the Copper Creek pack, will be captured from the wild in Grand County, Colorado Parks and Wildlife announced Tuesday night. The agency did not disclose where the pack will be moved to, citing the need to protect the wolves and CPW staff.
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Traveling Wolf Center Coming to the Hanson Nature Center
From KIOW:
The Friends of Winnebago County Conservation Foundation, in conjunction with the Winnebago
County Conservation Board, will be hosting a traveling exhibit at the Hanson Nature Center during the month of September. The exhibit is entitled, “Wolves and Wild Lands” and comes from the International Wolf Center in Ely, MN. The display will be open to the public throughout the month.
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ODFW extends wolf removal permits near Lostine after continued attacks
From Elk Horn Media Group:
WALLOWA COUNTY — The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) has extended limited duration permits for livestock producers near Lostine, allowing them to continue efforts to remove a chronically depredating wolf until August 31. The permits, which were originally set to expire on July 31, have been extended due to ongoing depredation issues in the area.
The permits were initially issued following multiple wolf attacks on livestock in the southern portion of the Sled Springs Wildlife Management Unit (WMU) and the northern portion of the Minam WMU. Since May, local producers have reported three confirmed depredations and two probable attacks on their livestock, which led ODFW to authorize the removal of two wolves from the area.
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Conflict around gray wolves has become so hostile, the U.S. hired a mediator
From WSGW News radio:
When Francine Madden heard about a Wyoming man who killed a gray wolf after injuring it with his snowmobile and showing it off at his local bar, she was disturbed, but not very surprised.
She’s seen a lot during her almost three decades working as a mediator for wildlife conflict. She’s resolved disputes over gorillas in Uganda and tigers in Bhutan, but for 50-odd years, the management of gray wolves has been an intractable American problem.
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Can Colorado’s ag producers, wolves find a way to coexist?
From The Aspen Times:
As Colorado’s reintroduced wolves continue to explore the state, officials are grappling with how to balance supporting and managing wolves with maintaining the health of its agricultural industry.
“This is not biologically complex. This is socially and politically complex for us to do,” said Jeff Davis, director of Colorado Parks and Wildlife, at the Thursday, Aug. 22, commissioner meeting. “Wolves come with historical context and conflict. I would just say, the more we’re able to really listen to understand one another and the more we’re able to increase cooperation with one another — at least (Colorado Parks and Wildlife) and (Colorado Department of Agriculture) — I think we’ll all be better off in the long run.”
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Colorado knows where and when it’ll release wolves next — just not where the animals will come from
From Summit Daily:
Colorado Parks and Wildlife will look to continue adding to its gray wolf population this winter as it prepares to release between 30 to 50 wolves over the next three to five years.
The reintroduction goal, outlined by the state law, will require the agency to release between 10 to 15 each year. While the agency doesn’t yet have a source for the wolves it plans to release this winter, Reid Dewalt, deputy director of policy for Colorado Parks and Wildlife, announced the agency will again be releasing the animals in the northern part of the state at its commissioner meeting on Friday, Aug. 23.
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