From the Flathead Beacon in Kalispell, Montana:
The story of how a tattered leather research collar from Banff National Park turned up in a snow-choked drainage west of Kalispell begins more than two decades ago, in the autumn of 2001, when a juvenile female gray wolf began transmitting valuable tracking data to biologists with Parks Canada.
The researchers were studying wolf dispersal and how the cross-country treks of lone wolves can improve genetic diversity among a keystone species in recovery. Their research methods occasionally involved tracking the large carnivores on epic transboundary journeys, which criss-crossed a patchwork of management regimes and jurisdictions as individual wolves moved between places of protection and peril.
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Members Of Minnesota Congressional Delegation Call For Hearing On Gray Wolves
From WillmarRadio.com in Minnesota:
(Washington, DC) — Three Minnesota Republicans are part of a group in the U-S House calling for a hearing on legislation that would return the management of gray wolves to the states. A February ruling by a California federal judge put the gray wolf back on the federal endangered species list.
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Counting India’s wolves, one howl at a time
From Mongabay.com in India:
India’s unique wolf population and the grasslands on which they live are under increasing pressure due to compensatory plantations and development schemes.
Counting the wolves could aid conservation efforts, but their elusiveness and highly mobile nature has posed a challenge to conducting a census.
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Montana cattle group opposes state giving Colorado wolves for reintroduction
From Coloradoan.com:
The Montana Stockgrowers Association has asked its state wildlife agency to prevent wolves from being captured and released into Colorado as part of the Centennial State’s voter-mandated reintroduction plan.
It’s not that the 135-year-old livestock producer organization is supportive of keeping Montana’s wolves in the state. Instead, in a letter to Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks the organization voiced its concern for the livestock producers of Colorado as a sign of solidarity.
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Lawmaker wants to limit Arizona’s authority over imperiled Mexican gray wolves
From AZCentral.com:
The Arizona House has passed a bill that would strip state wildlife officials of the authority to stop the killing of Mexican gray wolves in certain circumstances. The bill is now in the Senate, where conservation organizations say its prospects are good.
House Bill 2181 bars the state Game and Fish Commission from prohibiting a person from killing a wolf if the person feels threatened or if their livestock or pets are threatened. The bill doesn’t explicitly say that only the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the federal wildlife management agency, can set rules for killing Mexican wolves, but that would be the result if it became law.
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Yellowstone’s wolf reintroduction has been hailed as a success. But now advocates are worried for the wolves’ future.
From the Bozeman Daily Chronicle:
MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS — A convoy of guides, tourists and seasoned wolf-watchers set out from Gardiner before dawn. They didn’t have to go far.
Five miles or so beyond Yellowstone National Park’s north entrance, a black wolf howled and scurried across a slope.
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‘Unprecedented killing’: The deadliest season for Yellowstone’s wolves
From The Washington Post:
GARDINER, Mont. — Kim Bean saw the black ravens clustered in the leafless cottonwoods and thought: There’s our death.
The carcass had been on the hillside overlooking Yellowstone National Park for some time, but there was still enough flesh to attract scavengers. Bean crouched over it, examining the thin bones on the snowy ground.
“They chopped off the feet,” she said.
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World Wildlife Day: From Traps to Stupas—Conservation Story of Ladakh’s Wolves Using Community-Based PARTNERS Approach
From weaather.com:
Not long ago, enforcement agencies considered local communities a threat to conservation, driving them away from “reserved” forests and blocking their access to natural resources like honey and fodder. Repeated conflicts remained widespread and constant from colonial times up until recent years.
After decades of struggle, policies worldwide slowly started to recognise the rights of local communities. Over the past few years, however, conservationists have begun recognising them as assets and partners.
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This Israeli Found His Happiness in the Company of Wolves
From haaretz.com:
Gilad Guy is living his passion. Although he never studied programming, he worked in the high-tech sector for 15 years. Then he decided he didn’t want to spend his life in front of a computer screen. So, he moved to the Golan Heights and focused on what he loved – photographing wolves. He is now working on raising money to produce a film about the most densely populated wolf population in the world.
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Group demands emergency protections for wolves in Idaho, Rockies
From the Idaho Mountain Express:
Hailey-based Western Watersheds Project joined nine other environmental groups on Tuesday in filing a petition against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over its continued lack of federal protections for gray wolves in the northern Rockies region.
U.S. District Judge Jeffery White restored federal protections for gray wolves in most U.S. states on Feb. 10, reversing a 2020 ruling under the Trump administration that removed wolves from the Endangered Species Act list—a designation held since 1974.
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The Wandering Wolf
From the Flathead Beacon in Kalispell, Montana:
The story of how a tattered leather research collar from Banff National Park turned up in a snow-choked drainage west of Kalispell begins more than two decades ago, in the autumn of 2001, when a juvenile female gray wolf began transmitting valuable tracking data to biologists with Parks Canada.
The researchers were studying wolf dispersal and how the cross-country treks of lone wolves can improve genetic diversity among a keystone species in recovery. Their research methods occasionally involved tracking the large carnivores on epic transboundary journeys, which criss-crossed a patchwork of management regimes and jurisdictions as individual wolves moved between places of protection and peril.
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