From Northern News Now:
ELY, Minn. (Northern News Now) – The International Wolf Center in Ely is opening a new exhibit: Starvation, Adaptation, and Survival.
The new space depicts findings from the Voyagers Wolf Project, showcasing wolves’ diets, environmental impacts and profiles of individual wolves.
The study’s major finding is that wolves struggle in the warmer months.
“Summer’s a tough time for wolves in northern Minnesota,” Executive Director Grant Spickelmeir said. “Their natural prey can get away from them pretty effectively in the summer and they have to rely on other food sources.”
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TWS PRESIDENT LANKA URGES WYOMING TO ADDRESS WOLF LAWS
From The Wildlife Society:
TWS President Bob Lanka testified in front of a Wyoming legislative committee asking lawmakers to address statutes that allow residents to kill or harass wolves from snowmobiles and other motorized vehicles in most of the state.
“The Wildlife Society suggests the legislature consider a very narrow, craft revision to statutory language so that it expressly forbids purposely running down and running over predatory animals with automotive vehicles, motorized wheeled or over-snow vehicles,” Lanka testified, according to the Jackson Hole News & Guide. “The word ‘purposely’ is important here, as it is not our intent to make a highway accident a criminal offense.”
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‘Amazing’ video shows wolf hunting fish in northern Minnesota
From Fox News 9:
INTERNATIONAL FALLS, Minn. (FOX 9) – The Voyageurs Wolf Project shared “amazing” video of a wolf hunting fish recently in northern Minnesota.
The breeding female wolf of the Windsong Pack was captured on trail cameras fishing over the past few days in the Voyageurs National Park area of Minnesota, with the organization noting all the wolf has done the past few weeks is “fish and spend time with her pups, who are starting their young lives as pescatarians, it seems.”
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May map shows Colorado’s wolves are moving closer to mountain communities, state border
From Sky-Hi News:
On Wednesday, May 22, Colorado Parks and Wildlife released the latest map showing wolf activity across the state.
Parks and Wildlife has released the maps monthly since January after reintroducing 10 wolves in Grand and Summit counties in December.
The map depicts watersheds in which collared wolves have traveled between April 23 and May 21. Just because a watershed indicates wolf activity, does not mean wolves are present throughout the entire watershed.
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Livestock attacks become flash point in Colorado’s wolf restoration effort
From NPR for Northern Colorado:
Wildlife biologists were excited last winter when they watched five wolves from Oregon sprint out of their cages into a snowy meadow in Grand County.
“They’re majestic animals,” Colorado Parks and Wildlife species conservation manager Eric Odell told KUNC hours after the release in December. “It’s a pretty awesome thing to see.”
And for about four months, things were relatively quiet as the wolves traveled hundreds of miles around the state, from northwest Colorado all the way east to Larimer County.
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Exploring Bhutan’s wolf population and ecosystem impact
From Kuensel:
A recent study on grey wolf distribution by the Nature Conservation Division (NCD) has found that the grey wolf occupies less than seven percent of the country’s area.
This contrasts with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List, which indicates that the wolf range covers more than 50 percent of the country.
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Large carnivore management evolving
From Powell Tribune:
With Wyoming’s bear, wolf and mountain lion populations on the minds of many in the state as adventurers and tourists head to the hills for the summer season, Game and Fish Large Carnivore Biologist Luke Ellsbury took the mic at the Coe Auditorium in traditional red shirt, wool vest and a full salt and pepper beard that would make Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top) proud.
Ellsbury is part of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s elite Large Carnivore Management team based in Cody. He’s one of only 10 wildlife biologists tasked with conservation decisions and conflict mitigation, non-stop work that has them on the run throughout the year. He was invited to speak at the Draper Museum of Natural History at a time when the department has been under attack — mostly by those who don’t live in the state. The recent Sublette County wolf abuse case has weighed heavily on the entire department as those outraged by the case took out their frustrations on the red shirts. Game and Fish employees have faced harsh criticism after the incident, even receiving threats to their safety and sadly their pets, and been on the phones and answering a large volume of emails, according to an official.
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Wolf hit, killed by driver in Grand Teton National Park
From Jackson Hole News & Guide:
As a wildlife biologist, Jenny Fitzgerald has worked with Mexican gray wolves, capturing and studying the canines south of the U.S. border.
She has seen plenty of wolves in the wild and handled plenty of wolves in Mexico but had never been able to get up close and personal with one stateside. Still, she had always wanted to. How it happened Saturday was not what she envisioned.
“I’ve always wanted to be in the presence of one,” Fitzgerald said. “Dead, on the roadside, is not how I anticipated the first experience.”
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Wolf populations have recovered in some parts of the country. In others, that is not the case.
From Politifact:
Gray wolves bring mixed feelings in Wisconsin and other places where the animals have repopulated over the last several decades.
While advocates support strong protections for the animals, many farmers see them as a nuisance. And for hunters, a wolf can be the ultimate prize.
No matter where the debate falls, in Wisconsin gray wolves are under the federal protections of the endangered species list, meaning they can’t be hunted or killed for any reason. The animals were relisted in February 2022, according to a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel report from Feb. 10, 2022.
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New Exhibit “Starvation, Adaptation and Survival—Insights from the Voyageurs Wolf Project” to Premiere at the International Wolf Center
New exhibit to open at International Wolf Center
From Northern News Now:
ELY, Minn. (Northern News Now) – The International Wolf Center in Ely is opening a new exhibit: Starvation, Adaptation, and Survival.
The new space depicts findings from the Voyagers Wolf Project, showcasing wolves’ diets, environmental impacts and profiles of individual wolves.
The study’s major finding is that wolves struggle in the warmer months.
“Summer’s a tough time for wolves in northern Minnesota,” Executive Director Grant Spickelmeir said. “Their natural prey can get away from them pretty effectively in the summer and they have to rely on other food sources.”
Click here for the full story.