From Quetico Superior Wilderness News:
The current population in Minnesota stands relatively stable at around 2,900 wolves. Prime habitat lies within the Quetico Superior region, where they prefer forests and inland wetlands. If the bill passes into law, it means that management would shift from federal to state governance. While the Biden administration has expressed opposition, opinions are different at local levels.
“Delisting a species is not just a numbers game,” Jill Fritz, Senior Director of Wildlife Protection with the U.S. Humane Society told WDIO. “In December, we checked in with the Minnesota DNR, the Minnesota Deer Hunters Association, and the Voyageurs Wolf Project to see if the Timber wolf is to blame for the deer decline in Northern Minnesota.”
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Colorado wolf found dead last month was likely killed by a mountain lion, federal officials say
From The Denver Post:
The reintroduced Colorado wolf found dead last month in Larimer County likely died after being attacked by a mountain lion, according to a necropsy conducted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The gray wolf was one of 10 released in December in Colorado’s central mountains as part of a voter-mandated reintroduction effort. The wolf is the first of the group to die, bringing the state’s known population of wolves to 11 — including two wolves remaining from a pack established earlier from wolves that had migrated from Wyoming.
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The Ghost Wolves of Galveston vs. Margaritaville
From Texas Monthly:
Bridgett vonHoldt was grabbing lunch at Viet Cajun, a restaurant on the Galveston Island Seawall, when a chatty local approached her. The man had pegged her and her group, correctly, as out-of-towners. Birders, he figured, if the binoculars they carried were any clue. “You know what you should do,” he told vonHoldt, “is go look at these wolves.”
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Idaho’s wolf killings decline as board advances private contracts
From Boise Public Radio:
The number of wolves killed in Idaho this past year is down. Katie Oelrich with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game told members of the Wolf Depredation Control Board Thursday that 389 wolves have been killed in the state since last July.
“This includes hunting, trapping, Wildlife Services removals, roadkill and all the other things that we get brought into us or we’re notified of,” she said.
The total number of wolves killed is about 10% lower than last year and 20% lower than the past three years.
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Hunter Wants ‘Wyoming Solution’ To Any Reform That Comes From Wolf Torture
From Cowboy State Daily:
The eyes of the world have been on Wyoming since a wolf was tortured and killed in Daniel, but if reform is to come from the incident, it should be Wyoming’s business, not the world’s, an avid hunter from Dubois said.
“I think that here in Wyoming, we recognize that we have our own solutions to our problems. We don’t need outside organizations pressuring the federal government to come in and change things for us,” Jim Laybourn told Cowboy State Daily.
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Not opposed to shooting predators, former Colorado rancher speaks out against Wyoming wolf killing
From Vail Daily:
Born and raised on a Cherokee reservation in North Carolina, Grey Bear owned Sleeping Giant Ranch in Routt County from 2002 to 2017 and now owns a hunting and fishing lodge in the British Columbia, Canada.
The Canadian province, larger than the countries of France and Germany combined, is a place where wildlife officials estimate there to be a population of roughly 8,500 grey wolves.
Over the phone Thursday, Grey Bear said the wolves have taken on average 1.5 horses per year from his property in north-central British Columbia and, on occasions where he has caught wolves in the act, he has killed the predators.
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Bill targets gray wolf endangered status
From Quetico Superior Wilderness News:
The current population in Minnesota stands relatively stable at around 2,900 wolves. Prime habitat lies within the Quetico Superior region, where they prefer forests and inland wetlands. If the bill passes into law, it means that management would shift from federal to state governance. While the Biden administration has expressed opposition, opinions are different at local levels.
“Delisting a species is not just a numbers game,” Jill Fritz, Senior Director of Wildlife Protection with the U.S. Humane Society told WDIO. “In December, we checked in with the Minnesota DNR, the Minnesota Deer Hunters Association, and the Voyageurs Wolf Project to see if the Timber wolf is to blame for the deer decline in Northern Minnesota.”
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Another confirmed wolf depredation in Grand County
From Sky-Hi News:
Colorado Parks and Wildlife has confirmed that one yearling heifer was killed by a wolf or wolves in Grand County. CPW confirmed this most recent depredation on Saturday.
CPW posted the incident on its Wolf Depredation Report webpage on its website on Sunday. CPW defines any depredation as physical trauma resulting in injury or death.
According to local sources, this most recent depredation occurred on the same property where five other cattle have been killed. This marks the seventh event in Colorado since wolves were released, involving nine cattle.
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Suspected wolf pack sighting in NV turns out to be coyotes
From Nevada Current:
Wildlife managers in Nevada confirmed Monday that a possible wolf pack sighting north of Elko months earlier was, in fact, a pack of coyotes.
The Nevada Department of Wildlife reported the possible wolf pack sighting in March, prompting state biologists to collect DNA from two scats and hair samples nearby to confirm whether or not the pack sighted were indeed wolves.
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Red wolf raised at Washington state sanctuary joins wild pack, sires 8 pups
From KUOW:
An endangered American red wolf born and raised in a Washington state sanctuary and released into the wild earlier this year in North Carolina has fathered a litter of eight pups, doubling the size of his adopted pack.
The wolf, known as M2191, but nicknamed “Finch” among the staff at Wolf Haven International, is only the second red wolf released into the wild by the wolf sanctuary and education center located on 80 acres south of Olympia, Washington.
American red wolves remain one of the most endangered species in North America. The North Carolina population, which includes around 20 wolves, is the world’s only wild population.
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Idaho’s wolf killings decline as board advances private contracts
From Boise State Public Radio:
The number of wolves killed in Idaho this past year is down. Katie Oelrich with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game told members of the Wolf Depredation Control Board Thursday that 389 wolves have been killed in the state since last July.
“This includes hunting, trapping, Wildlife Services removals, roadkill and all the other things that we get brought into us or we’re notified of,” she said.
The total number of wolves killed is about 10% lower than last year and 20% lower than the past three years.
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