From wired.com:
MEGAN CALLAHAN-BECKEL HAS been working with gray wolves since she was 4 years old. Now the animal care coordinator at the Wildlife Science Center in Minnesota—where her mother, Peggy Callahan, is the executive director—Callahan-Beckel grew up in a home inhabited by not only dogs but also wolf puppies, who must be intensively hand-reared for them to be comfortable with humans later in life. She now raises wolf puppies in her own home every summer, and they come to adore her and see her as a kind of mom.
Much as she loves the wolves, Callahan-Beckel is well equipped to explain why dogs live in our homes and wolves stick to the great outdoors. “They test you, they get into your face, they are cocky, they’re destructive,” she says. “They’re everything that people shouldn’t want in dogs.”
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The wolves are coming. Can Coloradans meet them on common ground?
From the Colorado Sun:
The wolves aren’t waiting.
It’s been a year since mostly urban Colorado voters narrowly approved Proposition 114, a plan to reintroduce wolves to the Western Slope’s public lands — a plan with a deadline that’s still two years away.
But on Dec. 19, Don Gittleson, a rancher in North Park near the Wyoming border, lost a heifer to a wolf — the first confirmed wolf killing of livestock in Colorado in more than 70 years.
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Wildly rare video shows Yellowstone bear join in wolf hunt — and steal food in ‘kleptoparasitic’ drama
From The Hill:
A grizzly bear went on an unusual adventure in Yellowstone National Park that resulted in stealing and then eating a wolf pack’s prey.
The National Parks Service (NPS) posted a video to Facebook that showed a grizzly bear following a Junction Butte wolf pack that was hunting elk back in late October 2021. The grizzly bear followed the pack of wolves closely, and just as the wolves took down an elk, the bear jumped in to steal the carcass.
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Critics have taken fight over Idaho wolf laws to courts. How many lawsuits are there?
From the Union-Bulletin:
BOISE — Months after Idaho lawmakers enacted a controversial law expanding wolf hunting and trapping, pushback from critics has continued, with a cadre of opponents again taking their complaints to the court system.
Groups including the Humane Society of the United States, Earthjustice and Idaho-based International Wildlife Coexistence Network have threatened legal action over this spring’s wolf legislation for months.
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Spain: Cantabria government authorizes wolf cull
From Spanish News Today:
The shooting of 34 wolves is permitted in Cantabria after attacks cause the loss of over 1,000 head of livestock
The regional government of Cantabria in the north of Spain has passed a resolution to allow the culling by hunters of 34 wolves in the mountains in the north-west of the region, upsetting conservationists but pleasing cattle farmers as the eternal debate between the two points of view continues.
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Oregon: Baker County rancher allowed to kill up to four wolves from Lookout Mountain Pack
From the East Oregonian:
BAKER CITY — The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife issued a permit Thursday, July 29, allowing a Baker County ranching couple, or their designated agents, to kill up to four wolves from the Lookout Mountain Pack.
The pack, which consists of an estimated nine wolves, has attacked cattle four times in the past two weeks, killing two and injuring two others and has been determined to be chronically depredating and presents a significant risk to livestock present in the area, according to an ODFW press release.
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For Utah, the war on wolf protections seems to never end
From The Salt Lake Tribune:
Utah is again lawyering up to fight federal protection of wolves, which are not currently known to inhabit the Beehive State.
On Monday, state officials filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit brought by environmental groups that are trying to reverse a decision by the Donald Trump administration delisting the gray wolf under the Endangered Species Act.
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Dogs, Unlike Wolves, Are Born to Communicate With People
From wired.com:
MEGAN CALLAHAN-BECKEL HAS been working with gray wolves since she was 4 years old. Now the animal care coordinator at the Wildlife Science Center in Minnesota—where her mother, Peggy Callahan, is the executive director—Callahan-Beckel grew up in a home inhabited by not only dogs but also wolf puppies, who must be intensively hand-reared for them to be comfortable with humans later in life. She now raises wolf puppies in her own home every summer, and they come to adore her and see her as a kind of mom.
Much as she loves the wolves, Callahan-Beckel is well equipped to explain why dogs live in our homes and wolves stick to the great outdoors. “They test you, they get into your face, they are cocky, they’re destructive,” she says. “They’re everything that people shouldn’t want in dogs.”
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Utah asks to join U.S., NRA in gray wolf delisting case
From Reuters:
(Reuters) – The state of Utah has asked a federal court in Oakland for permission to join in a lawsuit in order to oppose conservation groups that are challenging the removal of gray wolves from the list of endangered and threatened species in the lower 48 states.
In a Monday filing, Utah said it wants to join the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Rifle Association in defending the Trump administration’s December decision to de-list the gray wolf. WildEarth Guardians and other groups sued the government to undo the decision in January, alleging violations of the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
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Colorado: Policy groups engage Moffat County on the issue of wolf reintroduction
From The Craig Press in Colorado:
Monday, a group from the Keystone Policy Center and the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission visited Craig to discuss plans for wolf reintroduction. The reintroduction, approved by Colorado voters last November, could happen in the area within the next couple of years.
Residents of the area were invited to visit various stations set up at Moffat County High School to learn more about Proposition 114.
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US agency to review possible protections for Alaska wolf
From the Associated Press:
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced plans Monday to review whether a southeast Alaska wolf population merits Endangered Species Act protections.
The plans are outlined in a document set to be published in the Federal Register on Tuesday. The document states that a petition from conservation groups to protect the Alexander Archipelago wolf included information indicating protections may be warranted due to potential threats associated with logging, illegal and legal trapping and hunting, climate change impacts and loss of genetic diversity.
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