From Southern Environmental Law Center:
Full tree canopies and blooming goldenrod. Shifting bird sightings with migrating flocks. The thrum of cicadas, late sunsets, and lightning bugs. The final remnants of summer are all around — and in Eastern North Carolina they include the welcome yips and yaps of growing red wolf pups.
On August 8, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) shared the good news that the world’s only wild population of red wolves has grown by as many as 16 pups. These births are a critical step forward for a population that numbered as few as 7 known wolves in the wild just five years ago.
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Wolf movement continues across Western Colorado and some Front Range watersheds in new map
From The Aspen Times:
Colorado’s collared gray wolves are primarily sticking to Western Slope watersheds, with some exploration toward the east.
In the latest map from Colorado Parks and Wildlife — which shows the watersheds where the state’s collared gray wolves were located between July 22 and Aug. 26 — wolves checked out northwest areas in Routt, Jackson, Rio Blanco, Grand, Summit, Eagle, Lake, and Pitkin counties.
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Group looking to end wolf reintroduction in Colorado fails to collect enough signatures for 2026 ballot measure
From Colorado Sun:
A group seeking to end wolf reintroduction in Colorado says it’s going back to the drawing board after failing to collect the voter signatures needed to get a measure on the November 2026 ballot.
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How to Count a Wolf
From Mountain Journal:
To understand how thorny a problem wolf management is in Montana, just look at the clock. The August 21 state Fish and Wildlife Commission meeting started at 8:30 a.m. and ticked a dozen items off its agenda before noon. The debate over 2025-26 wolf regulations took another seven hours.
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Foushee, Murphy introduce resolution to protect North Carolina’s endangered red wolves
From NC Newsline:
Two members of North Carolina’s congressional delegation introduced a bipartisan resolution on Monday to back red wolf repopulation and recovery efforts.
Filed by Democratic Rep. Valerie Foushee and Republican Rep. Greg Murphy, the resolution asks for continued support and approval of federal programs and initiatives, such as wildlife corridors, to aid in protecting North Carolina’s native red wolf population.
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[Colorado] Effort to kill livestock-attacking wolf ends with its fate unclear
From The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel:
Wildlife officials have ended their effort to kill a livestock-attacking gray wolf in Rio Blanco County, unsure about whether they succeeded in the effort.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife said in a news release Tuesday that it concluded an “active removal period” aimed at lethally removing an uncollared wolf determined to be responsible for attacks on livestock in the county in late July and August.
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Hope for red wolves New pups born in the wild signal a brighter future
From Southern Environmental Law Center:
Full tree canopies and blooming goldenrod. Shifting bird sightings with migrating flocks. The thrum of cicadas, late sunsets, and lightning bugs. The final remnants of summer are all around — and in Eastern North Carolina they include the welcome yips and yaps of growing red wolf pups.
On August 8, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) shared the good news that the world’s only wild population of red wolves has grown by as many as 16 pups. These births are a critical step forward for a population that numbered as few as 7 known wolves in the wild just five years ago.
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Commission OKs new wolf trapping regs in Mineral County [Montana]
From Clark Fork Valley Press:
A member of the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission last week successfully lobbied to eliminate trapping setbacks on closed roads in Mineral County and increase the statewide wolf quota.
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WDFW authorizes “incremental” killing of wolves in Ferry County [Washington]
From The Spokesman Review:
Wildlife officials are trying to kill at least one wolf from a pack in northeast Washington in response to a series of cattle attacks.
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Director Kelly Susewind approved the “incremental lethal removal” of wolves from the Sherman wolf pack territory in Ferry County.
The decision comes after four separate attacks on cattle with three calves killed, according to WDFW.
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Rare Indian wolf spotted in [Pakistan] Salt Range
From The Express Tribune:
LAHORE: The endangered Indian wolf has resurfaced in Punjab’s Salt Range, with the provincial Wildlife Department confirming the first-ever government-documented photographic evidence of the species in the region.
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[Colorado] Governor Polis to sign measure reallocating tax dollars for wolf funding
From KDVR:
DENVER (KDVR) — Lawmakers ended the special legislative session on Tuesday, and while most of the bills they worked on this session are reactions to a measure passed in Washington, D.C., one bill awaiting the governor’s signature looks to address an issue that is uniquely Colorado’s.
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