From the Idaho Statesman:
An Idaho family’s dog is recovering after being shot twice on Saturday by a camper who mistook her for a wolf.
Rob Kolb and his 16-year-old daughter, Piper, were backpacking at North Fork Lake in the Boulder Mountains with their Alaskan malamute, Suki, when the dog wandered to a nearby campsite. A camper there believed Suki was a wolf and fired three bullets from a handgun, striking the dog in the head.
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Not so big and bad: wolves caused just 0.2% of damage to fauna last year
From DutchNews.nl:
Wolves were responsible for just 0.2% of the damage to fauna in the Netherlands in 2020, according to research by conservationists. Since the animals returned to the Netherlands in 2019 after a 150-year absence farmers have voiced concern about the threat to sheep and cattle.
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Washington officials say breeding female of wolf pack was illegally killed
From the Statesman Journal:
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A female wolf that had pups earlier this year has been illegally killed in northeast Washington state.
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife biologists responded to a report of a dead wolf on May 26 in the Sheep Creek area of Stevens County. The agency says the female died of a gunshot wound.
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Camper shoots, injures Idaho family’s dog after mistaking her for a wolf
From the Idaho Statesman:
An Idaho family’s dog is recovering after being shot twice on Saturday by a camper who mistook her for a wolf.
Rob Kolb and his 16-year-old daughter, Piper, were backpacking at North Fork Lake in the Boulder Mountains with their Alaskan malamute, Suki, when the dog wandered to a nearby campsite. A camper there believed Suki was a wolf and fired three bullets from a handgun, striking the dog in the head.
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Lone Wolf ‘Atop the Roof of the World’
1st gray wolf pups since 1940s spotted in Colorado
From ABCNews:
DENVER — Colorado has its first litter of gray wolf pups since the 1940s, state wildlife officials said Wednesday.
A state biologist and district wildlife manager each spotted the litter of at least three wolf pups over the weekend with their parents, two adult wolves known to live in the state, Gov. Jared Polis announced in a news release. Most wolf litters have four to six pups, so there could be more.
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CPW puts wolf cubs under observation
From the Montrose Press in Colorado:
A Colorado Parks and Wildlife biologist and CPW district wildlife manager each independently reported visual confirmation of multiple pups with wolves M2101 and F1084. While these observations were necessarily made at long distance, CPW staff have recorded three separate, but similar, sightings of pups on the ground in Colorado.
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US wildlife managers tout wolf cross-fostering efforts
From ABCNews:
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A record 22 captive-born Mexican gray wolf pups have been placed into dens in the wild in the southwestern U.S. to be raised by surrogate packs, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Monday.
The agency called this year’s cross-fostering season a success, saying the endangered predators that have been part of the fostering program over the last six years have helped to boost genetic diversity among the wild population in New Mexico and Arizona.
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Michigan: State Senate panel debates wolf council bill
From uppermichiganssource.com:
LANSING, Mich. (WLUC) – Upper Michigan is home to the state’s entire wolf population, according to the Michigan DNR.
The debate over a wolf hunting season has been ongoing after the animal population rebounded to nearly 700 over the last 30 years.
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Wolf hunting to be banned in Spain but divisions persist over predator
From The Olive Press in Spain:
The wolf has divided society for centuries but now it will be protected in Spain after a ban on hunting comes into action from September.
The Spanish government will declare the wolf a “wild animal under special protection” which means hunting it is illegal.
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Idaho’s new wolf law has prompted a petition that could relist the animals as endangered
From KPVI.com:
Critics of an Idaho wolf law approved earlier this month have launched a petition that could reinstate Endangered Species Act protections for wolves that were lifted a decade ago.
The Humane Society of the United States, Humane Society Legislative Fund, Sierra Club and Center for Biological Diversity announced Wednesday that they petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to reinstate protections for wolves in a move prompted by laws in Idaho and Montana.
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