From University of Manitoba News:
Researchers found that human activities change where deer are on the landscape, and wolves tend to go where the deer are. They also found that wolves leverage human infrastructure to their advantage.
Sean Johnson-Bice, who led the project, says it took very intensive field work to come to these conclusions. He and his team went out and captured wolves to install GPS collars on them.
They then visited every single location where a wolf spent more than 20 minutes.
“We’re basically going out there like crime scene investigators looking for evidence of a kill,” he said.
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Michigan wolf population “stable” at about 630 animals
From Michigan Radio:
Michigan’s wolf population remains stable at about 630 wolves, and there are no plans for a harvest season for wolves in the state. These were some of the conclusions drawn by Michigan’s Natural Resources Commission and Department of Natural Resources (DNR) wildlife biologists at a recent meeting in Lansing to discuss Michigan’s wolves.
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Mexican gray wolves get annual health checkup, officials hope for more puppies
From 12News:
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Terra lies on a metal table, IV in her arm, oxygen mask over her nose.
A team of doctors work around her, drawing blood, giving her a full body workup to see if there’s anything wrong with her. Because Terra is very rare.
Terra is a Mexican gray wolf.
“We’re just doing an annual physical exam,” said Dr. Anne Justice, a veterinarian for Arizona Game & Fish. “These wolves appear to be healthy but we just want to make sure.”
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CBC Sudbury: ‘Hunting highways’: How human infrastructure changed the relationship between wolves and deer
From University of Manitoba News:
Researchers found that human activities change where deer are on the landscape, and wolves tend to go where the deer are. They also found that wolves leverage human infrastructure to their advantage.
Sean Johnson-Bice, who led the project, says it took very intensive field work to come to these conclusions. He and his team went out and captured wolves to install GPS collars on them.
They then visited every single location where a wolf spent more than 20 minutes.
“We’re basically going out there like crime scene investigators looking for evidence of a kill,” he said.
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Two Wolves Chase Whitetail Buck To The Point Of Exhaustion… And Dinner Is Served
From Whiskey Riff:
Well, that’s not something you see every day. We all know it happens out there, but we just don’t see it. To be truthful, I hate seeing a big buck go down like this. They have outsmarted all sorts of predators for many years and grew to be a large member of their population, contributing yearly to the genetic pool.
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Examining the role wolves play in boreal forest dynamics as they constrain beaver movements
From Phys.org:
A team of land managers at the University of Minnesota, working with a colleague at the University of Manitoba, has learned more about the role wolves play in boreal forest dynamics as they prey on beavers. In their study, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the group used GPS trackers on wild wolves and cameras placed around several beaver ponds at a forested park in Minnesota to learn more about the impact of beavers and wolves on forest dynamics.
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Wisconsin’s goals for managing wolves? DNR wolf specialist breaks down new plan
From Wisconsin Public Radio:
With hundreds of wolves now in Wisconsin, a state board recently approved a new plan for managing the controversial carnivores.
The Natural Resources Board sets policies for the state Department of Natural Resources and approved a new wolf management plan Oct. 25.
The final version of the plan is expected to be published in the coming weeks, said Randy Johnson, a DNR large carnivore specialist. In the meantime, a draft version is available on the DNR’s website.
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Asha, the Mexican gray wolf from AZ, wanders into New Mexico again
From Fronteras:
Last year, an endangered Mexican gray wolf made headlines when she wandered into northern New Mexico.
She was captured and returned to Arizona, but reports say she is on the move again.
The wolf moved into the southern Rocky Mountains in New Mexico, far from any known wolf packs.
A group of schoolchildren named her Asha.
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Large carnivores present biggest test to coexistence, zonal management could help
From Buckrail:
JACKSON, Wyo. — In the quest for coexistence in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE), addressing the reality of humans’ competition with large carnivores is critical to the future of the local ecology. And to help prioritize coexisting over competing, wolf biologists say zonal management is an important key to the balancing act.
Large carnivores are a big focus in the GYE because of their reintroduction success and their roles as keystone species, but also because of the rivalry they seem to present to human communities in the region.
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Cat Urbigkit: Wyoming Game And Fish Provides Input for Colorado Wolf Reintroduction
From Cowboy State Daily:
Gov. Mark Gordon didn’t mince words last spring when he announced that Wyoming wouldn’t be supplying wolves for Colorado’s voter-initiated wolf reintroduction, and Wyoming’s stance was reinforced by a letter from Wyoming Game & Fish Department (WG&F) Director Brian Nesvik stating that not only would Wyoming not be supplying wolves, but WG&F did not support the reintroduction of wolves to Colorado.
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Wolves have returned to California after nearly 150 years. They bring an unexpected problem
From The Guardian:
A sinewy skull, two hooves and a shriveled hide are all that’s left of the 650-pound cow.
“Wolf kill,” said William McDarment, a rancher on the Tule River Reservation in Tulare county, California. “Picked clean in less than a week. … See those tracks.”
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