From the Daily Inter Lake in Montana:
Emotions were strong as hundreds of hunters and trappers from Northwest Montana made their feelings known about wolves in the region at a gathering Wednesday at the Red Lion in Kalispell.
The meeting, one of a handful that have been held in Region 1 this winter, was organized by the Montana Sportsmen for Fish and Game, and Idaho-based Foundation for Wildlife Management.
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Wolf removal numbers at 29 for Revelstoke area of British Columbia
From the Revelstoke Mountaineer:
The number of wolves killed in the Revelstoke area in a program designed to aid endangered mountain caribou now sits at 29.
In 2015, the B.C. forests ministry began a wolf removal program in several areas of B.C. in an effort to help recover endangered mountain caribou populations. The ministry cited studies that showed 40 per cent of deaths of adult caribou that the government investigated were caused by wolves.
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Return of the wolf to Montana
From the Missoulian in Montana:
Renowned wolf biologist Diane Boyd will present a program on the status of the wolf recovery program at the Monday, Feb. 11, 2019 Flathead Audubon program from 7-9 p.m. at the Gateway West Community Room in Kalispell.
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No need for alarm after dog/wolf encounter in Cable, Wisconsin, area, says expert
From the Sawyer County Record:
We’ve all heard of wolves attacking hunting dogs deep in the woods, but we are less likely to hear about a wolf attacking a dog near a home. The latter is raising some concern in the Namakagon area.
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Reintroduced Wolf departs Isle Royale via ice bridge
From UpperMichigansSource.com and Isle Royale National Park:
HOUGHTON, Mich. (WLUC) – Immediately following the end of the government shutdown, National Park Service (NPS) personnel went to Isle Royale to prepare for a potential translocation of wolves from Canada and the 61st annual wolf/moose population monitoring. The extreme cold and weather conditions prevented any successful translocation of wolves from Ontario last week.
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In Germany, the fear of the wolf turns to the political debate
From TheNews.com:
“A wolf attacks a man”: true or false, this story reported in the Daily newspaper Bild, the most read of Germany, has fueled the debate on the increased presence of this predator in the country, noted in the German campaigns and generating diffuse fears.
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Mount Hood wolf’s death may be tied to capture
From The Columbian:
One of the few wolves that has taken up residence near Mount Hood has died, wildlife officials confirmed Monday.
The wolf was found in November near U.S. 26 and its cause of death was unknown, said Elizabeth Materna, a spokeswoman with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the agency responsible for wolf management in most of Western Oregon.
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Idaho wolf control board moves closer to staying in business
From IdahoNews.com and the Associated Press:
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho board that pays a federal agency to kill wolves that attack livestock and elk is a step closer to becoming permanent following a Senate panel’s split vote on Monday.
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The Newfoundland wolf is back
From Whale House Guest House:
People have been saying wolves in Newfoundland have been extinct for around 100 years, claiming the last known sighting to have been anywhere between 1911 and 1930, but is that really true? A quick wiki search will tell you the Newfoundland wolf (a subspecies of the grey wolf) is long gone and that the only canine on the island is the coyote, which was recently introduced. But things are not always as they seem, and just like it was thought the black bear had long left Newfoundland’s Avalon Peninsula (there were three sightings in the summer of 2018 of black nears on the Avalon) the wolf may not have gone anywhere.
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Wolves still a hot-button issue at meeting in Kalispell, Montana
From the Daily Inter Lake in Montana:
Emotions were strong as hundreds of hunters and trappers from Northwest Montana made their feelings known about wolves in the region at a gathering Wednesday at the Red Lion in Kalispell.
The meeting, one of a handful that have been held in Region 1 this winter, was organized by the Montana Sportsmen for Fish and Game, and Idaho-based Foundation for Wildlife Management.
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Mount Hood wolf found dead near Washington state highway
From OPB.org:
One of the wolves recently spotted on Mount Hood has died.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service confirmed to OPB that a 1.5-year-old male wolf from the White River pack died near Highway 26 in November.
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