From Buckrail:
WYOMING — According to the Wyoming Gray Wolf Monitoring and Management 2022 Annual Report, a total of 95 wolf mortalities were documented statewide in Wyoming last year, with humans responsible for 89 percent of them.
The Report was prepared by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) in cooperation with the National Park Service (NPS), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, USDA-APHIS-Wildlife Services and Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapahoe Tribal Fish and Game Department, providing the status of the gray wolf population in Wyoming from Jan. 1 through Dec. 31.
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Washington Not Too Enthusiastic About Donating Wolves To Colorado
From Northwest Sportsman:
Washington wildlife overseers don’t appear too enthusiastic at the moment about donating wolves to Colorado for a voter-mandated wolf reintroduction effort in that state, but did express interest in at least hearing more about it.
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Austrian regions allow controversial wolf hunting
From France24.com:
Vienna (AFP) – Several regions of Austria have allowed the controversial killing of wolves after reporting an increase in livestock attacks, sparking debate in the Alpine EU member.
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Watch: Two adult bison thwart pack of wolves that were hunting lone calf at Yellowstone
From USA Today:
A Yellowstone guide and wolf tracker captured the moment a bison calf had its life saved from a pack of wolves.
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Murderer’s Creek wolves kill week-old calf in Bear Valley
From Elk Horn Media Group:
SENECA – More wolf activity has been reported in Grant County. On Thursday, June 15th, a dead one-week-old bovine calf was found on private pasture in Bear Valley.
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Wolves that nearly died out from inbreeding recovered, now helping a remote island’s ecosystem
From WFMZ TV:
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Gray wolves are thriving at Isle Royale National Park five years after authorities began a last-ditch attempt to prevent the species from dying out on the Lake Superior island chain, scientists said.
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Red Wolves Released to the Wilds of North Carolina
From Association of Zoos and Aquariums:
On a cold November day in 2022, keepers and volunteers at the Endangered Wolf Center in Eureka, Mo., prepared five American red wolves to be transported to the wilds of North Carolina.
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Wolves at Fontana
Form Independence Bulletin Journal:
FONTANA PARK – Buchanan County Conservation is proud to offer a traveling exhibit called Wolves and Wild Lands developed by the International Wolf Center. Visit the Fontana Interpretive Nature Center (free admission; donations accepted) between June 20 and August 24 to explore this display. Nature Center hours are M-F 8 a.m. — noon; W-F 1-4:30 p.m. and weekends 1-5 p.m. The exhibit brings the compelling stories of wolves and their relationship with humans to nature center visitors.
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Researchers Revolutionize Wildlife Tracking with Self-Powered GPS Tracker As Wolves Return to Europe
From Tech Times:
A report shared by Phys.org tells us that a team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen, the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, and DTU have developed a groundbreaking solution-a battery-free GPS wildlife tracker that harnesses the kinetic energy of the animals themselves.
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Gray Wolf 2022 Annual Report: Humans caused 89% of wolf deaths
From Buckrail:
WYOMING — According to the Wyoming Gray Wolf Monitoring and Management 2022 Annual Report, a total of 95 wolf mortalities were documented statewide in Wyoming last year, with humans responsible for 89 percent of them.
The Report was prepared by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) in cooperation with the National Park Service (NPS), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, USDA-APHIS-Wildlife Services and Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapahoe Tribal Fish and Game Department, providing the status of the gray wolf population in Wyoming from Jan. 1 through Dec. 31.
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Wolf killed in Oregon crash believed to have been fed by people in cars
From OBP:
The wolf, known as OR-143, was a member of the Indigo pack in Western Oregon.
A male yearling wolf in Oregon was hit and killed by a vehicle on Monday along Highway 138. According to the Center for Biological Diversity, the wolf was not behaving like the animals typically do around humans, leading state officials to believe that people had been feeding him from their cars.
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