From My Modern Met:
The annual survey has catalogued moose and wolf populations in the National Park for decades. Isle Royale National Park is a beautiful main island surrounded by many smaller islands. In the park live a largely isolated population of wolves, moose, foxes, and other creatures. Each winter Michigan Technological University researchers camp out for seven weeks in snow-surrounded tents. This year, the researchers were on the island from January 20 to March 3, 2023. They carefully tracked, photographed, and investigated the animal inhabitants of the island.
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Montanans debate annual wolf report
From American Hunter:
Montana’s annual wolf report set the stage for a heated debate at the state’s Environmental Quality Council, which provides oversight for several agencies, including the Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP). The report showed that 248 wolves were harvested by hunters and trappers in 2022, well below the quota of 450 animals. Thirty five more animals were killed by the USDA’s Wildlife Services division for attacking livestock, with 10 more being killed by landowners for the same reason. This is also well below the 68-animal yearly average of depredation kills, calculated since 2002.
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Conservation group takes issue with Wisconsin’s wolf plan
From The Center Square:
A conservation group says a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resource plan to manage the state’s wolf population ignores input from thousands living with the consequences of an out-of-control population.
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‘Shameful loss’: wolves declared extinct in Andalucía, Spain
From The Guardian:
For centuries, wolves have roamed the mountain ranges of Andalucía in southern Spain, but after years of decline the creature has been officially declared extinct in the region.
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Wisconsin officials add recommendations to new management plan to keep wolf population around 1,000
From AP News:
Wisconsin wildlife officials released a revised draft wolf management plan Tuesday that recommends holding the statewide population at around 1,000 animals, a concession to conservatives looking for a hard limit.
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Wolf populations are making a comeback in Michigan’s Isle Royale National Park
From My Modern Met:
The annual survey has catalogued moose and wolf populations in the National Park for decades. Isle Royale National Park is a beautiful main island surrounded by many smaller islands. In the park live a largely isolated population of wolves, moose, foxes, and other creatures. Each winter Michigan Technological University researchers camp out for seven weeks in snow-surrounded tents. This year, the researchers were on the island from January 20 to March 3, 2023. They carefully tracked, photographed, and investigated the animal inhabitants of the island.
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How wolf reintroduction is supposed to go — and how it’s going
From the Colorado Sun:
Over the course of a few years, 30 to 50 gray wolves are supposed to be introduced west of the Continental Divide. The working group advising CPW on the plan recommended using gray wolves captured from several different packs in the Northern Rockies of Idaho or Montana, or from sites in Oregon and Washington. The states are so far reluctant to help.
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Gray wolves are returning to the Oregon Coast Range. What does it mean for farmers?
From Statesman Journal:
Gray wolves once roamed these forests and canyons, patrolling cliffs above the ocean and hunting deep ravines for deer and elk before European Americans blitzed the predators using guns and poison, exterminating them by 1920. More than a century later, wolves are quietly returning to Oregon’s oceanside forests and communities.
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Endangered red wolves move into new habitat at Brookgreen Gardens
From Georgetown Times:
Three red wolves now prowl the four grassy acres of Red Wolf Ridge, and Brookgreen hopes to have more on hand in the future with the introduction of a breeding program. The species is designated as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimates that only about three dozen still exist in the wild, with another 278 in captivity.
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Wolf report spawns debate over population, hunting
From Billings Gazette:
Wolf advocates say the agency, under the direction of the Republican-dominated Legislature, has declared a war on the big canines by extending seasons to last six months and allowing more ways to kill wolves. On the other side of the issue, one of the lawmakers who helped usher in legislation to increase wolf hunting and trapping opportunities is worried FWP may ease the wolf harvest.
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Idaho commission approves new wolf management plan
From Grandview Outdoors:
The Idaho Fish and Game Commission has unanimously approved a new wolf management plan, outlining goals and strategies to manage the population to fluctuate at about 500 wolves. The wolf plan drew roughly 2,500 comments during a 32-day public comment period, which will shape Idaho’s wolf management over the next six years. The plan was approved in the commission’s May 11 meeting.
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