From Yahoo.com:
(FOX40.COM) — California wildlife officials have fitted satellite collars on five gray wolves in Northern California as part of ongoing efforts to monitor the state’s growing wolf population and reduce conflicts with livestock.
According to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the helicopter-capture operations took place between Jan. 12 and Jan. 20 across Lassen, Modoc, Shasta, Siskiyou and Tehama counties. The wolves were associated with the Whaleback and Harvey packs.
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Ranchers could kill endangered Mexican grey wolves without permits under GOP proposal
From AZMirror.com:
Republican lawmakers pushed through a slew of bills Monday that would allow the endangered Mexican grey wolf to be killed, removed from its endangered category and give the legislature regulatory authority over hunting and fishing.
The House Committee on Land, Agriculture and Rural Affairs heard a number of bills Monday, with four of them directly aimed at the Mexican grey wolf.
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Laura Clellan, tapped as interim Colorado Parks and Wildlife boss, named sole finalist for the permanent job
From ColoradoSun.com:
Laura Clellan, who has led Colorado Parks and Wildlife as acting director since Nov. 25, has been named the sole finalist for the job. She was selected after a search that spanned several weeks and included around 150 candidates.
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Washington Fish and Wildlife officers withdraw from probing wolf attacks on cattle
From CapitalPress.com:
Washington Fish and Wildlife officers in northeast Washington will cut back on investigating wolf attacks on cattle, potentially delaying investigations and exposing an apparent rift between the department’s enforcement division and wildlife biologists. Fish and Wildlife conflict-specialists will still investigate attacks. But they aren’t always available on weekends. Ranchers or local officers may have to guard evidence, i.e. dead livestock, from scavengers.
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Wolf conflicts down in Minnesota after 2024 spike
From StarTribune.com:
Wolf attacks on Minnesota livestock and pets fell sharply in 2025, marking a return to normal for the state.
Federal trappers received a total of 185 complaints about wolf encounters, according to a recently released U.S. Department of Agriculture report. That is down from a record 252 calls in 2024 and slightly below the annual average for the last decade-plus.
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Effort to delist Mexican gray wolves, led by Arizona’s Gosar, is advancing in Congress
From KJZZ.com:
The wild population of Mexican gray wolves in the United States was 286 at last count. That’s well below the number set by federal scientists to take it off the endangered species list.
Congress has never delisted a species that still meets the legal definition of endangered. But with backing from ranchers, an effort to do just that is advancing in Congress.
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A gray wolf was found in LA County for the first time in 100 years
From LAIst.com:
Howl about this for the history books? A wolf was found in L.A. County for the first time in a century on Saturday morning.
“It’s the furthest south the gray wolves have been documented since their reintroduction into Yellowstone and Idaho just over 30 years ago,” said Axel Hunnicutt, the state gray wolf coordinator for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
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Five gray wolves collared in NorCal, reducing conflicts with livestock
From Yahoo.com:
(FOX40.COM) — California wildlife officials have fitted satellite collars on five gray wolves in Northern California as part of ongoing efforts to monitor the state’s growing wolf population and reduce conflicts with livestock.
According to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the helicopter-capture operations took place between Jan. 12 and Jan. 20 across Lassen, Modoc, Shasta, Siskiyou and Tehama counties. The wolves were associated with the Whaleback and Harvey packs.
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On their own, wolves walk into Washington state
From MethowValleyNews.com:
In 2008, Canadian wolves didn’t wait for an invitation from biologists to move them into Washington state. Instead, they trotted across the border because they liked the territory.
The pair that found each other to form Washington’s first wolf pack came from far-flung places: the Canadian Rockies and the British Columbia coast. The spontaneous recolonization has become a notable success story.
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Closure gives cougars, wolves space and security to hunt on Banff’s Tunnel Mountain
From TownaAndCountryToday.com:
BANFF – Cougars and wolves hunting elk and deer on the slopes of Tunnel Mountain have forced closure of an area for the next two months.
The seasonal closure around Tunnel Mountain and east of Tunnel Mountain to the Hoodoo Trailhead, which lies within important winter hunting habitat for carnivores as well as crucial winter range for ungulates, came into effect on Jan. 24 and runs until March 31.
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Wolf reduction boosts caribou survival—but only in rugged terrain
From UBC.ca:
Reducing wolves to protect endangered caribou doesn’t always deliver the expected results—and the shape of the land may be the deciding factor.
That’s according to research led by doctoral student Tazarve Gharajehdaghipour and professor Dr. Cole Burton in the faculty of forestry and environmental stewardship, which examined newborn caribou survival in Itcha Ilgachuz Park in west-central B.C.
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