From RogueValleyTimes.com
Cattle ranchers in the remote area between Butte Falls and Prospect say they’re not crying wolf about an alarming increase in the number of cattle being killed by gray wolves who reportedly are growing in both population and brazenness.
Butte Falls rancher Ron Anderson, 81, reported between one and three encounters per night between his cattle and a pack of up to 14 wolves that den near his Rancheria cattle ranch, stalk and kill cattle during day and nighttime hours and have attacked and fed on calves just steps away from the front door of his home.
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An increase in Anchorage wolf encounters sparks curiosity, not alarm
From AlaskaPublic.org:
Emily Freitas has lived on the border of Far North Bicentennial Park for a decade, but it wasn’t until late August when she first saw a pack of wolves in the city. She was walking her three dogs on a trail less than a half-mile from her East Anchorage home.
“The first wolf came out of the woods, and then the dogs just froze, and then the rest came out. It just stood there and stayed. They all just stared at each other for five [or] 10 minutes,” she said. It was around 9 p.m. when she saw the six wolves. They were about 50 yards away – close enough that Freitas snapped a picture of the pack staring directly back at her.
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Roaming Mexican gray wolf moved south of I-40 a second time
From Yahoo.com:
Nov. 11—New Mexico’s Department of Game and Fish relocated an endangered Mexican gray wolf on Friday after it strayed from is boundary a second time, drawing criticism from advocacy groups. Male wolf 3065, nicknamed Taylor by conservationists, was captured north of Gallina by helicopter and then released in the Gila National Forest in Grant County, according to a Game and Fish news release. Since late October, the wolf has made significant movements north, showing no signs of returning to the recovery area.
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Amid 10 dead wolves and federal interference, Colorado’s wolf reintroduction program is struggling
From ColoradoSun.com:
Colorado’s wolf restoration program is struggling amid federal roadblocks over where the state can source new wolves for reintroduction and the death of a 10th translocated wolf.
The latest wolf fatality, announced Friday, puts the survival rate for the reintroduced wolves at 60%. That’s well below the anticipated survival rate of 70% to 85% for the early years of Colorado’s wolf reintroduction program, according to the Colorado Wolf Management Plan. CPW released 10 wolves in December 2023 and another 15 in January 2025.
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Infamous [Wyoming] wolf captor Cody Roberts pleads not guilty, trial set for March
From WyoFile.com:
PINEDALE—The Sublette County man who allegedly snowmobiled into a wolf and then brought it into a Western Wyoming bar for hours to amuse friends and family will fight his felony charge, sending one of the country’s highest-profile animal cruelty cases in years toward a trial.
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New Mexico Fish and Game stops wandering wolf “Taylor” in his tracks, sends him south for the second time
From WesternWatersheds.org:
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Conservation groups are condemning the decision by the New Mexico Department of Fish and Game (NMDFG) to remove a wandering male Mexican gray wolf from the northern part of the state late last week.
His removal marks the second time that the agency has tried to confine him south of Interstate 40, asserting that wolves must stay within the arbitrary bounds of the Mexican Gray Wolf Experimental Population Area (MWEPA), which represents only some of the suitable wolf habitat in the Southwest and which was delineated for political rather than scientific reasons.
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A Colorado doctor wanted the facts on wolf reintroduction. So he created a watchdog group on Facebook.
From ColoradoSun.com:
John Michael Williams thinks Colorado is withholding information on reintroduced wolves from citizens. In changing that, did he create an extremist group?
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Bergman urges delisting of the gray wolf from endangered species list
From TheAlpenaNews.com:
Washington – Rep. Jack Bergman and a coalition of House Members are calling on newly confirmed U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Director Brian Nesvik to immediately delist the gray wolf under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and return management authority to states and local tribes.
In a letter sent to Director Nesvik, Rep. Bergman and 24 of his colleagues congratulated him on his confirmation and urged the FWS to rely on science – not politics – in determining the gray wolf’s current status.
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[Oregon] Area ranchers alarmed by livestock losses to growing Grouse Ridge wolf pack
From RogueValleyTimes.com
Cattle ranchers in the remote area between Butte Falls and Prospect say they’re not crying wolf about an alarming increase in the number of cattle being killed by gray wolves who reportedly are growing in both population and brazenness.
Butte Falls rancher Ron Anderson, 81, reported between one and three encounters per night between his cattle and a pack of up to 14 wolves that den near his Rancheria cattle ranch, stalk and kill cattle during day and nighttime hours and have attacked and fed on calves just steps away from the front door of his home.
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Wolf killed in an accident in the province of Antwerp
From BrusselsTimes.com:
The animal welfare group Welkom Wolf received a report early Friday morning regarding a wolf killed in a road accident in Geel. The accident, which happened at around 2:00 am, resulted in the death of the wolf but caused only minor damage to the vehicle involved. Photos confirmed that the animal was a European wolf, according to Jan Loos from the organisation Landschap.
The animal’s remains were collected by a shelter in Oudsbergen and will later be transferred to the Flemish Institute for Nature and Forest Research (INBO).
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Special hunts and the limits of recreational hunting [Switzerland]
From WildBeimWild.com:
The 2025 hunting season will see a significant increase in special hunts in several Swiss cantons. While authorities consider recreational hunting necessary to regulate allegedly “excessive” game populations and protect the forest, the IG Wild beim Wild (Interest Group for Wildlife) sharply criticizes this approach.
Official hunting policy still ignores natural regulators like the wolf, follows economic interests, and thereby endangers biodiversity and consumer health.
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