From Boise State Public Radio:
We’ve heard a lot of stories about wolf recovery in Idaho and about grizzly bear recovery and about bringing buffalo back to the West, but we haven’t heard much about how they all work together on the landscape and how important it is for them to coexist with each other.
Many of the people who are working to keep these animals in the west are now working together and they’re hosting a series of talks called “Coexistence: Stories from Wolf, Grizzly Bear, and Buffalo Country.” From Ketchum to Boise, they’re spreading the word about why coexistence is so important.
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This wolf in Ethiopia survived where it seemed impossible — but the real impact came after its release
From Futura-Sciences.com:
In May 2020, high in Ethiopia’s Simien Mountains, conservationists made a decision no one had attempted before. After discovering an Ethiopian wolf shot and left with a shattered leg, researchers chose to intervene, capturing, treating and ultimately releasing one of the world’s rarest carnivores back into the wild. What followed reshaped both local conservation efforts and how nearby communities viewed a predator once thought beyond saving.
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Federal agents kill two more wolves in Baker County [Oregon]
From BakerCityHerald.com:
BAKER CITY — Employee from U.S. Wildlife Services, a federal agency, trapped and killed two wolves in the Keating Valley east of Baker City on Tuesday, Feb. 3. That brings to three the total of wolves killed there in the past week after a series of wolf attacks on cattle prompted the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to authorize agents to kill up to four wolves from the Black Pines Pack.
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Remote cameras in Yellowstone capture cougars and wolves on the hunt. The footage reveals something important
From DiscoverWildlife.com:
Imagine being a cougar in Yellowstone National Park in the northern USA. Until the mid-1990s, you were the area’s top predator and could take down the abundant elk – herbivores very closely related to European red deer – almost at will.
Then something changed. Wolves were reintroduced and have slowly increased in number.
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[Colorado] CLLA expands to include gray wolf depredations
From DChieftain.com:
The County Livestock Loss Authority (CLLA) will now accept claims of gray wolf depredations and discussed also including claims from all over the state while still facing financial uncertainty.
“It seems to me that there is a lot of upside to this, and the risks are primarily financial right now, but I think those are minimal because we’re getting ahead of the problem,” CLLA Chair and Catron County Representative Haydn Forward said.
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Plumas County [California] warns hikers and dog walkers after wolf attacks steer in Four Corners
From MyNews4.com:
Plumas County authorities are urging caution after confirming a wolf attack on a steer in the “Four Corners” area north of Chandler Road in Quincy, earlier this week.
The Plumas County Sheriff’s Office was notified on Feb. 4, after a steer that had escaped its enclosure was spotted on game cameras being aggressively circled by what appeared to be a wolf. The owner rushed to the area and reported seeing the wolf run north up the road away from the catch pen.
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Colorado’s ‘out of control’ costs tied to wolf attacks on livestock come under fire by lawmaker
From AspenTimes.com:
As Colorado continues the voter-mandated reintroduction of gray wolves, the state is continuing to refine and improve its process for preventing, investigating, and reporting livestock losses from the predator. This could include changes to how it publicly reports wolf attacks on livestock.
Since Colorado Parks and Wildlife began the gray wolf restoration in December 2023, it has confirmed 51 events of wolf predation on livestock, according to its online tracker.
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Wolves vs. Cougars: New Study Reveals Who Really Dominates Yellowstone
From SciTechDaily.com:
New research shows that encounters between wolves and cougars in Yellowstone National Park are shaped mainly by wolves taking over prey that cougars have already killed. The study also finds that cougars reduce the risk of these encounters by shifting their diet toward smaller animals, which they can consume more quickly and abandon before wolves arrive.
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King Mountain wolf pack patriarch dies during collar operations in Routt County [Colorado]
From SteamboatPilot.com:
The patriarch of the King Mountain wolf pack died during a collaring operation in Routt County on Jan. 28, Colorado Parks and Wildlife announced Tuesday.
The male wolf, tagged 2305, was around 3 years old and among those translocated from Oregon in December 2023. The wolf’s death marks the second this year and the 12th of the 25 wolves Colorado has translocated as part of its gray wolf reintroduction effort.
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Cody Roberts case proceeds as [Wyoming] judge rules wolf’s treatment not covered by predator exemption
From WyoFile.com:
A district court judge who hinted last week he wasn’t persuaded by arguments for dismissing the animal cruelty case against Cody Roberts filed an order Tuesday explaining why he was instead sending the high-profile case toward a trial.
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‘Coexistence is possible:’ Conservation leaders share stories from wolf, grizzly and buffalo country
From Boise State Public Radio:
We’ve heard a lot of stories about wolf recovery in Idaho and about grizzly bear recovery and about bringing buffalo back to the West, but we haven’t heard much about how they all work together on the landscape and how important it is for them to coexist with each other.
Many of the people who are working to keep these animals in the west are now working together and they’re hosting a series of talks called “Coexistence: Stories from Wolf, Grizzly Bear, and Buffalo Country.” From Ketchum to Boise, they’re spreading the word about why coexistence is so important.
Click for the full story.