From WesternNews.com:

Hiking near Gardiner, Montana, on a recent balmy February day, I hit slushy snow and came across the tracks of one other human, and then some deer and elk.

Soon, I encountered something more surprising: canine tracks that dwarfed my dog’s paws, and lots of them. Wolves.

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FromKING5.com:

CONCRETE, Wash. — Washington state’s wolf population is at its highest level to date since its decimation in the early 20th century, but packs remain primarily concentrated in eastern Washington, raising questions about when — or if — they will return to the western side of the Cascade Range.

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From WTIP.org:

It’s pup season for the region’s wild wolves. Interpretive Center Director Krista Woerheide of the International Wolf Center in Ely told WTIP that raising pups is no easy feat, and it is a hard time for the entire pack.

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From People.com:

National Park, Parco Nazionale d’Abruzzo Lazio e Molise, in Italy, reported that the wolves are a danger to the beloved Marsican brown bear population.

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From SummitDaily.com:

Colorado’s collared gray wolves remained anchored in the state’s northwest corner as denning season peaks.

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From CourthouseNews.com:

RALEIGH, N.C. (CN) — A federal judge found in favor of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Tuesday in a suit over whether the government did enough to protect the red wolf population.

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From OPB.org:

A little-known federal government agency that kills wild animals at the request of ranchers and farmers accidentally killed two federally protected wolves in Southern Oregon last summer.

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s annual wolf population report, published Friday, offered the first disclosure of the accidental gray wolf killings.

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From RV.Times.com:

Annual report shows increase in wolf depredations; former Jackson County Wolf Committee chair to host town hall Thursday on wolf population, depredations.

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From TheCenterSquare.com:

Washington is inching closer to delisting gray wolves as an endangered species.

Once the wolves establish a presence in the Southern Cascades, they’ll meet all of Washington state’s criteria to be delisted as an endangered species under state law. They were nearly elminiated from the state altogether in the 1930s before Washington listed wolves as endangered under state law in 1980.

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From DowntoEarth.org:

In the remote high-altitude stretches of the Kashmir Himalayas, where silence speaks louder than sound and snow muffles every movement, the Himalayan wolf moves unseen, misunderstood, and increasingly endangered.

Once spread across the wild ridgelines and meadows of this landscape, the wolf, a vital apex predator, has now become a vanishing shadow.

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