From MyPrinceGeorgeNow.com:
UNBC is joining communities, governments, and other academic partners on the impacts of large-scale wolf removal in the north.
To help with the study, researchers are using carcases collected over the past 15 years to study wolves’ diet, what diseases they carry, and their DNA.
Ecosystem Science and Management Associate Professor Dr. Jamie Gorrell said when trying to protect the caribou, they don’t want to do irreversible damage to the wolf population.
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UNBC Professor collaborating in large-scale wolf removal research
From MyPrinceGeorgeNow.com:
UNBC is joining communities, governments, and other academic partners on the impacts of large-scale wolf removal in the north.
To help with the study, researchers are using carcases collected over the past 15 years to study wolves’ diet, what diseases they carry, and their DNA.
Ecosystem Science and Management Associate Professor Dr. Jamie Gorrell said when trying to protect the caribou, they don’t want to do irreversible damage to the wolf population.
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Nearly 12 And Huge, Yellowstone Wolf 1090F Earns Title Of Oldest In Yellowstone
From CowboyStateDaily.com:
Yellowstone National Park has a new wolf matriarch.
Wolf 1090F has reached the age of 11 years, 9 months, an almost unprecedented age for wolves in Yellowstone, and fans say she’s still going strong.
That makes her the oldest living wolf in the park. She’s surpassed the age of the legendary 907F, who died at roughly 11 years, 8 months old on Christmas Day 2024, a few days after a fight with members of a rival wolf pack.
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[Representative] LaLota a Critical ‘No’ on Wolf Protections
From EastHamptonStar.com:
Republican Representative Nick LaLota of the First Congressional District cast a critical vote on Dec. 18 to remove Endangered Species Act protections for the gray wolf outside of Alaska. The gray wolf was first listed as endangered under the act in 1974.
The vote comes after the Trump administration proposed a series of changes to the act in mid-November. The public comment window on those changes, which could harm some of the East End’s most celebrated species, like the piping plover, monarch butterfly, Eastern tiger salamander, and North Atlantic right whale, ended on Dec. 22.
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Wolf with tracker swims over [Netherlands] rivers, travels 30 kilometres a day
From DutchNews.no:
Five animals have so far been fitted with tracking collars in a study examining how wolves, prey animals and people move through the Dutch landscape, researchers at the Hoge Veluwe national park said on Thursday.
The researchers, led by Wageningen University, have so far tagged one wolf and four deer. More than 400 visitors have also voluntarily carried GPS trackers while walking in the park, covering almost 13,000 kilometres in total.
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[Washington] WDFW and ‘wolf ranger’ call off partnership
From CapitalPress.com:
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife’s partnership with high-profile range-rider Daniel Curry has ended before it began. Fish and Wildlife has asked lawmakers to delete from its budget $200,000 earmarked last spring for Curry’s organization, Project GRIPH, to tackle wolf-livestock conflicts in southeast Washington.
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Wallowa County [Oregon] adopts wolf management policy, urges state action to reduce conflicts
From ElkhornMediaGroup.com:
The Wallowa County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously Wednesday, January 7, to adopt a new county wolf management policy, signaling a strong request for more aggressive state action to address growing conflicts between wolves, livestock producers, and wildlife populations.
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How a Grand County [Colorado] resident is using collaboration, AI and new tech to help producers dealing with wolves
From AspenTimes.com:
At the surface, Colorado’s wolf program can appear rife with conflict. However, many Coloradans are working to bridge gaps between the Front Range and Western Slope, ranchers and wolf advocates, and to reduce conflict between livestock and wolves.
Take Chip Isenhart, and his burgeoning organization Wild Ranch.
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Feds backed Colorado’s plan to get Canadian wolves before abrupt shift, documents show
From ColoradoSun.com:
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service backed Colorado’s plan to obtain wolves from Canada nearly two years before the federal agency lambasted the move as a violation of its rules, newly obtained documents show.
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UM Research: Political Reminders Can Intensify Wolf Divisions
From MissoulaCurrent.com:
(Missoula Current) In a follow-up to their study showing a large majority of Montanans tolerate wolves, University of Montana researchers have shown that people can feel more negative toward wolves when reminded of their political affiliations, often because they overestimate the extent of their group’s negative feelings.
Union County [Oregon] awards over 53 thousand dollars in non-lethal wolf deterrent grant funds
From ElkhornMediaGroup.com:
During a regular commission meeting on Wednesday, January 7, the Union County Board of Commissioners officially approved the allocation of $53,196.31 in non-lethal wolf deterrent grant funding. The funds were initially provided to Union County by the Oregon Department of agriculture, with applications being reviewed by the Union County Wolf Depredation Compensation Advisory Committee on December 16, 2025.
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