From the Idaho Statesman:
As a scruffy gray-and-brown wolf stood in a grassy Idaho clearing, it fixed its gaze straight ahead. Another dark wolf trotted down a muddy dirt road. A third stepped over gravelly terrain, its mouth open as it panted in the sun. Motion-triggered cameras, placed by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, snapped photos of the wild animals along trails. Later, the agency would use those photos to help determine the number of wolves residing in Idaho.
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Wolves back in Belgium after 100 years, sparking controversy
From the BBC:
The researcher from the Flemish Institute for Nature and Forest Research (INBO) walks us along a countryside track in Belgium’s eastern province of Limburg.
It’s not long before he spots a wolf print that most of us would never notice. The front paw track, lightly pressed into the mud, is probably just a few days old.
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Another Wild Wolf Killed in New York, Radio-Isotope Test Confirms
From the Center for Biological Diversity:
ALBANY, N.Y.— Conservation groups announced today that testing by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the New York State Museum revealed that a wolf killed in upstate New York in 2021 was eating a wild diet and was a wild wolf.
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British Columbia: Kootenay student starts petition to end wolf culling
From TheSaxon.org:
A student from the Kootenays in the southeastern British Columbia, launched a petition that has already garnered more than 43,000 signatures calling on the province to stop killing wolves to save caribou.
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The Usual Suspects: In Colorado, Wolves Blamed For Losses They Didn’t Cause
From MountainJournal.org:
How does Idaho count wolves? Critics say state uses ‘smoke and mirrors,’ misleads public
From the Idaho Statesman:
As a scruffy gray-and-brown wolf stood in a grassy Idaho clearing, it fixed its gaze straight ahead. Another dark wolf trotted down a muddy dirt road. A third stepped over gravelly terrain, its mouth open as it panted in the sun. Motion-triggered cameras, placed by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, snapped photos of the wild animals along trails. Later, the agency would use those photos to help determine the number of wolves residing in Idaho.
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Wisconsin: GOP legislators ready bill calling for wolf population goal
From SpectrumNews1.com in Wisconsion:
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A pair of Republican legislators circulated a bill Friday that would require Wisconsin wildlife officials to establish a new population goal for wolves in the state in their next management plan.
The state Department of Natural Resources has operated since 1999 under a wolf management plan that limits the statewide population to 350 animals.
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Colorado: Are Wolves an Experimental Population? The Answer Could Affect Reintroduction
From Westword.com in Colorado:
A section of Colorado’s draft wolf reintroduction plan proposes strategies for managing wolves that include potentially injurious hazing and lethal control — but that section can’t go forward unless the federal government designates wolves as a nonessential experimental population in Colorado under section 10(j) of the Endangered Species Act.
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Wyoming Wolf Packs Are Gang-Like When It Comes To Protecting Their Turf
From the Cowboy State Daily:
‘Patchwork maps of wild areas in Wyoming and Minnesota show that, not unlike street gangs, wolf packs respect each other’s “colors” in terms of protecting their turf.
When lines are crossed, dismemberment and death can result, a Wyoming biologist said.
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Lawsuit seeks relief for Colorado wolves gunned down at Wyoming border
From The Sheridan Press:
An environmental advocacy group intends to sue unless the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest takes steps to safeguard Colorado wolves that venture across state lines onto federal land in Wyoming.
“When Endangered Species Act-protected wolves in Colorado cross that invisible border and land in Wyoming, then they’re in the predator zone, and don’t have protection,” Center for Biological Diversity staffer Collette Adkins said. “That’s the problem that we’re seeking to remedy by putting pressure on the Forest Service.”
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Wolves kill four cows in NE Oregon
From Capital Press:
FLORA, Ore. — Four dead cows confirmed as wolf kills were discovered in northeastern Oregon earlier this month, along with one injured yearling, according to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.
All of the dead and injured cows were on private land near Flora, which is near the Washington border with Oregon, ODFW reported.
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