From Queen Anne & Magnolia News:
By state standards, should gray wolves in Washington be designated endangered, threatened or simply sensitive?
To weigh in on that question, the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife this week opened a public comment period that continues through May 6.
Currently, gray wolves fall under two separate classifications. By state designation, they are considered endangered across Washington. However, under federal standards, the animals are considered endangered in the western two-thirds of the state but threatened – a lower risk threshold – in the eastern third of Washington. And their numbers have been increasing over the past decade.
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Consequences for killing a gray wolf include potential jail time
From News Nation:
DENVER (KDVR) — With applications for big game hunting licenses opening in March, there are plenty of rules to follow. Among those are the hefty consequences that come from killing a gray wolf.
Gray wolves were reintroduced into the state as an attempt to rebuild Colorado’s wolf population. Even after public pushback, there have been at least 10 wolves released so far.
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Periodic Status Review: Gray Wolf
From Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife:
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) is proposing to reclassify the gray wolf in the state of Washington. If adopted, the gray wolf would move from Endangered status under WAC 220-610-010 to Sensitive status under WAC 220-200-100, reflecting the significant progress toward recovery that Washington’s wolf population has made since the original state listing in 1980.
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Feds offer $50K to solve wolf-killing mystery
From E&E News:
The killing of three federally protected gray wolves in southern Oregon has drawn a $50,000 reward offer from the Fish and Wildlife Service, even as the agency moves at an uncertain pace toward a bigger Endangered Species Act decision about the iconic canine.
According to the Fish and Wildlife Service, the tracking collars of two wolves showed what the FWS termed a “mortality signal” last Dec. 29.
Oregon State Police Fish and Wildlife Division troopers and a biologist from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife tracked the signals to an area east of the town of Bly. The region is considered an “area of known wolf activity.”
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Project studies impact of wolves on Šumava forest regeneration
From Radio Prague International:
Can the growing numbers of wolves in Czechia’s Šumava National Park have a positive impact on local forests? For the next three years, scientists from the Czech University of Life Sciences will be seeking to answer just that question, by monitoring local wolf and deer populations.
In a famous experiment, carried out in the Yellowstone National Park in the United States in the mid-1990s, wolves were reintroduced to the area after more than a 70-year absence. By keeping the growing elk population in check, the wolves managed to revive the park’s forest, which ultimately changed the whole ecosystem of the park.
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HAS IOWA EVER BEEN HOME TO WOLVES?
From K92.3:
Wolves are some of the most complex predators that walk the earth. These highly intelligent animals can be playful, they develop close bonds with their family, and they love their pack just like we humans love ours. There is just something about these apex predators that is cool.
We read about and see wolves all of the time in books and TV shows. There’s something about their strength and loyalty to their family that we as humans are drawn to. Wolves are the largest living wild canine species and wolf packs will normally hunt in a territory that ranges 50 square miles.
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Scientists track longest wolf trek across Europe through its droppings
From Yahoo News:
MADRID (Reuters) – Researchers have traced the droppings of a German-born grey wolf that traversed three countries to reach northeastern Spain, making it the longest journey ever documented for that species, the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) said on Monday.
The male, named GW1909m, travelled at least 1,240 km (770 miles) from his birthplace in Nordhorn, Lower Saxony, crisscrossing France before appearing to settle near a village in the Catalan Pyrenees, where he was last detected in February 2023.
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Stunning drone footage shows wolves digging tunnels through deep snow in northern China
From Sky News:
Drone footage shows a pack of wolves digging tunnels through one-meter-thick snow in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region.
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The Moment a pack of wolves dug a tunnel through the snow in China
From CBC.CA:
A pack of wolves dug a tunnel to get out of snow that was nearly one-metre deep in China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Note: The source of the wolf video is CCTV/Reuters.
Click here to watch video and hear comments by Dr. L. David Mech.
Wildlife conservation groups urge U.S. Forest Service to ban Idaho’s aerial wolf hunting
From Idaho News 2:
BOISE, Idaho (CBS2) — According to a recent news release, over 30 wildlife conservation groups urged the U.S. Forest Service to prohibit Idaho from paying private contractors to shoot wolves from aircraft in national forests in central and southeastern Idaho.
The Idaho Wolf Depredation Control Board recently approved the controversial predator control measure.
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WDFW proposes gray wolves reclassify from ‘state endangered’ to ‘sensitive’
From Queen Anne & Magnolia News:
By state standards, should gray wolves in Washington be designated endangered, threatened or simply sensitive?
To weigh in on that question, the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife this week opened a public comment period that continues through May 6.
Currently, gray wolves fall under two separate classifications. By state designation, they are considered endangered across Washington. However, under federal standards, the animals are considered endangered in the western two-thirds of the state but threatened – a lower risk threshold – in the eastern third of Washington. And their numbers have been increasing over the past decade.
Click here for the full story.