From WesternSlopeNow.com:
MESA COUNTY, Colo. (KREX) – U.S. Rep. Jeff Hurd, Third Congressional District, joined his colleagues Monday in criticizing the Colorado Parks and Wildlife for importing Canadian gray wolves into the state over this past weekend.
Hurd, who along with U.S. Reps. Lauren Boebert, Jeff Crank and Gabe Evans, said in a joint statement:
“After years of slighting or outright ignoring Colorado farmers and ranchers with politically appointed anti-agricultural activists and ‘meat-free days,’ bureaucrats in Colorado have rushed through the importation of Canadian gray wolves and have set them loose in our state despite numerous protests and questions about the legality of this dysfunctional and chaotic approach.
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How lynx and wolf reintroductions to Britain could be shaped by preconceptions and psychology
From TheConversation.com:
Four lynx were recently and illegally released into the Scottish highlands. The news prompted searchers to comb the Cairngorms region, the UK’s biggest national park. People were warned not to approach the animals if they encountered them.
The astonishing recovery of lynx, wolf and bear populations across Europe over the last three decades is forcing us to confront our innate responses to animals like these once more. Now, with the idea of large carnivore reintroductions to Britain gathering pace, we are having to consider our potential relationship with them here.
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Wolves From Canada Arrive In Colorado, Nobody’s Saying Where They’ll Be Released
From Cowboy State Daily:
Wolves from British Columbia, Canada, were flown into Colorado, but officials aren’t saying where they’ll be released, stirring up renewed criticism that the state’s wolf reintroduction program is too secretive.
“People are more upset about them being so secretive about it than they are about the wolves being here,” Garfield County, Colorado, commissioner Perry Will told Cowboy State Daily on Monday.
“Some are even disgusted,” he added.
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Endangered Mexican wolf pups born at Brookfield Zoo Chicago begin journey back to the wild
From Fox32Chicago:
BROOKFIELD, Ill. – In this morning’s Good News Guarantee, volunteer pilots are keeping animals we know and love from becoming extinct, and their mission begins at Brookfield Zoo Chicago. They are tiny but mighty. Seven Mexican wolf pups, born at Brookfield Zoo Chicago, are on a journey into the wild.
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Hurd, Boebert among critics of gray wolves’ importation over past weekend
From WesternSlopeNow.com:
MESA COUNTY, Colo. (KREX) – U.S. Rep. Jeff Hurd, Third Congressional District, joined his colleagues Monday in criticizing the Colorado Parks and Wildlife for importing Canadian gray wolves into the state over this past weekend.
Hurd, who along with U.S. Reps. Lauren Boebert, Jeff Crank and Gabe Evans, said in a joint statement:
“After years of slighting or outright ignoring Colorado farmers and ranchers with politically appointed anti-agricultural activists and ‘meat-free days,’ bureaucrats in Colorado have rushed through the importation of Canadian gray wolves and have set them loose in our state despite numerous protests and questions about the legality of this dysfunctional and chaotic approach.
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Wolves score a win in the fight over their protections in the US
From HumaneSociety.org:
In a victory for wolves, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently denied two petitions filed by trophy hunting organizations aimed at removing federal Endangered Species Act protections for wolves in the Western Great Lakes region and reducing or removing protections for wolves in other areas of the lower 48 states.
Wolves (outside of the Northern Rocky Mountain region) remain safely protected—at least for now. But the attempt to remove their protections continues, and it is multipronged: We are still in court fighting the Fish and Wildlife Service’s most recent attempt to delist wolves nationwide, a policy the agency is trying to reinstate through a meritless appeal. And we’ve brought a separate lawsuit seeking to restore desperately needed protections to wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains, where they face extreme levels of state-sponsored killing.
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Developments in Effort to Restore Red Wolves to NC
From PBS North Carolina:
Human families need to move sometimes to accommodate growing families and find new opportunities.
It turns out the same is true for critically endangered red wolves.
The Museum of Life and Science’s family of seven red wolves is moving from Durham to the Wolf Conservation Center in South Salem, New York. Biologists believe relocating the family to the new facility offers the best chance for the first-time parents to breed again.
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Wolf-livestock conflict hit new high in Washington last year
From The Spokesman-Review:
Conflict between wolves and livestock hit a high in Washington in 2024.
Wolves injured or killed at least 56 cattle in the state in 2024, according to Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife records.
The total, which includes confirmed and probable depredations, is the highest the department has recorded since it started tracking wolf-livestock conflict, and it’s more than double the total cattle injured by wolves in 2023.
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Sweden begins Wolf cull
From BirdGuides.com:
Sweden has this month begun culling its Wolf population in a move campaigners say is illegal under EU law.
The cull officially began on Thursday 2 January, with the country aiming to halve the population of the canid. Five entire families can be killed, totalling 30 individual Wolves.
Sweden’s Wolf population dropped by almost 20% in 2022-23 and there are now an estimated 375 individuals in the country. The decline is due to increased hunting pressure, and the government announced that it intendedto halve the population, with 170 Wolves becoming the new minimum level for “favourable conservation status”, instead of the current minimum of 300.
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CPW starts gray wolf relocation operation in British Columbia
From SteamboatPilot.com:
Colorado Parks and Wildlife began its gray wolf capture operations Friday in the Canadian province of British Columbia as part of its Wolf Restoration and Management Plan objectives for 2025.
The operation will see 15 wolves captured and relocated to Colorado under an agreement reached between the agency and the British Columbia Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship. Colorado voters approved the state’s wolf restoration work in a 2020 ballot measure and CPW says it plans to release 10-15 wolves on the Western Slope each year for the three to five years as outlined in the restoration management plan.
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Survey: Idaho Big-Game Hunters Would Ban Drones and Thermals, But Keep Most Other Tech
From OutdoorLife.com:
Idaho’s big-game hunters generally think that modern hunting technology in the form of conventional optics and firearms, digital mapping services, and even ATVs and side-by-sides is acceptable. But they overwhelmingly think thermal, night-vision devices, and drones violate fair-chase ethical standards and oppose their use in big-game seasons.
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