From KOAA.com:
TELLER COUNTY, Colo. — Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) says a gray wolf has entered the state’s Southeast region, including Park, Teller, and Fremont Counties. CPW wants people to be on the lookout for the female wolf for their safety.
“We have mama cows,” said Ranch owner Tom Hatton. Hatton says ranching has been very difficult to do for years. “Coyotes are acclimated. We are also dealing with predations from coyotes,” Hatton said. Hatton says he’s concerned about a wolf in the area.
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9 range riders accept offers to work on ranches to prevent depredations in northwest Colorado
From Denver7.com:
Nine people who have applied to become a range rider in Colorado — a task that involves long days and nights understanding livestock and protecting them from predators, like wolves — have accepted offers from the state.
Officials announced last year that the Colorado Range Rider program would launch in early 2025 and would contract 12 qualified people to work in the northwest region of the state. One of their roles is to keep gray wolves, which were reintroduced in December 2023, away from the livestock.
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Colorado wildlife officials confirm a new wolf discovered in the state
From Coloradoan.com:
Colorado wildlife officials confirmed Friday the state is home to a wolf not released as part of its reintroduction plan, the first such confirmation since 2021.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife said it recently confirmed that a scat sample from the northwest corner of Moffat County tested positive for wolf DNA, “meaning there is at least one uncollared wolf on the landscape in our population estimate that was not part of the agency’s reintroduction efforts.”
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Nash bill would increase money to livestock producers hurt by wolves [Oregon]
From ElkHornMediaGroup.com:
SALEM – Sen. Todd Nash (R-Wallowa) has introduced a bill that he says would make compensation fairer for livestock producers hurt by wolf depredation. He said the legislation has a lucky number. It’s Senate Bill 777.
The measure provides that compensation for injury to livestock or working dogs under the wolf compensation and financial assistance grant program must be based on fair market value as well as other factors. Ward said that many livestock producers have stopped filing for some compensation because of a system they see to be flawed.
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CPW staff went to Canada before commission vote that could have paused wolf reintroductions
From 9News.com:
DENVER — When Colorado Parks and Wildlife commissioners voted in January on whether or not to pause further wolf reintroductions, CPW already had staff in Canada prepared to start capturing wolves, a CPW spokesperson confirmed to 9NEWS.
“The agency had to be ready to start capture operations if the petition to pause reintroduction was denied as the contracts with capture helicopters and other logistical arrangements were in place,” CPW spokesperson Rachael Gonzales told 9NEWS.
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Wildlife regulators are looking for timber wolves in Lower Michigan
From MLive.com:
TRAVERSE CITY, MI – State wildlife officials are again looking for wolves in Lower Michigan.
Scientists with the state Department of Natural Resources want residents of the northern Lower Peninsula to keep their eyes open for gray wolves, also called timber wolves. The official survey period will run from next week on Feb. 17 through March 10.
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New model shows dogs could have domesticated themselves
From NationalGeographic.com:
Maybe dogs didn’t need us at all to domesticate themselves. They may have been drawn to the discarded remains from ancient human meals, and a new model shows tame wolves could have become dogs in as little as 8,000 years.
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Michigan DNR plans wolf survey in the Lower Peninsula; here’s how you can help
From WKYZ.com:
(WXYZ) — The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is asking for the public’s help to conduct a community-based wolf survey in the Lower Peninsula.According to the DNR, they are surveying to detect any potential presence of gray wolves.
It will take place from Feb. 17 through March 10, and the survey will rely on reports of public wolf sightings and other potential evidence.
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7th District Legislators Pine for Local Control of Wolf Management [Washington]
From KPQ.com:
There is broad agreement among Washington’s 7th district legislators, at least insofar as gray wolves are concerned.
East of Highway 97, there reputedly lives a healthy, fast-stabilizing and sometimes disruptive (or worse) wolf population. Legislators here want state law to reflect the attitude of federal watchdogs, who insist gray wolves are in much less trouble than before existentially. Here is a guide – a partial guide, anyway – to wolf-related bills percolating in Olympia. All of them strive to establish “local control of wolf management in the state’s northeastern counties.”
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Ranchers express concerns as lone gray wolf enters Teller County [Colorado]
From KOAA.com:
TELLER COUNTY, Colo. — Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) says a gray wolf has entered the state’s Southeast region, including Park, Teller, and Fremont Counties. CPW wants people to be on the lookout for the female wolf for their safety.
“We have mama cows,” said Ranch owner Tom Hatton. Hatton says ranching has been very difficult to do for years. “Coyotes are acclimated. We are also dealing with predations from coyotes,” Hatton said. Hatton says he’s concerned about a wolf in the area.
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A Bill That Would’ve Outlawed Running Over Wolves, Coyotes with Snowmachines Failed in Wyoming
From OutdoorLife.com:
Chasing and killing predators like wolves and coyotes with snowmachines remains legal in Wyoming even after some lawmakers tried twice to ban the practice Thursday.
The two efforts, a bill called Taking of Predators on Private Lands and another an amendment to an anti-wildlife torture bill, failed largely because the agricultural community says running over carnivores with snowmachines is necessary to manage domestic livestock in the state’s most-rural areas. National media and members of the public, on the other hand, are confusing the practice with hunting.
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