From The FencePost.com:
Today, Congressman Tom Tiffany, R-Wis., and Congresswoman Lauren Boebert’s, R-Colo., legislation to delist the gray wolf from the Endangered Species List and ensure that action is not subject to judicial review passed out of the House Natural Resources Committee. The Pet and Livestock Protection Act will restore authority back to state lawmakers and state wildlife officials to control the gray wolf population. H.R. 845 will now head to the full House of Representatives for a vote.
“The damage to pets, livestock and wildlife from an unmanaged wolf population can no longer be ignored. The gray wolf has exceeded federal and state recovery goals, with over 1,000 wolves now thriving in Wisconsin. It’s time to take the next step, delist them, and let the people closest to the gray wolf manage their population levels,” said Congressman Tiffany.
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Colorado wolf reported dead in Wyoming
From SkyHiNews.com:
Colorado Parks and Wildlife has reported a male gray wolf relocated to the state from Canada last summer as deceased in Wyoming, according to a news statement.
On Friday, April 11, Parks and Wildlife confirmed “the mortality of male gray wolf 2513 on April 9 in Wyoming,” according to the release. The wildlife agency said the wolf was part of the group translocated to Colorado from British Columbia, Canada in June 2024. Parks and Wildlife “coordinated with Wyoming Game and Fish for the return of its tracking collar, however Wyoming state law prevents further detail from being shared,” added the release.
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Cincinnati Zoo Plays Major Role in Recovery Success for Mexican Wolves
From CincinnatiZoo.org:
CINCINNATI (April 9, 2025) – Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden has been instrumental in re-establishing a species that was considered extinct in the wild in the late 1970s. From assembling the annual management meeting to determine the best placement for Mexican gray wolves in human care to constructing a new habitat at the Zoo and a new breeding center at an off-site property, Cincinnati Zoo is all in on Mexican wolf conservation.
“This species was once considered extinct in the wild, and our curator of mammals, Kim Scott, has played a key role in their recovery. At one point in her career, she was responsible for nearly half of the Mexican wolves in existence,” said Cincinnati Zoo director Thane Maynard.
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ABQ [New Mexico] BioPark works to conserve Mexican gray wolves
From KOB.com:
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Conservationists are working to make sure the Mexican gray wolves does not need to be brought back from extinction. Experts say they almost went extinct back in the 1970s, but decades of conservation and rehabilitation efforts are giving the wolves a fighting chance at survival.
The most recent data shows there’s at least 286 Mexican gray wolves living throughout New Mexico and Arizona right now. Conservationists say those numbers are expected to keep going up. “This is a species to celebrate. This is angling towards a real success story for the Endangered Species Act,” said Greta Anderson, deputy director of the Western Watersheds Project.
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Washington wolf report: Fewer wolves, more mauled cattle, no westward movement
From CapitalPress.com:
Washington’s wolf population declined in 2024, even as attacks on livestock reached an all-time high, according to the state Department of Fish and Wildlife. Fish and Wildlife and the Colville tribe counted 230 wolves, down from 254 the year before. It was the first time the population dropped since the department started counting wolves in 2008. The department documented 37 wolf mortalities, only one more than in 2023 and the same number as in 2022.
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One Colorado wolf’s trek has spanned hundreds of miles
From 9News.com:
MONTROSE COUNTY, Colo. — Montrose County said on Wednesday that a lone collared wolf which was spotted in that Western Slope county has gone on a journey of hundreds of miles in just the past few weeks.
Since wolves were reintroduced in Colorado in December 2023, it’s been rare to get a glimpse into the movements of an individual wolf.
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Colorado range riders on the ground as calving season underway, wolf depredations continue
From Coloradoan.com:
Six of 12 range riders hired by Colorado Parks and Wildlife to deter wolves from livestock are ready to go, and the second six are expected to be on the ground by the end of April. For ranchers, the riders can’t come soon enough with calving season underway, wolf depredations continuing and wolves getting ready to den.
The latest depredation of livestock recently confirmed on Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s wolf depredation page took place March 3 when a yearling heifer was killed in Pitkin County. There have been three wolf depredations in February and March, which previously have been quiet times for depredations.
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From wild to woof: Exploring the evolutionary divide between dogs and wolves
From Wisconsin Public Radio:
Grey wolves have lived in the northern hemisphere for hundreds of thousands of years. They are the living ancestors of today’s beloved domestic dogs.
Wolves and dogs share many similarities. However, there are a few important differences in the ways they interact with humans, said Patricia McConnell, an applied animal behaviorist who’s worked with and studied dogs for more than 25 years.
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Tiffany’s wolf delisting bill clears [U.S.] house Natural Resources Committee
From The FencePost.com:
Today, Congressman Tom Tiffany, R-Wis., and Congresswoman Lauren Boebert’s, R-Colo., legislation to delist the gray wolf from the Endangered Species List and ensure that action is not subject to judicial review passed out of the House Natural Resources Committee. The Pet and Livestock Protection Act will restore authority back to state lawmakers and state wildlife officials to control the gray wolf population. H.R. 845 will now head to the full House of Representatives for a vote.
“The damage to pets, livestock and wildlife from an unmanaged wolf population can no longer be ignored. The gray wolf has exceeded federal and state recovery goals, with over 1,000 wolves now thriving in Wisconsin. It’s time to take the next step, delist them, and let the people closest to the gray wolf manage their population levels,” said Congressman Tiffany.
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Colossal’s de-extincted ‘dire wolf’ isn’t a dire wolf and it has not been de-extincted, experts say
From LiveScience.com:
Scientists recently revealed that they have “brought back” extinct dire wolves thanks to genetic engineering — but experts say the newly created animals are only like dire wolves in appearance.
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A “de-extinction” startup wants to save North Carolina’s red wolves from collapse
From Axios.com:
Colossal Biosciences, a Texas company attempting to bring back extinct animals such as dire wolves and woolly mammoths, believes its technology could also help endangered species, including North Carolina’s red wolves, from population collapse.
Why it matters: The red wolf, which once roamed most of the eastern and southern portions of the U.S., is one of the world’s most endangered wolves, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. A little more than 200 red wolves live in captivity, but fewer than 20 exist in the wild — all in a rural five-county section of northeastern North Carolina. But their numbers continue to fall, with many being hit by cars or being shot.
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