From Route Fifty:
Fall can conjure up images of pumpkin spice lattes, flannels and duck boots, but for others, it’s hunting season. As hunters across the country ready their rifles and set their traps, states are reviewing their wildlife management plans to ensure a healthy, sustainable future for their animal populations.
Last month, for the first time in 20 years, Montana updated its gray wolf conservation and management plan to make way for better wolf population monitoring and offer recommendations for sustainable population control methods. The state is exploring how wildlife can be leveraged to create a resilient environment.
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States revisit wildlife management with an eye on resilience
From Route Fifty:
Fall can conjure up images of pumpkin spice lattes, flannels and duck boots, but for others, it’s hunting season. As hunters across the country ready their rifles and set their traps, states are reviewing their wildlife management plans to ensure a healthy, sustainable future for their animal populations.
Last month, for the first time in 20 years, Montana updated its gray wolf conservation and management plan to make way for better wolf population monitoring and offer recommendations for sustainable population control methods. The state is exploring how wildlife can be leveraged to create a resilient environment.
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‘Little red riding hood syndrome’ — wolf controversy in the UP
From Michigan Farm News:
The state’s Natural Resources Commission wants to know more before deciding whether to allow the hunting of wolves — if Michigan’s largest predator is taken off the federal endangered species list.
Although protected nationally, the state’s wolf population has stayed stable for the past 12 years. The number ranges between 600 and 700 each year in the Upper Peninsula. Nationally there are about 16,000 wolves.
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Colorado rancher says wildlife agency confirmed wolf killed 3 of his sheep
From NBC 9News:
JACKSON COUNTY, Colo — For the first time in eight months, Colorado’s wolves have killed livestock — and for the first time, that livestock was sheep.
North Park rancher Brian Anderson told the Coloradoan on Saturday that Colorado Parks and Wildlife confirmed three of his 100-pound lambs were killed by at least one wolf early Friday morning on the ranch about 5 miles south of Walden.
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Nonprofit to help CO reintroduce wolves for free
From KFKA:
Wolves could be roaming in Colorado in just a few weeks. The nonprofit Light Hawk Aviation has agreed to help Colorado relocate wolves from Oregon for free. Normally, it would cost thousands of dollars, but Light Hawk said Colorado’s wolf reintroduction fits with their mission to use aviation to make conservation efforts more efficient and effective. The Grand Junction-based organization has helped with Mexican gray wolf and red wolf relocations over the past decade and said transporting the wolves by air will put far less stress on the animals. Colorado can take up to ten wolves from Oregon with a release date any time after December 8.
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ODFW confirms wolf depredation in Union County
From The Observer:
LA GRANDE — Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife investigators have confirmed another wolf depredation on livestock in Union County.
According to a press release, a 5-month old calf, determined to have been injured by a wolf, was found on private land in the Beagle Creek area of Union County on Friday, Nov. 17.
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Colorado to release gray wolves: Here’s when, where and why.
From USA Today:
DENVER ‒ Colorado officially launches a controversial experiment next month: State officials will release up to 10 gray wolves as mandated by a 2020 state law that unleashed proverbial howls of protest from opponents.
Wolves have long been a divisive species, particularly in rural areas where many farmers and ranchers consider them an unacceptable risk to both humans and livestock. But for many Americans, they evoke a powerful and meaningful emotional connection with wild places and the natural world.
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Wolf suspected of killing dog in Dawson City, Yukon, has been euthanized, wildlife officials say
From CBC News:
A wolf suspected of attacking a dog earlier this month in Dawson City, Yukon, has been trapped and euthanized, according to conservation officers.
In a social media post on Friday, conservation officers said the animal was caught within a kilometre of where the dog was attacked.
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Northwoods Republican responds to issues facing residents like water quality, wolf management
From Wisconsin Public Radio:
Amid leadership turnover at Wisconsin’s environmental agency and distrust in drinking water, a Northwoods legislator says the state should take incremental policy steps to address concerns like toxic PFAS chemicals.
State Rep. Jeff Mursau, R-Crivitz, leads the state Assembly’s Committee on Forestry, Parks and Outdoor Recreation. During a recent appearance on WPR’s “The Morning Show,” Mursau said Democrats and Republicans can find common ground on environmental issues.
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AP US wildlife managers have no immediate plans to capture wandering Mexican gray wolf
From Herald Review Media:
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — It’s been a long journey for one lone Mexican gray wolf — from the forests of southeastern Arizona, across the dusty high desert of central New Mexico to the edge of what is known as the Yellowstone of the Southwest.
Her paws have seen hundreds of miles now over the last five months.
Having reached Valles Caldera National Preserve in northern New Mexico, she has wandered far beyond the boundaries established along the Arizona-New Mexico border for managing the rarest subspecies of gray wolf in North America. The recovery area — spanning tens of thousands of square miles — is home to more than 240 of the endangered predators.
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Research shows humans alter wolf-deer relationships
From The Mining Journal:
MARQUETTE — New research from the Voyageurs Wolf Project in northern Minnesota — a collaborative team that includes a Northern Michigan University professor and two alumni — sheds light on how humans are having a profound impact on wolf-deer relationships by altering forest ecosystems.
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