From The Aspen Times:
As winter approaches, so does Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s deadline to secure a source for gray wolves if it wants to release additional animals this year.
Parks and Wildlife’s wolf management plan recommends that the agency release 30 to 50 wolves in the program’s first three to five years to build a self-sustaining population as mandated by voters. During the first two winters of its reintroduction effort, the state wildlife agency tracked toward this goal, releasing 25 wolves from Oregon and British Columbia.
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Minnesota Wolf Crisis in Crosshairs of New Documentary
From AgWeb.com:
“Fed to the Wolves,” debuts Oct. 1, and its producers contend it reveals deep damage to agriculture and hunting in rural Minnesota and lack of action by state officials.
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How wolf worship in a Japanese village helped unlock an extinct species’ DNA
From AsianNews.Network:
Genuine skulls and bones belonging to the long-extinct Japanese wolf species have recently been found in private homes across Kiyokawa, a village in Japan’s Kanagawa Prefecture – owing to the community’s wolf-worshipping tradition, passed down through generations.
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[Washington] Wildlife managers mull killing additional member of Couse pack
From Moscow-Pullman Daily News:
The killing of a member of the Couse wolf pack last week did not deter the animals from preying on cattle.
According to a Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife news release, a calf was injured by wolves Wednesday and the agency is considering killing another member of the pack.
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Will Colorado find wolves to release this winter?
From The Aspen Times:
As winter approaches, so does Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s deadline to secure a source for gray wolves if it wants to release additional animals this year.
Parks and Wildlife’s wolf management plan recommends that the agency release 30 to 50 wolves in the program’s first three to five years to build a self-sustaining population as mandated by voters. During the first two winters of its reintroduction effort, the state wildlife agency tracked toward this goal, releasing 25 wolves from Oregon and British Columbia.
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CPW killed 2 yearling wolves in 1 day. A biologist says this weakens the region’s genetic diversity.
From ColoradoSun.com:
Colorado wildlife agents shot and killed two yearling wolves from separate packs on Sept. 7, after the wolves killed multiple livestock over three months in Pitkin and Rio Blanco counties.
Wolf advocate Courtney Vail, board chair of the Rocky Mountain Wolf Project, said she has questions over how Colorado Parks and Wildlife determined the wolves were responsible for the attacks.
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What Trump’s order to delist gray wolves means for Colorado’s reintroduction
From SteamboatPilot.com:
President Donald Trump ordered the federal government to look at delisting gray wolves and Mexican gray wolves over the next 90 days.
In Colorado, where voters mandated the reintroduction of gray wolves in 2020, the change in federal protections would have little impact on how the state manages the species.
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Coyotes? Wolves? Who knows? Animal sighting near Deer Lake [Canada] baffles online community
From CBC.ca:
When Nikita Compton came across a small pack of four animals during an outdoors trip on Monday, she thought she was looking at a group of coyotes.
But in the days since, thousands of eagle-eyed watchers have put what she saw up for interpretation.
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Grizzlies Are Killing Far More Livestock in the Rockies Than Wolves
From OutdoorLife.com:
While ranchers across the West welcomed this month’s presidential order to review the legal status of livestock-killing wolves, more cattle have been killed this year by grizzly bears than by wolves in areas where the predator species overlap.
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Where did Colorado’s wolves travel in September?
From SummitDaily.com:
Colorado’s collared gray wolves explored across the Western Slope in September, with movements extending south through the San Juan Mountains as pack activity persists in the north.
This is according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s monthly wolf activity map, which highlights the watersheds where collared wolves were located between Aug. 25 and Sept. 22.
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Genetic monitoring of wolves in Romania’s Southern Carpathians shows decrease in population
From Romania-Insider.com:
Genetic monitoring carried out by the Conservation Carpathia Foundation in the Southern Carpathians showed a dramatic decrease in wolves, which, counterintuitively, may lead to more interactions with humans.
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