From The Steamboat Pilot:
In early August, Colorado Parks and Wildlife announced that a licensed hunter had killed a gray wolf in January after reportedly mistaking it for a coyote. The hunter was leveled with a $139.50 fine and some suspension points on his hunting license.
The disciplinary action was criticized by wildlife and wolf advocates, who expressed concerns that it was not a harsh enough punishment to disincentivize individuals from killing gray wolves in the future — particularly amid the state’s controversial and emotionally charged wolf reintroduction program.
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The wolf and its many ‘big, bad’ myths
From ExploreBigSky.com:
Like a shadow, the North American wolf’s mythic reputation looms larger and darker than the actual being. How wolves have been perceived globally—and their impact on prosperous industries—has led to a wide eradication of the species over hundreds of years, a 2026 documentary film outlines.
At the Ellen Theatre in Bozeman, the local premiere of “In the Company of Wolves: An American Journey” followed by a panel of experts explained what it means when wolves disappear and how perspectives are changing.
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Colorado Parks and Wildlife defends charges against hunter who killed wolf in January, amid concerns of leniency
From The Steamboat Pilot:
In early August, Colorado Parks and Wildlife announced that a licensed hunter had killed a gray wolf in January after reportedly mistaking it for a coyote. The hunter was leveled with a $139.50 fine and some suspension points on his hunting license.
The disciplinary action was criticized by wildlife and wolf advocates, who expressed concerns that it was not a harsh enough punishment to disincentivize individuals from killing gray wolves in the future — particularly amid the state’s controversial and emotionally charged wolf reintroduction program.
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The National Forests Where Wolves Still Hunt
From WorldAtlas.com:
The big, bad wolf has an intimidating reputation, but by and large, North American grey wolves aren’t aggressive to humans. That said, wolves in the United States have faced significant threats to their populations, including habitat loss and humans hunting them. But in America’s National Forests, some still walk free in the country’s wilds.
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What can working dogs tell us about how wolves are moving across the landscape?
From Vail Daily:
Wild Ranch and Working Dogs for Conservation came together for 10 days in North Park in August to test a new idea to aid producers dealing with wolf-livestock conflict.
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Young wolves disperse more when well fed
From The Wildlife Society:
Should they stay or should they go? How young wolves make this decision has less to do with them clashing with their families and more to do with food availability and wolf density.
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Northwest Colorado remains a hotbed for gray wolf activity in August
From The Aspen Times:
Colorado’s collared gray wolves remained centralized in the state’s northwestern region in August.
While the region contains the territories for all four of Colorado’s reproducing packs — and a fifth non-reproducing pack — wolf activity also pressed against the state’s borders with Wyoming and Utah during the past month.
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As British Columbia mulls continued wolf-killing to save caribou, critics say habitat loss is the real threat
From Mongabay:
The government of the Canadian province of British Columbia is in talks to extend its decade-long wolf cull program by another five years. Since 2015, the province has killed wolves in areas with declining populations of endangered woodland caribou as part of its Caribou Recovery Program.
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California Wolf Center plans to expand education, conservation efforts
From Yahoo.com:
The California Wolf Center is preparing for a major expansion that leaders say will make its education programs more accessible and broaden its focus beyond wolves to other native California predators.
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Gray Wolf OR-213 Spotted Along Cascade Lakes Highway [Oregon]
From KQEN News Radio:
A dispersing male gray wolf originating from the Indigo Pack has been seen frequently around the Cascade Lakes Highway corridor in recent weeks.
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Wolves stand to benefit as bear hunting begins in Minnesota
From Yahoo.com:
Minnesota hunters have set up bait piles in advance of bear-hunting season, which begins Tuesday, and wolves are capitalizing.
The accompanying trail-cam footage shows a black bear chasing a wolf from a bait pile, and both animals feeding at the pile minutes later.
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