From IFLScience.com:
One of the world’s rarest mammals can be found in America. Known as red wolves, they are among the rarest in the world, but there was a time when their range reached from southeastern Texas to central Pennsylvania. However, as of August 2025, the Wolf Conservation Center reports there are just 18 known to remain in the wild in North Carolina.
Known to science as Canis rufus, the species has come under scrutiny in the past, with some questioning if it really represents a unique species or if it is, in fact, a hybrid between gray wolves (C. lupus) and coyotes (C. latrans). So, what does the science say?
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Wolf activity reported in Mesa County [Colorado]
From GJSentinel.com:
One or more collared gray wolves visited northwestern Mesa County during the last month.
The latest monthly map released by Colorado Parks and Wildlife showed collared wolf activity just northwest and west of Grand Junction.
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[Colorado] Producers and others press for wolf pause
From GunnisonTimes.com:
With the release of gray wolves in Gunnison County looming as early as December 2025, a pair of last minute efforts to hit the pause button are underway.
On Sept. 5, the Gunnison County Stockgrowers Association led a group of 28 Colorado organizations and government jurisdictions in filing a “Citizen Petition for Rulemaking” with the Colorado Wildlife Commission. Gunnison County commissioners did not join the petition.
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Colorado Wolf Debate Heats Up Over Claims Diseased Animals Were Released
From CowboyStateDaily.com:
Critics of Colorado’s wolf reintroduction program claim that wolves transplanted from Oregon were infected with a parasitic disease. Wildlife officials say they treated the wolves for the disease before releasing them.
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No Species Lives in Isolation: A conversation about graphic storytelling, wolf-watching, and community, with children’s book author Kathleen Yale
From OrionMagazine.org:
Orion‘s Digital Editor Kathleen Yale’s beautiful new book What Goes on inside a Wolf Pack is more immediately kid-friendly than, say, the graphic storytelling and environmental journalism of Lauren Redniss, but that doesn’t mean its ambition or narrative is watered down — this is an elegant, thought-provoking, and gorgeously illustrated year-long chronicle of life among Yellowstone’s wolves, one that reveals the animal not in isolation, not on a pedestal, but as one thread of this special ecosystem.
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Fans Mourn Popular Yellowstone Wolf Killed By Montana Hunter
From CowboyStateDaily.com:
Fans of one of Yellowstone National Park’s most popular wolves are mourning her death. The young female, 1479F, was reportedly shot legally by a hunter this month after straying out of the park and into Montana.
Wolf 1479F was about 2.5 years old and was killed by a hunter last week, followers of the popular wolf told Cowboy State Daily.
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Wolf attack leaves 3-year-old injured in Indian village as villagers panic amid rising incidents
From AsiaNews.network:
BAHRAICH – Panic gripped a village in Bahraich once again after a wolf attacked a young child in broad daylight. On Tuesday afternoon, a 3-year-old boy playing outside his house in Baba Bangla village, under Kaiserganj tehsil, was suddenly snatched by a wolf in front of his mother. According to eyewitnesses, the child, Prince, son of Raksharam, was playing near the house while family members sat nearby.
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Gray wolves’ return to California tests human tolerance for coexistence
From Mongabay.com:
Gray wolves are making a comeback in the western U.S. state of California after a century-long absence. Conservationists say their return is a success, but it’s putting pressure on ranchers and rural communities as wolf attacks on livestock mount, Mongabay wildlife staff writer Spoorthy Raman reported.
The state’s last wild wolf (Canis lupus) was shot in 1924. The animals didn’t return until 2015, migrating south to California from Oregon. State officials estimate that between 50 and 70 wolves, organized into at least 10 packs, have repopulated the state today.
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Are Red Wolves Hybrids? No, And That’s A Critical Distinction For The World’s Rarest Wolf
From IFLScience.com:
One of the world’s rarest mammals can be found in America. Known as red wolves, they are among the rarest in the world, but there was a time when their range reached from southeastern Texas to central Pennsylvania. However, as of August 2025, the Wolf Conservation Center reports there are just 18 known to remain in the wild in North Carolina.
Known to science as Canis rufus, the species has come under scrutiny in the past, with some questioning if it really represents a unique species or if it is, in fact, a hybrid between gray wolves (C. lupus) and coyotes (C. latrans). So, what does the science say?
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Colorado advances wolf reintroduction despite industry opposition
From KiowaCountyPress.net:
Most of the 2.5 million cattle raised in Colorado will meet their end in a slaughterhouse and become hamburgers and steaks but the state’s powerful livestock industry still cannot seem to stomach sharing a fraction of the meat with the region’s one-time apex predator.
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Does the presence of wolves impact the health of aspens? Debate continues
From DenverGazette.com:
The trickle-down effect of changes within an ecosystem can often be surprising and impactful. With that in mind, one related topic of discussion has long been that of whether or not the presence (or addition of) an apex predator may change the natural landscape – from how rivers flow to population numbers of other species to the health of local flora.
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