From Wyoming Public Media:
On Sunday morning the sleepy town of Daniel, Wyoming, population 108, was anything but. The single lane highway through town was lined bumper to bumper with trucks, livestock trailers, semis and hundreds of people.
This was the local response to a weeks-long publicized arrival of a motorcycle brigade of wolf advocates. ‘Hogs for Hope’, which originated in Texas, promised to raise money to bring change to Wyoming’s wolf laws, which they say are insufficient. That’s because earlier this year, Cody Roberts, of Daniel, captured and brought a live, muzzled and allegedly injured wolf into a local bar, later killing it. He was fined $250 by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department for possessing the live animal.
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A Wyoming man is under investigation after bringing an injured wild wolf inside a bar
From WFDD:
Wyoming is home to hundreds of wolves. Most live near Yellowstone National Park, are protected and are a big draw for tourists. But elsewhere in the state, wolves are a reviled predator viewed as a threat to the livestock industry. In those places, killing wolves is legal. One man who did that recently is now under investigation after the animal’s death sparked outrage around the world. Caitlin Tan at Wyoming Public Radio reports.
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Colorado wildlife officials confirm gray wolf depredation in Jackson County
From Steamboat Pilot & Today:
Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials have confirmed a calf killed on a Jackson County ranch over the weekend was the result of a gray wolf attack.
Jackson County rancher Don Gittleson owned the calf that was killed by wolves — one of several incidents his family has reported to CPW in recent years.
“It was eaten up quite a bit, and judging by some of the stuff on the calf, I suspect the calf wasn’t completely dead when they were eating on it,” Gittleson said. “That has kind of been the case with most of them.”
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Austrian farm minister pushes for quick adoption of proposal to lower wolf’s protection status
From Euractiv:
Austrian diplomats will present a note pushing for quick adoption of the proposal to lower the protection status of wolves at a Council meeting on Monday (27 May) but EU countries are split on the issue, with a group of capitals calling for more data on the level of threat posed by the species.
Wolves are a strictly protected species in Europe, meaning they can only be killed under exceptional circumstances.
Last December the European Commission proposed to lower the level of their protection, mainly to preserve livestock and shelter farmers from the economic impact of wolves’ attacks.
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Wyoming Game and Fish share proposed updates to annual wolf hunting regulations
From Aspen Public Radio:
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) has held meetings around the state on proposed updates to wolf hunting regulations in northwest Wyoming. These regulations are updated annually. Earlier this week, state wildlife officials presented the data and guidelines that inform their regulations aimed at keeping gray wolf populations healthy at Teton County Library in Jackson.
Scattered dot graphs and trend lines illustrated the various calculations WGFD uses to set mortality limits — the number of wolves that can be legally killed — in 14 different designated hunting boundaries in northwest Wyoming.
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Have Wolves Returned Yellowstone to its Natural State?
From Mountain Journal:
Fishing with wolves: New exhibit explores what the predators eat in summer
From MPR News:
A new exhibit at the International Wolf Center in Ely explores how wolves survive during the summer months, a tougher time to bring down their usual prey.
Titled “Starvation, Adaptation and Survival — Insights from the Voyageurs Wolf Project,” the exhibit showcases research from the University of Minnesota.
In summer, researchers say wolves must expend extra effort to feed themselves and their pups.
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Ranchers, ODFW gather in Wallowa County to talk wolves
From The Observer:
ENTERPRISE — A small gathering of ranchers, police and representatives of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife resulted in increased understanding of Northeast Oregon’s problem of wolf-livestock conflicts Tuesday, May 21.
About a half-dozen ranchers and the same number of ODFW officials, along with Wallowa County Sheriff Ryan Moody and Sheriff’s Sgt. Paul Pagano, gathered at the food booth of the Wallowa County Fairgrounds to learn more about what the state is doing to manage wolves particularly in Wallowa County, where the bulk of wolf attacks on livestock appear to occur.
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National wolf advocates are met with stock trailers and frustrated locals in Daniel
From Wyoming Public Media:
On Sunday morning the sleepy town of Daniel, Wyoming, population 108, was anything but. The single lane highway through town was lined bumper to bumper with trucks, livestock trailers, semis and hundreds of people.
This was the local response to a weeks-long publicized arrival of a motorcycle brigade of wolf advocates. ‘Hogs for Hope’, which originated in Texas, promised to raise money to bring change to Wyoming’s wolf laws, which they say are insufficient. That’s because earlier this year, Cody Roberts, of Daniel, captured and brought a live, muzzled and allegedly injured wolf into a local bar, later killing it. He was fined $250 by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department for possessing the live animal.
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CPW confirms wolf killed Jackson County calf; another killed by exhaustion
From Fox News 31:
DENVER (KDVR) — A calf was killed in Jackson County on May 25, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife, and a wolf is to blame.
Further details from CPW were not available on Monday, but Steamboat Radio reported that a rancher suspects a wolf got one of his calves. CPW is working to determine if the calf’s death was due to a reintroduced wolf, or a wolf that has migrated to the state naturally.
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Culling controversy as French wolf population falls in 2023
From Phys.org:
The estimated number of wolves in France last year was 1,003, down nine percent from the year before, environmental associations said Thursday, urging the French government to lower its quota for the number of the animals which can be killed each year.
The drop in the predator’s population is the first in almost ten years, according to loupfrance.fr, a site managed by France’s biodiversity authority.
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