From Belga News Agency:
From Brussels to the forests of Belgium, Sweden, Italy and Poland, the wolf has been transformed from a conservation icon into a lightning rod in Europe’s culture wars, pitting city dwellers against rural communities, farmers against environmentalists, and fact against fear.
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Wolves in Europe: From conservation icon to political flashpoint
From Belga News Agency:
From Brussels to the forests of Belgium, Sweden, Italy and Poland, the wolf has been transformed from a conservation icon into a lightning rod in Europe’s culture wars, pitting city dwellers against rural communities, farmers against environmentalists, and fact against fear.
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Isle Royale National Park staff kill wolf that became accustomed to human food, posing safety risk
From CBS News:
Isle Royale National Park officials said they have killed a wolf on the island after it became “food-conditioned” and had several concerning interactions with park visitors.
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Federal judge: Fish and Wildlife Service broke law in wolf petition denial
From Laramie Boomerang:
POWELL — Montana District federal Judge Donald Molloy has ruled the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service broke the law last year when it denied a petition to protect gray wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains under the Endangered Species Act and to take another look at whether Montana and Idaho can be trusted to manage wolves within their states’ borders.
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Colorado’s top wildlife official opens up about wolves, conservation and why elks need pollinators
From the Colorado Sun:
From his helm atop Colorado Parks and Wildlife, director Jeff Davis sees a future where hunting equals recreation equals wolves restored to the landscape
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Boebert’s bill to delist gray wolves not surprising given her ‘little hats’ comment
From Durango Herald:
Recent media coverage of U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s bill calling to delist the gray wolf from federal protection misses the most salient point: Boebert loathes wolves.
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While state continues to hunt pack member, wolves kill two more cattle in Pitkin County [Colorado]
From Yahoo.com:
A second livestock depredation by the Copper Creek pack since wildlife officials began efforts nearly a month ago to lethally remove a pack member has heightened tension between ranchers and Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
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New Mexico Gov. removes game commissioner over undisclosed conflict of interest tied to Mexican gray wolf campaign
From ABQJournal.com:
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham fired a game commissioner on Wednesday for failing to disclose that she’d worked on an outside persuasion campaign on the Mexican gray wolf.
Lujan Grisham removed Sabrina Pack from her seat representing District 2, after the governor learned of Pack’s “failure to disclose her conflict of interest as well as her failure to recuse herself from pertinent votes,” according to the governor’s spokeswoman Jodi McGinnis Porter.
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Center for Biological Diversity sues feds over red wolf listing
From The CoastlandTimes.com:
RALEIGH – Nearly 40 years after the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service launched an innovative program to save the eastern red wolf from extinction, a nonprofit conservation group is challenging the agency’s prior decision to not upgrade to a more protective management designation, despite its outsized importance to the species’ survival.
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Red wolf population expands with new litters born on NC’s Albemarle Peninsula
From WRAL.com:
The Red Wolf Recovery Program on the North Carolina coast has confirmed the birth of four wild litters of red wolf pups on the Albemarle Peninsula.
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What went wrong with the Copper Creek wolf pack? Colorado’s top wildlife official addresses current challenges
From KUNC.org:
While Colorado’s wolf restoration has now seen 25 wolves released and four packs formed, one group in particular has dominated the discourse: the Copper Creek pack. The Vail Daily recently sat down with Jeff Davis, the director of Colorado Parks and Wildlife, to discuss all things wolves, including what’s been going on with the Copper Creek wolf pack.
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