[large thumbnail url=”wolves-are-breeding-in-michigans-lower-peninsula” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”07″ day=”29″] [thumbnail icon url=”wolves-are-breeding-in-michigans-lower-peninsula” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”07″ day=”29″] A story which appeared on the Chicago Tribune site says that something long suspected has now been confirmed after a wolf pup has been spotted in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula.

[large thumbnail url=”alpha-female-from-lookout-pack-missing” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”07″ day=”29″] [thumbnail icon url=”alpha-female-from-lookout-pack-missing” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”07″ day=”29″] Wenatchee World is reporting that the alpha female of the pack which was the first to make it’s home in Washington state in 70 years has gone missing.

[large thumbnail url=”state-tracking-wolves-across-oregon” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”07″ day=”22″] [thumbnail icon url=”state-tracking-wolves-across-oregon” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”07″ day=”22″] Last February, scientists captured and examined a handful of Oregon’s newest wildlife residents called “Timber Wolves.”

[large thumbnail url=”doug-smith-nature-without-wolves-is-not-nature” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”07″ day=”22″] [thumbnail icon url=”doug-smith-nature-without-wolves-is-not-nature” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”07″ day=”22″] A great piece written by Corinne Garcia for the Christian Science Monitor gives an insight in to the world of Doug Smith, the Yellowstone Wolf Reintroduction Program project leader.

[large thumbnail url=”wolf-recovery-sought-across-country-west-coast-new-england-colorado-and-great-plains” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”07″ day=”20″] [thumbnail icon url=”wolf-recovery-sought-across-country-west-coast-new-england-colorado-and-great-plains” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”07″ day=”20″] Gray wolves should be reintroduced across the country in multiple, connected populations says the Center of Biological Diversity in a petition submitted to the Department of the Interior and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Joe Manganiello plays a werewolf on the show “True Blood” which plays on HBO.

[large thumbnail url=”third-mexican-gray-wolf-killed-by-poachers-in-as-many-weeks” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”07″ day=”19″] [thumbnail icon url=”third-mexican-gray-wolf-killed-by-poachers-in-as-many-weeks” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”07″ day=”19″] The critically endangered mexican gray wolves are facing a persistent and seemingly coordinated assault by poachers. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has confirmed that a third Mexican gray wolf has been killed.

[large thumbnail url=”idaho-shepherd-shoots-wolf” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”07″ day=”13″] [thumbnail icon url=”idaho-shepherd-shoots-wolf” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”07″ day=”13″] A sheepherder in Idaho shot a wolf which he says was responsible for an attack on a lamb in the Franklin Basin area.

[large thumbnail url=”rare-species-faces-growing-threat” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”07″ day=”13″] [thumbnail icon url=”rare-species-faces-growing-threat” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”07″ day=”13″] The Charlotte Observer published a well written article regarding the continued struggles of the extremely rare red wolf.

[large thumbnail url=”idaho-will-allow-trapping-and-electronic-calls-for-2010-wolf-hunt” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”07″ day=”13″] [thumbnail icon url=”idaho-will-allow-trapping-and-electronic-calls-for-2010-wolf-hunt” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”07″ day=”13″] In the name of fair “sport” Idaho will allow hunters to trap wolves and use electronic calls in order to try and guarantee hitting what was an aggressive quota which hunters failed to achieve in 2009.

[large thumbnail url=”mexican-wolf-reintroduction-project-news-june-2010″ filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”07″ day=”08″] [thumbnail icon url=”mexican-wolf-reintroduction-project-news-june-2010″ filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”07″ day=”08″] The Arizona Fish and Game Department has released its June 2010 Mexican Wolf report.

[large thumbnail url=”montana-doubles-wolf-hunting-quota” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”07″ day=”08″] [thumbnail icon url=”montana-doubles-wolf-hunting-quota” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”07″ day=”08″] The Montana FWP Commission has decided on a quota for the 2010 wolf hunt, and it more than doubles the 2009 quota.

The International Wolf Center has been educating the public about wolves for 25 years! Part of this education is the Ambassador wolf program, which has now been in place for 21 years. The International Wolf Center was founded in 1985, on the belief that coexistence with wolves is possible when people are presented with the facts […]

[large thumbnail url=”montana-fwp-commission-meeting-wolf-quota-decision-expected” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”07″ day=”08″] [thumbnail icon url=”montana-fwp-commission-meeting-wolf-quota-decision-expected” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”07″ day=”08″] May 2010 saw the Montana FWP Commission narrow down and approve three different quotas for the 2010 wolf hunt – July 8, 2010 sees a meeting where the Commission is expected to announce which quota they plan to use.

[large thumbnail url=”disturbing-trend-sees-mexican-gray-alpha-wolves-being-picked-off” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”07″ day=”07″] [thumbnail icon url=”disturbing-trend-sees-mexican-gray-alpha-wolves-being-picked-off” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”07″ day=”07″] Two alpha males have been found dead, one in Arizona the other in New Mexico, and Federal officials are investigating the deaths as suspicious.

[large thumbnail url=”idaho-hunt-claims-four-more-wolves-in-lolo-zone” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”07″ day=”06″] [thumbnail icon url=”idaho-hunt-claims-four-more-wolves-in-lolo-zone” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”07″ day=”06″] Idaho Fish and Game authorized and organized a hunt in the Lolo Wildlife Management Zone which has claimed the lives of four wolves.

[large thumbnail url=”watermelons-for-wolves” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”07″ day=”06″] [thumbnail icon url=”watermelons-for-wolves” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”07″ day=”06″] Battleground, Indiana was home to a unique 4th of July celebration… and it involves wolves and oddly, watermelons.

[large thumbnail url=”lawsuit-filed-to-stop-federal-state-sanctioned-killing-of-endangered-wolves” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”07″ day=”02″] [thumbnail icon url=”lawsuit-filed-to-stop-federal-state-sanctioned-killing-of-endangered-wolves” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”07″ day=”02″] Four conservation groups sue the U.S. Department of Agriculture for recklessly and without sufficiently evaluating  the impact of selecting lethal response on Oregon’s small wolf population.

[large thumbnail url=”mexican-gray-wolf-one-step-closer-to-separate-protection-under-endangered-species-act” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”07″ day=”01″] [thumbnail icon url=”mexican-gray-wolf-one-step-closer-to-separate-protection-under-endangered-species-act” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”07″ day=”01″] A news release from Michael Robinson and the Center for Biological Diversity outlines a settlement filed with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service seeking recognition of the Mexican Gray wolf as an endangered species distinct from gray wolves, meaning increased protection […]

Kristen Stewart, star of the “Twilight” movie series, appeared on David Letterman’s show where he confronted her about the fact her family owns wolf-hybrids.   David Letterman seemed determined to paint Stewart’s wolf hybrids as dangerous animals. Partially to get laughs, but there was a definite slant to the interview. Stewart did try to point out […]