[large thumbnail url=”defenders-stops-paying-reimbursement-focuses-on-working-with-ranchers” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”08″ day=”27″] [thumbnail icon url=”defenders-stops-paying-reimbursement-focuses-on-working-with-ranchers” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”08″ day=”27″] Defenders of Wildlife is stopping its Wolf Compensation fund in September and has plans to instead focus on working with ranchers to improve chances for co-existance with wolves.

[large thumbnail url=”more-details-about-usda-wildlife-services-wolf-killing-plans” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”08″ day=”27″] [thumbnail icon url=”more-details-about-usda-wildlife-services-wolf-killing-plans” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”08″ day=”27″] In a document published on the USDA Web site, Wildlife Services outlines many alternatives regarding the management of wolves in Idaho.

[large thumbnail url=”defenders-brutal-plan-for-northern-rockies-wolves” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”08″ day=”25″] [thumbnail icon url=”defenders-brutal-plan-for-northern-rockies-wolves” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”08″ day=”25″] The Defenders of Wildlife is highlighting the USDA’s Wildlife Services’ plans to wipe out hundreds of wolves in the upper Rocky Mountains. The Endangered Species Act ruling doesn’t protect wolves from the organization originally responsible for exterminating all the wolves in […]

Restoration of federal protection for wolves in Idaho and Montana once again has put the spotlight on Wyoming. Unfortunately, our state’s leaders aren’t willing to take advantage of the best opportunity to bring conclusion to the controversy over wolves in the northern Rockies.

TUCSON, Ariz. – The Mexican gray wolf reintroduction program along the Arizona-New Mexico border is moving into a new phase, with a program compensating ranchers for wolf-caused livestock losses being taken over by the federal government.

[large thumbnail url=”straw-poll-in-montana-shows-a-majority-voted-no-to-hunting” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”08″ day=”17″] [thumbnail icon url=”straw-poll-in-montana-shows-a-majority-voted-no-to-hunting” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”08″ day=”17″] A Montana TV station – KBZK – conducted a poll of it’s online readers and asked the question: should wolf hunting be restored?

[large thumbnail url=”mexican-wolf-reintroduction-project-news-–-july-2010″ filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”08″ day=”16″] [thumbnail icon url=”mexican-wolf-reintroduction-project-news-–-july-2010″ filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”08″ day=”16″] The Arizona Fish and Game Departmant has released its July 2010 Mexican Wolf report.

[large thumbnail url=”idaho-looking-for-ways-to-kill-hundreds-of-wolves” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”08″ day=”12″] [thumbnail icon url=”idaho-looking-for-ways-to-kill-hundreds-of-wolves” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”08″ day=”12″] Despite the decision to return the Endangered Species Act protections to gray wolves, Idaho is still seeking ways to kill more than 300 of their wolves. A plan powered by politics, not science.

[large thumbnail url=”biologists-collar-wolf-from-oregons-wehana-pack” filename=”science” year=”2010″ month=”08″ day=”10″] [thumbnail icon url=”biologists-collar-wolf-from-oregons-wehana-pack” filename=”science” year=”2010″ month=”08″ day=”10″] For the first time, biologists were able to capture a member of Oregon’s Wehana pack. They caught a young male wolf from the pack and fitted him with a radio tracking collar before releasing him.

[large thumbnail url=”montana-idaho-scrambling-in-response-to-wolf-relisting-decision” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”08″ day=”10″] [thumbnail icon url=”montana-idaho-scrambling-in-response-to-wolf-relisting-decision” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”08″ day=”10″] With Wyoming’s unreasonable wolf management plan now putting a halt to Montana and Idaho’s strategies, both states are now scrambling to find ways around the restrictions the ruling now puts on them.

[large thumbnail url=”alaska-supreme-court-upholds-states-predator-program” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”08″ day=”10″] [thumbnail icon url=”alaska-supreme-court-upholds-states-predator-program” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”08″ day=”10″] The Alaska Supreme Court has upheld the state’s predator control programs, ruling they mesh with the state constitution’s mandate to manage wildlife for sustained yield.

[large thumbnail url=”north-carolina-county-bans-wolf-hybrids” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”08″ day=”10″] [thumbnail icon url=”north-carolina-county-bans-wolf-hybrids” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”08″ day=”10″] A story which appeared on the Asheville Citizen-Times Web site outlines how a ban in Henderson County is impacting local shelters.

[large thumbnail url=”federal-judge-returns-esa-protections-to-montana-and-idaho-wolves” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”08″ day=”05″] [thumbnail icon url=”federal-judge-returns-esa-protections-to-montana-and-idaho-wolves” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”08″ day=”05″] The decision determined that it is contrary to the rules of the Endangered Species Act to give the wolves in Montana and Idaho different protections that those wolves that make their home in Wyoming, a state which is refusing to put together […]

[large thumbnail url=”mexican-gray-wolf-may-qualify-for-endangered-species-protection-separate-from-other-gray-wolves” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”08″ day=”05″] [thumbnail icon url=”mexican-gray-wolf-may-qualify-for-endangered-species-protection-separate-from-other-gray-wolves” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”08″ day=”05″] SILVER CITY, N.M.— In response to a petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today determined that the Mexican gray wolf may qualify for listing as an endangered species separate from other wolves. A separate […]