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Kevin Richert, writing on the IdahoStatesmen.com Web site, is not pro-wolf. It’s not really anti-wolf either, but its certainly interesting and it carefully, and with little deviation, targets Otter for his cynical strategy and Wyoming for being the root cause of all the problems.

The Utah Wildlife Board has taken a stand supporting federal legislation that would take the gray wolf population off the endangered species list, a move that angers some wildlife advocates.

Governor “Butch” Otter announced that Idaho would no longer handle wolf management, and then told the Associated Press that federal law allows hunters to shoot wolves they see pursuing elk or moose – which is not true.

Almost two weeks after the deadline that Gov. Butch Otter set for a wolf management agreement, the governor is making good on his threat to withdraw state support for federal management efforts.

For the second time in six months, federal authorities are investigating the suspected shooting death of a red wolf, a species that once teetered on the brink of extinction and now wages its fight for survival exclusively in eastern North Carolina’s wilderness.

Wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains are genetically healthy and have migrated and bred successfully among subpopulations in central Idaho, greater Yellowstone and northern Montana, according to a new study.

To celebrate the start of National Wolf Awareness Week, the zoo is inviting visitors to a keeper talk and wolf enrichment session Sunday, Oct. 17, at 11:30 a.m. The event is not for the faint of heart, however — the wolves’ enrichment item will be a carcass, a special treat for the predatory pack animals.

Federal officials on Thursday denied Montana’s request to hunt gray wolves in response to increasing attacks on livestock and elk, leaving a settlement with environmentalists as the most immediate hope for the state to regain control over the endangered predators.