According to a story which appeared in the Detroit Free Press, wolf complaints from the western Upper Peninsula are down from 2009 – which could mean that deer numbers are up.

Recalling a fascinating wolf story from 2007: Brooks River Falls in Katmai National Park & Preserve – An amateur wildlife photographer captures stunning shots of a wolf using bear fishing techniques to efficiently snag herself more than a dozen salmon from an Alaskan river. When a lone, female wolf appeared at the Brooks River Falls in Katmai […]

[large thumbnail url=”nm-resident-protests-school-sponsored-coyote-hunt” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”11″ day=”23″] [thumbnail icon url=”nm-resident-protests-school-sponsored-coyote-hunt” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”11″ day=”23″] In a story which appeared on a community news website for Curry County published a story in which a man, recently moved from Iowa (which they are sure to point out), takes issue with a local school using a coyote hunt […]

[large thumbnail url=”wolf-bills-unlikely-to-advance-this-congress” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”11″ day=”23″] [thumbnail icon url=”wolf-bills-unlikely-to-advance-this-congress” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”11″ day=”23″] According to an Associated Press article by Matthew Brown, it’s unlikely that the bills which plan to remove ESA protections from wolves will advance during the 111th Congress.

[large thumbnail url=”gray-wolf-trapped-outside-rochester-minn-released” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”11″ day=”18″] [thumbnail icon url=”gray-wolf-trapped-outside-rochester-minn-released” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”11″ day=”18″] A gray wolf, in Southeastern Minnesota, was caught in a trap intended for coyote. An article which marginalized the potential injuries traps can cause says that the wolf has been released back in to the wild with “a sore paw.”

[large thumbnail url=”conservationists-intervene-in-frivolous-anti-mexican-gray-wolf-lawsuit” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”11″ day=”18″] [thumbnail icon url=”conservationists-intervene-in-frivolous-anti-mexican-gray-wolf-lawsuit” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”11″ day=”18″] JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – Members of the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Wildlife Conservation team are asking base residents to increase their personal safety measures and responsibilities regarding safety from wolf.

[large thumbnail url=”reward-offered-as-authorities-investigate-wolf-kills-in-montana” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”11″ day=”18″] [thumbnail icon url=”reward-offered-as-authorities-investigate-wolf-kills-in-montana” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”11″ day=”18″] Federal authorities are offering a $2,500 reward for information leading to the identification and prosecution of the person or people responsible for killing two gray wolves in the Flathead National Forest.

[large thumbnail url=”montana-asks-feds-for-limited-wolf-hunt” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”11″ day=”18″] [thumbnail icon url=”montana-asks-feds-for-limited-wolf-hunt” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”11″ day=”18″]The state Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission will ask the federal government for a permit that would allow a limited wolf hunt in southwestern Montana because of the threat to the elk population there.

[large thumbnail url=”federal-judge-rules-for-wyoming-in-wolf-lawsuit” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”11″ day=”18″] [thumbnail icon url=”federal-judge-rules-for-wyoming-in-wolf-lawsuit” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”11″ day=”18″] A federal judge on Thursday ordered the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to reconsider whether Wyoming’s wolf management plan is adequate to meet recovery goals for the species.

[large thumbnail url=”conservation-groups-du-law-clinic-rally-for-wolves-in-colorado” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”11″ day=”15″] [thumbnail icon url=”conservation-groups-du-law-clinic-rally-for-wolves-in-colorado” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”11″ day=”15″] Denver— Giving the public only 12 hours notice, Rocky Mountain National Park will again host sharpshooters to cull the Park’s burgeoning elk population this winter rather than reintroducing wolves, which would permanently resolve the Park’s elk problems. Over the summer, Park […]

[large thumbnail url=”conservationists-intervene-in-frivolous-anti-mexican-gray-wolf-lawsuit” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”11″ day=”15″] [thumbnail icon url=”conservationists-intervene-in-frivolous-anti-mexican-gray-wolf-lawsuit” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”11″ day=”15″] Wolves will be at risk from leghold and body-crushing traps in New Mexico despite an executive order which prohibits the use of traps in Mexican Gray wolf recovery areas.

[large thumbnail url=”conservationists-intervene-in-frivolous-anti-mexican-gray-wolf-lawsuit” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”11″ day=”15″] [thumbnail icon url=”conservationists-intervene-in-frivolous-anti-mexican-gray-wolf-lawsuit” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”11″ day=”15″] According to the Anchorage Daily News the NTSB has released their report regarding the plane crash which killed well-known wolf advocate, Gordon Haber. 

[large thumbnail url=”conservationists-intervene-in-frivolous-anti-mexican-gray-wolf-lawsuit” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”11″ day=”15″] [thumbnail icon url=”conservationists-intervene-in-frivolous-anti-mexican-gray-wolf-lawsuit” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”11″ day=”15″] The Center for Biological Diversity and Defenders of Wildlife — represented by the Western Environmental Law Center — today intervened in a lawsuit that seeks the trapping and shooting of endangered Mexican gray wolves, the third since reintroduction began in 1998.

[large thumbnail url=”hunters-shoot-wolf-citing-fear-for-their-lives” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”11″ day=”10″] [thumbnail icon url=”hunters-shoot-wolf-citing-fear-for-their-lives” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”11″ day=”10″] A tall story of terror and elk-stealing has been spun around a situation which led to a wolf being shot by a pair of Montana hunters.

[large thumbnail url=”an-endangered-mexican-wolves-be-conditioned-to-dislike-the-taste-of-sheep” filename=”science” year=”2010″ month=”11″ day=”10″] [thumbnail icon url=”an-endangered-mexican-wolves-be-conditioned-to-dislike-the-taste-of-sheep” filename=”science” year=”2010″ month=”11″ day=”10″] A new article which appeared on Scientific American’s web site explores techniques which would make livestock far less appealing to Mexican gray wolves.

[large thumbnail url=”game-agency-defies-governor-game-commission” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”11″ day=”08″] [thumbnail icon url=”game-agency-defies-governor-game-commission” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”11″ day=”08″] WildEarth Guardians released the following press release regarding the continued coyote trapping in lobo areas.

[large thumbnail url=”mexican-wolf-reintroduction-project-news-october-2010″ filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”11″ day=”10″] [thumbnail icon url=”mexican-wolf-reintroduction-project-news-october-2010″ filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”11″ day=”10″] The Arizona Fish and Game Departmant has released its October 2010 Mexican Wolf report.

[large thumbnail url=”binghamton-university-welcomes-a-wolf” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”11″ day=”08″] [thumbnail icon url=”binghamton-university-welcomes-a-wolf” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”11″ day=”08″] Binghamton University, in New York state, welcomed a wolf from the Wolf Conservation Center, as part of an outreach initiative to safeguard the future of wolves.

[large thumbnail url=”idahos-lolo-wolf-plan-put-on-hold” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”11″ day=”08″] [thumbnail icon url=”idahos-lolo-wolf-plan-put-on-hold” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”11″ day=”08″] The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have suspended the progress of the Idaho petition to kill more than 40 wolves in the Lolo zone has to undergo a review before any decision will be made.

[large thumbnail url=”finlands-wolf-population-shrinks-hunting-season-begins-monday” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”11″ day=”03″] [thumbnail icon url=”finlands-wolf-population-shrinks-hunting-season-begins-monday” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”11″ day=”03″] Finland’s wolf population has dropped more than a third in the last four years, with researchers say high mortality rates and poaching have contributed to the decline.