[large thumbnail url=”utah-senator-puts-name-to-wolf-delisting-bill” filename=”news” year=”2011″ month=”01″ day=”26″] [thumbnail icon url=”utah-senator-puts-name-to-wolf-delisting-bill” filename=”news” year=”2011″ month=”01″ day=”26″] Utah continues it’s stance as probably the most anti-wolf state in the US as congressman Jim Matheson, who represents that state, puts his support behind yet another wolf-delisting bill.

[large thumbnail url=”biologist-calls-montana-wolf-resolution-weak” filename=”news” year=”2011″ month=”01″ day=”26″] [thumbnail icon url=”biologist-calls-montana-wolf-resolution-weak” filename=”news” year=”2011″ month=”01″ day=”26″] The Montana House passed a resolution last week calling for the de-listing of gray wolves from the Endangered Species Act on a 99-1 vote. The lone dissenter was Democrat Mike Phillips of Bozeman. House District 3 Republican Jerry O’Neil supported the […]

[large thumbnail url=”maine-bill-proposes-new-requirements-for-wolf-hybrids” filename=”news” year=”2011″ month=”01″ day=”26″] [thumbnail icon url=”maine-bill-proposes-new-requirements-for-wolf-hybrids” filename=”news” year=”2011″ month=”01″ day=”26″] This article which appeared on the WLBZ-TV Web site outlines the new requirements around owning wolf-hybrids in Maine should a bill pass in to law.

[large thumbnail url=”officials-believe-northern-mich-wolf-was-illegally-killed” filename=”news” year=”2011″ month=”01″ day=”26″] [thumbnail icon url=”officials-believe-northern-mich-wolf-was-illegally-killed” filename=”news” year=”2011″ month=”01″ day=”26″] State wildlife biologists suspect one of two young wolves in northern Lower Michigan has been illegally killed.

[large thumbnail url=”idaho-wolf-project-gets-local-support” filename=”news” year=”2011″ month=”01″ day=”26″] [thumbnail icon url=”idaho-wolf-project-gets-local-support” filename=”news” year=”2011″ month=”01″ day=”26″] According to the Idaho Mountain Express, a wolf project which has all but eliminated depredation on sheep has local county support to continue for a fourth year.

[large thumbnail url=”wolves-blamed-for-killing-two-dogs-in-iron-county-michigan” filename=”news” year=”2011″ month=”01″ day=”19″] [thumbnail icon url=”wolves-blamed-for-killing-two-dogs-in-iron-county-michigan” filename=”news” year=”2011″ month=”01″ day=”19″] It is not unusual for wolves to kill “invading” dogs, and it’s a particularly well-known threat to dogs used for hunting, but Iron County, Michigan has now recorded their first such attack.

[large thumbnail url=”siberian-hunters-seek-to-destroy-400-strong-wolf-pack” filename=”news” year=”2011″ month=”01″ day=”19″] [thumbnail icon url=”siberian-hunters-seek-to-destroy-400-strong-wolf-pack” filename=”news” year=”2011″ month=”01″ day=”19″] Some are dubious about the numbers, but 24 hunting parties have been dispatched with snowmobiles, traps, and helicoptors to destroy a 400 wolf pack which has been blamed for killing 30 horses.

[large thumbnail url=”montana-woman-designs-license-plate-for-livestock-compensation-group” filename=”news” year=”2011″ month=”01″ day=”19″] [thumbnail icon url=”montana-woman-designs-license-plate-for-livestock-compensation-group” filename=”news” year=”2011″ month=”01″ day=”19″] A new logo featuring livestock and wolves, which already graces the letterhead of a state board, eventually will become a new specialty license plate.

[large thumbnail url=”swedish-government-under-fire-over-wolf-hunt” filename=”news” year=”2011″ month=”01″ day=”19″] [thumbnail icon url=”swedish-government-under-fire-over-wolf-hunt” filename=”news” year=”2011″ month=”01″ day=”19″] The European Commission plans to take legal action against Sweden over a wolf hunt that allegedly breaches EU law

[large thumbnail url=”banned-poison-claimed-life-of-wolf-341f-in-colorado” filename=”news” year=”2011″ month=”01″ day=”12″] [thumbnail icon url=”banned-poison-claimed-life-of-wolf-341f-in-colorado” filename=”news” year=”2011″ month=”01″ day=”12″] Collared Yellowstone wolf, 341F, travelled thousands of miles, finally reaching Colorado, only to be killed after ingesting something laced with the illegal poison Compound 1080.

[large thumbnail url=”watershed-year-expected-for-wolves” filename=”news” year=”2011″ month=”01″ day=”11″] [thumbnail icon url=”watershed-year-expected-for-wolves” filename=”news” year=”2011″ month=”01″ day=”11″] ALBUUQUERQUE (AP) – Another year has passed and the effort to return the endangered Mexican gray wolf to the Southwest is no closer to marking success than when federal wildlife officials first set out with their lofty goals decades ago.

The Arizona Game and Fish Department released their monthly endangered species report for December.

[large thumbnail url=”wolf-tracker-is-both-detective-and-data-cruncher” filename=”news” year=”2011″ month=”01″ day=”10″] [thumbnail icon url=”wolf-tracker-is-both-detective-and-data-cruncher” filename=”news” year=”2011″ month=”01″ day=”10″] Wanted: Social arbiter and diplomat in one of the most emotionally charged arenas of wildlife management. Must be a detective and data cruncher with an uncanny ability to trap live gray wolves.

[large thumbnail url=”sweden-mulls-tougher-laws-against-illegal-wolf-hunting” filename=”news” year=”2011″ month=”01″ day=”10″] [thumbnail icon url=”sweden-mulls-tougher-laws-against-illegal-wolf-hunting” filename=”news” year=”2011″ month=”01″ day=”10″]  Stockholm – The Swedish government wants ‘tougher’ legislation against illegal hunting of wolves, Environment Minsiter Andreas Carlgren said Monday, on the eve of this year’s licensed wolf hunt.