Around this time last year, wolf advocates celebrated news that after traveling thousands of miles alone looking for love and a new home, Oregon’s famous lone wolf OR-7 had found a mate and welcomed a litter of pups into the world. Continue reading
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Editorial: Red wolf debacle shows US Fish and Wildlife Service missing spine
The meme spreading around social media this week of President Barack Obama defiantly standing on a doorstep while holding a bald eagle is pretty awesome, but for those of us in the wildlife conservation world, it is also rather ironic, given the way the Obama administration has been retreating from endangered species conservation in recent years. Continue reading
Hunter who killed wolf seen at Grand Canyon won’t be charged
SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah hunter who killed the first gray wolf seen near the Grand Canyon in seven decades won’t face criminal charges because he thought he was shooting a coyote, U.S. Fish and Wildlife announced Thursday. Continue reading
Young wolf killed on Grand Teton Park highway
JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) – A young male wolf has been hit and killed on the main highway running through Grand Teton National Park. Continue reading
Dozens of Conservation Groups Urge New Mexico Gov. Martinez to Restore Permit for Crucial Mexican Wolf-recovery Facility on Ted Turner’s Ranch
Nationwide Movement Deplores Politically Driven Halt to Turner’s Assistance Continue reading
Montana FWP plan to maintain current course on wolf hunts
Montana’s Fish, Wildlife and Parks will ask for no changes to their hunting and trapping season regulations, a move which indicates satisfaction with the drop in the state’s wolf population. Continue reading
Editorial: Game board unfairly takes aim at gray wolf protector
Playing tit for tat with an endangered species is not only unproductive; it’s petty. Yet that appears to be what the New Mexico Game Commission did last week when it declined to renew a permit that had been in place for 17 years allowing Ted Turner’s Ladder Ranch in the Gila mountains to assist the federal Mexican gray wolf recovery program. Continue reading
Wolves return to Washington Park Zoo
MICHIGAN CITY — Michigan City’s hometown mascot – the Wolves – are represented once again at Washington Park Zoo as three young timber wolves now call the zoo their home. Continue reading
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Still Failing to Recover Imperiled Mexican Wolves
Tucson, AZ – Today, WildEarth Guardians, the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance and Friends of Animals notified the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) of their intent to sue the Service for its failure to adequately protect imperiled Mexican wolves under the Endangered Species Act. In January, the Service finalized new rules governing the management of Mexican wolves, many aspects of which further undermine efforts to recover the most rare mammal in the American Southwest. Continue reading
Rocky Barker: Wolves found freedom 20 years ago today in Yellowstone
Wolves returned to the Yellowstone wild 20 years ago yesterday – March 24. Continue reading
Wenasaga Lodge wolf video goes viral
Wolves thriving in Washington, but only in the east
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) – Wolves are thriving in Washington, primarily on the eastern side of the Cascade Range. Continue reading
Let the experts make decisions regarding Wisconsin’s gray wolves
I borrowed the headline chosen by Reid Ribble for his editorial which appeared on the conservative-leaning Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinal. Continue reading
Wash. says wolf population grew 30% last year
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The state says Washington’s wolf population grew by more than 30 percent last year and formed four new packs. Continue reading
Classless comments from Alaska congressman
ep. Don Young (R-Alaska) suggested Thursday that the solution to homelessness is wolves. Continue reading
Search for lone wolf in Voyageurs National Park comes up empty
A lone wolf seen following snowmobiles in Voyageurs National Park may have left the area, park officials said Thursday. Continue reading
Fish & Game suspends Wolf People’s exhibition license
COCOLALLA — Wolf People’s alleged disregard for conditions of an Idaho Department of Fish & Game agreement is coming back to bite the wolf advocacy and education enterprise. Continue reading
Who should manage Michigan’s wolves?
Louise Knott Ahern — of Lansing State Journal — puts together a good synopsis of the events that led up to the federal judge’s decision to place Great Lake wolves back on the endangered species list. Continue reading
Mexican Wolf Numbers Increase for 5th Straight Year to 109 Wolves, 19 Packs
SILVER CITY, N.M.— For the fifth year in a row the number of endangered Mexican gray wolves has increased. There are now 109 individuals, including 53 in New Mexico and 56 in Arizona, compared to 83 a year ago, 80 in 2013, and 67 at the beginning of 2012. The number of breeding pairs also increased to 14, although only eight of these pairs met the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s definitional requirement of producing two pups that survive until the end of the year. Continue reading
And… We’re back
As some of you may have noticed, HOWLColorado has been very quiet for a few months.
