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Wolf News - December 2020
IDAHOAN’S VIRAL VIDEO SHOWS PACK OF WOLVES ON SNOWY HIGHWAY. ‘ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME MOMENT’
December 28th: A Stanley woman’s encounter with Idaho wildlife has gone viral after she shared the video — a rare glimpse of a pack of wolves on an open road in daylight — on Facebook.
INJURED WOLF PUP KEEPING UP WITH BOW VALLEY PACK
December 25th: “In terms of a full recovery, it’s unlikely, but the pack is looking after this wolf and as long as that continues to happen, this wolf will probably likely continue to live and exist.”
GARFIELD COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WORRIED ABOUT WOLF REINTRODUCTION TIMELINE
December 24th:Garfield County Commissioners voiced concern Monday over the potential to speed up wolf reintroduction in the state, but Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials say they have not yet proposed a timeline.
STUDY: DEPLETED WOLF PACKS UNLIKELY TO WELCOME IMMIGRANTS
December 23rd: Footloose and unaffiliated wolves don’t often integrate with established packs, even when there is room for them to do so.
WITH WOLVES IN MURDERERS CREEK, ODFW BELIEVES EIGHT ARE AROUND GRANT COUNTY
December 22nd: The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife identified a new area of known wolf activity in the Murderers Creek Wildlife Unit.
VIRGINIA LIVING MUSEUM WELCOMES NEW FEMALE AMERICAN RED WOLF ‘KATNISS’
December 21st: The Virginia Living Museum welcomed an endangered 9-year-old female American Red Wolf named Katniss to their outdoor boardwalk trail.
'KIND OF INCREDIBLE': RESEARCHERS REVEAL DETAILS OF MUMMIFIED ICE AGE WOLF PUP FOUND IN YUKON
December 21st: 57,000-year-old remains dug out of thawing permafrost by a miner in 2016
AS SMALLER WOLVES DIE, HUGE WOLVES FROM ONTARIO ESTABLISH PACKS ON ISLE ROYALE
December 19th: Group that's now thriving was once weak, starving.
ANIMAL ADVOCATES CALL FOR A BAN ON POISON TO KILL WOLVES, OTHER ANIMALS
December 18th: Two groups have asked the federal government to review the use of strychnine and other poisons to control wolves, coyotes, skunks and black bears.
December 18th: New documents obtained by the Center for Biological Diversity show that a New Mexico rancher confessed to trapping and beating at least one other endangered Mexican gray wolf in 2015.
GRAY WOLVES TO RETURN TO THE ROCKIES
December 18th: Gray wolves are often regarded as a popular predator in Colorado but have since become endangered.
ARIZONA GAME & FISH: 20 MEXICAN WOLF PUPS "FOSTERED" INTO WILD PACKS THIS YEAR
December 17th: The Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD) is reporting great results with its Mexican wolf pup foster program. This year, 20 pups born into captivity have been "adopted," or taken in, by "foster" packs in the wild.
MISSISSIPPI VALLERY CONSERVANCY TO HOST ONLINE PRESENTATION ON WOLVES
December 15th: The Mississippi Valley Conservancy will host wolf biologist Dick Thiel for a free online presentation about wolves of Wisconsin’s Central Forest Region — focusing particularly on the gray wolf.
WANT TO GROW FORESTS/PROTECT WOLVES
DECEMBER 15TH: With the upcoming inauguration of President Biden and Vice President Harris, it’s possible now to imagine meaningful action on climate change, which in yet another unusually hot year, cannot come soon enough.
FIELD NOTES: MEXICAN GRAY WOLF RECOVER PROGRAM SUMMER-FALL 2020
December 15th: The wild Mexican wolf population grew by 24% last year to a total of 163 wolves - higher than it’s been since reintroduction.
WATCH THE BOOK TRAILER FOR “YELLOWSTONE WOLVES”
December 15th: Publishing December 15, Yellowstone Wolves: Science and Discovery in the World’s First National Park is a testament to all we have learned from the wolves of Yellowstone since 1995—and to what we will lose if these ecologically vital predators were to disappear.
GRAY WOLF RECOVERY AND SURVIVAL REQUIRE IMMEDIATE ACTION BY THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION
December 12th: President-elect Joe Biden will soon step into a tangled web of critical foreign and domestic issues affecting Americans. As his administration begins work to address these complex challenges, issues that affect other species on Earth must not be lost in the shuffle.
THESE NON-LETHAL METHODS ENCOURAGED BY SCIENCE CAN KEEP WOLVES FROM KILLING LIVESTOCK
December 11th: Experts say old, repurposed techniques and new technologies may be better than bullets at curbing attacks by the predators
HOW THE ISLE ROYALE WOLF-MOOSE STUDY BEGAN
December 11th: "Wolf Island," a new book by renowned wolf researcher L. David Mech, highlights the start of the now famous Isle Royale predator/prey study back in 1958.
December 9th: Wolves are vital components of healthy ecosystems. Unlike human hunters, wolves tend to cull the weaker members of their prey species, thus maintaining the long-term genetic health of those animals.
PROTECTION FOR WOLVES STILL STIRS CONTROVERSY
December 7th: Superintendent Denice Swanke of Isle Royale National Park said removing gray wolves from the endangered species list may make it harder for the population to grow on the island.
THE WISCONSIN DNR HAS SET A DATE FOR THE RETURN OF WOLF HUNTING SEASON IN FALL 2021
December 4th: The next Wisconsin wolf hunting and trapping season will begin Nov. 6, the Department of Natural Resources announced Friday.
LAKE COUNTY WOLF MANAGEMENT NOT EXPECTED TO CHANGE SOON
December 2nd: Oregon Dept. of Fish and Wildlife District Biologist Jon Muir said even with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s recent decision to delist the gray wolf from the Endangered Species Act in the lower 48 states, he doesn’t expect authority to manage the species will be passed to the State of Oregon for some time due to anticipated litigation from various groups.
UNPRECEDENTED SIGHTINGS OF MANED WOLVES IN AMAZON HERALD A CHANGING LANDSCAPE
December 2nd: A mammal native to South America’s savannas, the maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus) now lives in the Amazon Rainforest.
COMPLAINT: FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE ILLEGALLY ALLOWING RED WOLVES TO GO EXTINCT — AGAIN
December 1st: Just seven wild red wolves are still alive in the world, all of them in eastern North Carolina, the result of federal wildlife officials’ flouting a court order, according to a legal complaint filed Monday by the Southern Environmental Law Center.
THIS NEW BEER IS ALL ABOUT PRESERVING AMERICAN RED WOLVES!
December 1st: The American red wolf conservation is dedicated to preserving the red wolf species, which faces extinction.
RED WOLVES HAVE BEEN BUSY GROWING UP AT DAN NICHOLAS PARK
December 1st: The red wolf is one of the most critically endangered species in the United States, with only about 20 individuals left in the wild. All of them live in North Carolina, and several have been busy growing up at Dan Nicholas Park.