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Wolf News - May 2021
8 RED WOLVES RELEASED INTO WILD PROVIDE HOPE FOR CRITICALLY ENDANGERED SPECIES
May 28th: A look at America’s most endangered wolf, and how this news is "a step in the right direction" for the species.
GRIMES COUNTY WOLF-DOG SANCTUARY TO ADD NEW PROGRAM TO HELP VETERANS
May 28th, Texas: The program provides housing for the veterans donating their time caring for the wolf-dogs.
May 28th, Colorado: A pair of Colorado wolves may not be a set of bachelors after all.
DNR BOARD STARTS WOLF HUNT REVISION PROCESS
May 26th, Wisconsin: The Department of Natural Resources board has started the process of revising Wisconsin’s wolf hunt rules to potentially prohibit night hunting and shorten the window for registering kills after hunters blew past their quota in February.
NEW WOLF KILLING LAWS TRIGGER PUSH TO REVIVE US PROTECTIONS
May 26th: Wildlife advocates pressed the Biden administration on Wednesday to revive federal protections for gray wolves across the Northern Rockies after Republican lawmakers in Idaho and Montana made it much easier to kill the predators.
WILDLIFE ADVOCATES PETITION TO RESTORE FEDERAL ENDANGERED SPECIES PROTECTIONS FOR GRAY WOLVES
May 26th: Multiple wildlife advocacy groups Wednesday officially petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to resume endangered species protection for gray wolves in the northern Rockies.
BIDEN SAYS ‘I’M IN!’ FOR PROTECTING WOLVES
May 25th: He’s looking for guidance on how to do it. We have some ideas
SPAIN BANS HUNTING OF WOLVES BUT DIVISION PERSISTS OVER PREDATOR
May 25th, Spain: With environmentalists across Europe increasingly championing the cause of canis lupus, Spain’s leftist government put an end to decades of hunting which saw the wolf almost driven to extinction.
CAMERA CAPTURES WILD WOLF PUP’S FIRST HOWL
May 25th, Minnesota: On Wednesday, the Voyageurs Wolf Project released a video of what they say is a 4-week-old pup testing its pipes for the first time, howling back to other wolves in the woods.
HOW TO KEEP WOLVES OUT AND BRIDGE A CULTURAL GAP - A SWISS PROJECT
May 25th, Switzerland: City dwellers are learning how to keep wolves at bay in the mountains of eastern Switzerland, helping sheep and goat farmers to protect their flocks whilst also bridging an urban-rural cultural divide over how to deal with the predators.
WOLVES SCARE DEER AND REDUCE AUTO COLLISIONS 24%, STUDY SAYS
May 24th, Michigan: Ecologist Rolf Peterson remembers driving remote stretches of road in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and seeing areas strewn with deer carcasses. But that changed after gray wolves arrived in the region from Canada and Minnesota.
AFTER BEING DRIVEN TO NEAR EXTINCTION, WOLVES ARE BACK IN WASHINGTON. CAN WE COEXIST WITH THEM?
May 23rd,Washington: THEY WALKED IN on their own: the first wolves in more than 100 years known to call Washington state home, after this native species was nearly wiped out by hunting, trapping and government extermination campaigns.
ALL ABOUT WOLVES: WHERE THEY COME FROM, HOW LONG THEY LIVE AND MORE
May 23rd, Wolves are the most widely distributed of all land mammals and one of the most adaptable.
RUMORS HAVE BEEN FLYING SINCE AN ADVENTUROUS WOLF WENT MISSING IN CALIFORNIA
May 22nd, California: California’s most adventurous wolf has not been heard from since biologists lost track of the “pings” emitted by OR-93’s radio collar on April 5 in San Luis Obispo County, about three hours’ drive north of Los Angeles.
NEW WOLF LAW MIGHT COME BACK TO BITE IDAHO
May 21st, Idaho: The new law jeopardizes this authority, and threatens the recovery of wolves.
HOW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS ARE DESTROYING THE GRAY WOLF
May 21st: Gray wolves used to thrive in most states in the U.S. and across Europe. Because of trophy hunting and habitat loss, wolves were extirpated from most states in the U.S. until the 1970s, when gray wolves were listed as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act, giving them federal protections against being hunted.
REMEMBERING WHEN BUFFALO WOLVES ROAMED NORTH DAKOTA
May 21st, North Dakota: By 1926, buffalo wolves were extinct, as were all wolf species within the state. Recent studies, however, indicate there may still be buffalo wolves in northern Minnesota, Wisconsin and Upper Michigan.
HOW WOLVES AND OTHER WILDLIFE HELP US FIGHT FOR THE CLIMATE
May 21st, Canada: With what we’re learning about the way wildlife influences ecosystems and the carbon cycle, it’s all the more important to protect biodiversity and keep our planet livable for all.
AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY COALITION MOVES TO DEFEND GRAY WOLF DELISTING
May 21st, California: This week, a coalition of agriculture and forestry groups — including the American Farm Bureau Federation, the American Forest Resources Council, the American Sheep Industry Association, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, and the Public Lands Council — filed motions in court in defense of delisting the gray wolf under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
ENDANGERED WOLVES DOING WELL AT NORTH CAROLINA ZOO
May 20th, North Carolina: Three litters of American red wolves, which are critically endangered and number less than two dozen in the wild, have been born at the North Carolina Zoo, officials announced Monday.
SEDONA PILOT FLIES MEXICAN WOLVES AGAIN
May 18th, Arizona: For the second consecutive year, Schroeder contributed his plane and flight skills to the multi-agency effort to place captive-bred Mexican wolves into wild dens in Arizona and New Mexico.
WHAT DOES SB 1211 MEAN FOR IDAHO'S GREY WOLF POPULATION?
May 17th, Idaho: Residents in Central Idaho are shocked after the passing of Senate Bill 1211, a bill that will allow up to 90% of Idaho's grey wolf population to be killed.
SIX OF THE WORST STATES TO BE A WOLF
May 17th, Gray wolves once roamed widely across the United States, but a centuries-long extermination campaign pushed them to near extinction in the lower 48 states.
WI HUNTERS TURN TO HIGHWAY SIGNS IN EFFORT TO PROTECT WOLVES
May 17th, Wisconsin: Opposition to wolf hunts in Wisconsin is becoming more visible, and not only in public hearings or on social media. Drivers might soon notice how some hunters feel about wolves.
WASHINGTON’S WOLF POPULATION GREW AT LEAST 24% IN 2020
May 16th, Washington: There are a minimum of 178 wolves in Washington, according to new information from state and tribal biologists published in late April.
WOLF PUPS ADDED TO MCCLEERY WOLF SCULPTURE
May 14th, Pennsylvania: The McCleery Wolf Center announced that the McCleery Wolf sculpture outside the Kane Depot in uptown Kane now consists of an adult wolf and four pups.
DNR CONSIDERS ENDING NIGHT WOLF HUNT, SHORTER REGISTRATIONS
May 14th, Wisconsin: Wisconsin wildlife officials are considering revising wolf regulations to prohibit night hunting and shorten the window for registering kills after hunters blew past their quota in February.
SCIENTISTS URGE RESTORATION OF FEDERAL GRAY WOLF PROTECTIONS
May 14th, D.C.: A group of scientists urged the Biden administration Thursday to restore legal protections for gray wolves, saying their removal earlier this year was premature and that states are allowing too many of the animals to be killed.
MEETING IN CODY TO DISCUSS HUNTING AND TRAPPING SEASONS FOR WOLVES, FURBEARERS
May 13th, Wyoming: The Cody Region of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department is hosting a public meeting next week to discuss proposed changes to hunting seasons for gray wolves and hunting and trapping seasons for furbearing animals.
May 12th, The wolf is set to become a fully protected species in Slovakia after the country implemented a total ban on
hunting.
GOV. LITTLE SIGNS EXTENSIVE WOLF-KILL BILL
May 12th, Idaho: Legislation will allow hunters, private contractors to kill up to 90% of Idaho’s wolf population
RED WOLVES RELEASED IN EASTERN N.C.
May 12th, North Carolina: As few as seven red wolves remained in the wild following the agency’s refusal to release any captive wolves for the past six years.
WOLF NUMBERS ABOUT FLAT IN WYOMING RANGE
May 12th, Wyoming: In Wyoming, aggressive mandates to kill off big numbers of the large native canines would quickly jeopardize the state’s ability to manage the species.
ON THE HEELS OF ONE RARE GRAY WOLF’S EPIC JOURNEY INTO CALIFORNIA, ANOTHER ARRIVES
May 11th, California: A young male gray wolf crossed into far Northern California early this month — joining another wolf that trekked into the state in late January and made an epic journey south.
THE IDEA OF “ALPHAS” IN WOLF PACKS IS MISGUIDED, ACCORDING TO STUDIES
May 10th, Norway: Wild wolf packs often consist of a nuclear family structure and no more, she says in a new ScienceNorway article: “The adults are simply in charge because they are the parents of the rest of the pack members. We don’t talk about the alpha male, the alpha female and the beta child in a human family.”
NEW WILDLIFE COMING TO YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, POSSIBLY A WOLF TOO
May 10th, California: Wolves move on their own, so there are no plans to reintroduce them. However, there have been several species that have been successfully reintroduced, and they’re helping to balance the ecosystem here in Yosemite National Park.
WOLVES TO FIND NEW HOME AT TED TURNER'S NEW MEXICO RANCH
May 10th, New Mexico: One of Ted Turner’s ranches in southern New Mexico will be the new home for a pair of Mexican gray wolves and their soon-to-be-born pups as federal wildlife managers look at more options for boosting the genetic diversity of the endangered species.
SILENCED HOWLS: THE REEMERGENCE OF THE WAR ON WOLVES
May 8th: On Jan. 4, the gray wolf (Canis lupus) was officially delisted from the Endangered Species Act, or ESA, resulting in the reemergence of the war on wolves.
ONLINE OPINION: MONTANA CHALLENGES IDAHO, WYOMING AS MOST ANTI-WOLF STATE
May 6th, Montana: The recent Montana legislative session will be remembered as the most anti-wildlife session in recent history.
NEW GRAY WOLF PACK FORMED IN OKANOGAN COUNTY
May 5th, Washington: WDFW: state’s wolf population still growing
AG TO WILDLIFE COMMISSION: CREATE WEST SLOPE PANEL ON WOLF REINTRODUCTION
May 5th, Colorado: Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser is urging the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission to do a lot more than just include Western Slope residents in public hearings over reintroduction of the gray wolf.
ELDERLY MEXICAN GRAY WOLF DIES AT SAN FRANCISCO ZOO
May 5th, San Francisco: A Mexican gray wolf has died at the San Francisco Zoo & Gardens at the advanced age of 15, the zoo reported.
GROUP ASKS US TO CUT FUNDING TO IDAHO OVER WOLF-KILLING BILL
May 4th, Idaho: A conservation group is asking the U.S. government to cut off millions of dollars to Idaho that is used to improve wildlife habitat and outdoor recreation opportunities because of legislation that could lead to 90% of the state's wolves being killed.
TIME TO GET INVOLVED IN FUTURE OF WISCONSIN WOLVES
May 4th, Wisconsin: Plans for the November wolf hunting season and long-term management plan are underway.
COLORADO PARKS AND WILDLIFE HOLDS 1ST INFORMATIONAL SESSION ON WOLF REINTRODUCTION
May 4th, Colorado - Colorado Parks and Wildlife last week held the first of three informational sessions about wolf reintroduction on the Western Slope, which will happen by the end of 2023.
GROUP ASKS US TO CUT FUNDING TO IDAHO OVER WOLF-KILLING BILL
May 4th, Idaho: A conservation group is asking the U.S. government to cut off millions of dollars to Idaho that is used to improve wildlife habitat and outdoor recreation opportunities because of legislation that could lead to 90% of the state's wolves being killed.
CONSERVATION OFFICERS AWAITING REPORTS OF WOLVES AT THE DOOR IN PORT HARDY
May 4th, British Columbia: Wildlife officials need more direct concrete information before reacting, as social media buzzes