Wolf News - October 2020

WITH GRAY WOLVES TAKEN OFF ENDANGERED LIST, HOW IS PROP 114 AFFECTED?

October 30th: Gray wolves have been taken off the U.S. endangered species list just as Colorado voters are deciding on a major proposition to reintroduce them in the state.

END OF FEDERAL GRAY WOLF PROTECTIONS COULD LEAD TO HUNTING IN MICHIGAN

October 30th: The Trump administration on Thursday ended Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in most of the United States, which could lead to hunting in Michigan and other states.

ALASKA CONSERVATIONISTS SUE TO BLOCK WOLF TRAPPING SEASON ON SOUTHEAST ISLAND

October 29th: An Alaska conservation group filed a lawsuit to stop the state from reopening wolf trapping season on Prince of Wales Island.

GRAY WOLVES TO BE REMOVED FROM ENDANGERED SPECIES LIST

October 29th: Gray wolves, a species that has long been vilified and admired, will no longer receive federal protections under the Endangered Species Act in the Lower 48 U.S. states, the Trump administration announced Thursday.

BIOPARK WOLF PUPS ENJOY FIRST SNOW

October 27th; The Mexican gray wolves are just five months old and aren’t too sure what to think of the winter weather.

WILD MEXICAN WOLVES AT RISK

October 26th: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is right now* working to remove a wolf or wolves from the Sheepherders Baseball Park or Pitchfork Canyon packs on the Gila National Forest of New Mexico, and it doesn’t make any sense. (Not that public lands ranching ever makes sense.)

LINDSEY BOTTS: WOLVES ARE DOING BETTER IN WISCONSIN BUT STILL FACE THREATS

October 24th: The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources recently reported a 13% increase in the number of wolves in the state over last year, bringing the estimated total to just over 1,000.

LOW SURVIVAL RATE FOR BANFF WOLVES DUE TO HUNTING AND TRAPPING OUTSIDE PARK BOUNDARIES

October 23rd: “They are effectively unprotected and subjected to high risks of mortality from hunting and trapping outside the park boundaries, and even highway and railway mortality inside Banff National Park.”

$6,150 REWARD FOR INFO ON OREGON WOLF KILLER

October 23rd: Someone shot a wolf in Oregon, leaving its pack without a breeding male, wildlife officials said on Friday as they announced a $6,150 reward for the shooter.

STUDY TO LOOK CLOSER AT RED WOLF ANCESTRY

October 23rd: Barely two weeks after a federal court ordered the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to update its management of the critically endangered red wolf population in northeastern North Carolina, a team of scientists has been asked for the second time to determine if the red wolf is wolf enough.

STATE WITHHOLDS PRINCE OF WALES WOLF POPULATION ESTIMATE FROM SUBSISTENCE COUNCIL

October 22nd: An estimate of Prince of Wales Island’s wolf population is complete and in the hands of state and federal wildlife managers. But officials refused this week to share their numbers with a regional council tasked with advising subsistence hunting and trapping on federal land. This comes as a petition is pending to list Southeast’s wolves as a threatened species.

METRO RICHMOND ZOO OPENING NEW GRAY WOLF EXHIBIT

October 21st: The Metro Richmond Zoo announced the opening of a new gray wolf exhibit, making this the first time the zoo has housed gray wolves.

THE DIRE WOLF MIGHT HAVE PROWLED ASIA, FOSSIL SUGGESTS

October 15th: Heftier than modern-day gray wolves and capable of cracking the bones of their prey, dire wolves were among the Pleistocene’s most-feared hunters.

ELDERLY GRAY WOLF DIES AT SMITHSONIAN’S NATIONAL ZOO

October 14th: American Trail keepers at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo are mourning the loss of Coby, a female gray wolf who was humanely euthanized Sept. 30. At 16 years old, Coby was considered geriatric for her species. The median life expectancy for a gray wolf is about eight years in the wild; in human care, the typical life span is 10 to 15 years.

WOLF FOUND SHOT DEAD IN EASTERN OREGON; STATE POLICE SEEK TIPS IN 'UNLAWFUL KILLING'

October 14th: Oregon State Police made a public appeal for tips Wednesday in an investigation into the unlawful shooting and killing of a wolf in Eastern Oregon.

POACHER WHO KILLED 18 WOLVES IN MICHIGAN GETS JAIL TIME, LOSES HUNTING PRIVILEGES

October 14th: An Upper Peninsula man accused of poaching numerous animals in Michigan, including 18 gray wolves, will serve time behind bars and won't be allowed to hunt for the rest of his life.

ONE ESCAPED WOLF CAPTURED, SIX STILL ON THE RUN AFTER FRENCH FLOODS

October 14th: French authorities have caught a black Canadian wolf that escaped from a wildlife park during heavy flooding in southern France more than a week ago but six others remain on the run.

WOLVES ATTACHED: ADULT WOLVES MISS THEIR HUMAN HANDLER IN SEPARATION SIMILAR TO DOGS.

October 14th: Based on a new study published in Scientific Reports by researchers of the Department of Ethology at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, adult, intensively socialized wolves form individualized social bonds with their human handlers.

SHY WOLF SANCTUARY ADOPTS HYBRID MODEL FOR WOLFSTOCK 2020

October 12th: Shy Wolf Sanctuary Education and Experience Center hopes to replicate the success of its Wolfstock 2019 event — albeit in a different format.

STORY OF TAKAYA, THE LONE WOLF OF DISCOVERY ISLAND, TOUCHED PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD

October 11th: Local sculptors are now creating pieces to honour the animal, and an entire arts festival featuring work by artists from around the world is planned for Oct. 24 in Nootka Court.

NEW RECOVERY PLAN FOR NEARLY EXTINCT RED WOLVES DUE IN 28 MONTHS

October 10th: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has until Feb. 28, 2023, to complete an updated recovery plan for red wolves, only nine of which are known to exist in the wild today, following an agreement signed last Friday in U.S. District Court for Eastern North Carolina.

HEALTHY WOLVES AND LOW CARIBOU COUNTS; STATE PREDATION CONTROL PROGRAM CONTINUES IN BRISTOL BAY

October 9th: The Mulchatna caribou population has dropped to about half what biologists expected in the recent years, and the predation control program is aimed at allowing the herd to grow.

WHAT'S COLORADO'S PROPOSITION 114: REINTRODUCING GRAY WOLVES

October 7th: Many believe wolves should be part of the state’s natural ecosystem; others say wolves will threaten people, animals

WOLVES ON THE BALLOT

October 7th: On Nov. 3, voters get their say about restoring the predators to the Western Slope

FRENCH RANGERS TO TRY CAPTURING WOLVES ESCAPED DURING FLOODING

October 6th: French authorities have localised a group of seven wolves that escaped a Mediterranean wildlife park during flooding over the weekend and will attempt to capture them on Wednesday.

LEGAL VICTORY SECURES NEW RECOVERY PLAN FOR ENDANGERED RED WOLVES

October 5th: With Nine Collared Wolves Left in Wild, Species Remains on Brink of Extinction

MEET ZOOMONTANA'S NEWEST GREY WOLF PUP

October 2nd: Wildlife Correspondent Tanner Saul and Meteorologist Lewis Dortch introduce us to an abandoned wolf pup, who will soon meet his new pack at ZooMontana.

WILDLIFE ADVOCATES ASK FOR CANCELLATION OF PRINCE OF WALES WOLF SEASON

October 1st: Conservationists are urging state and federal game managers not to reopen the hunting and trapping season for wolves around Prince of Wales Island. That’s to allow the population to recover from last season’s record harvest.