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Wolf News - August 2025
YELLOWSTONE-AREA WOLVES OBSERVED MOVING PUPS TO FOLLOW ELK — UPENDING SCIENTIFIC ASSUMPTIONS
August 31st: Scientific research has long assumed gray wolves are non-migratory during springtime, staying anchored to tend to litters of nearly helpless pups.
MANY OF COLORADO’S WOLVES SHIFT EAST — INCLUDING INTO WATERSHEDS NEAR BOULDER, NEW MAP SHOWS
August 28th, Colorado: CPW has suspended attempt to kill uncollared wolf connected to livestock killings.
INDICTMENT IN WYOMING WOLF KILLING PUTS HUMAN INDIFFERENCE IN THE SPOTLIGHT
August 26th, Wyoming: We take comfort in a small but positive bend in the moral universe’s arc toward justice for animals after a Wyoming grand jury’s indictment of a man for shocking and callous cruelty to a gray wolf.
COLORADO PARKS AND WILDLIFE ENDS SEARCH FOR WOLF ATTACKING LIVESTOCK IN RIO BLANCO COUNTY
August 26th, Colorado: The agency was unable to kill the uncollared wolf.
MONTANA FISH AND WILDLIFE COMMISSION APPROVES INCREASED WOLF QUOTA FOR HUNTING AND TRAPPING SEASON
August 25th, Montana: New regulations came after hours of debate and public comment; new limit set at 452 wolves statewide
ALBERTA WOLF-DOG SANCTUARY FULL, UNABLE TO TAKE MAN’S ANIMALS SET TO BE SEIZED BY ONTARIO GOVERNMENT
August 23rd: A wolfdog sanctuary near Cochrane in Alberta says it can not come to the aid of an Ontario man whose animals are being seized by the provincial government.
YAMNUSKA WOLFDOG SANCTUARY RECEIVES $125K FOR VISITOR EXPERIENCE
August 22nd: The Yamnuska Wolfdog Sanctuary is getting a boost from the Alberta government to improve its facilities for visitors.
MEXICAN WOLF FATALLY SHOT BY AIR UNDER FEDERAL ORDER RAISES CONCERNS AMONG ADVOCATES
August 21st: Wildlife advocates are raising alarms about a female Mexican gray wolf in a New Mexico pack that was lethally shot from an aircraft last week under a federal kill order.
GRAND JURY INDICTS CODY ROBERTS, INFAMOUS WYOMING WOLF CAPTOR, ON FELONY ANIMAL CRUELTY
August 20th, Wyoming: Eighteen months after Roberts’ actions incited global outrage, a grand jury decided the Daniel resident should face felony charges.
WOLF KILLED ON ISLE ROYALE AFTER BECOMING HABITUATED TO HUMAN FOOD, DISPLAYING 'ESCALATING BOLDNESS'
August 20th, Michigan: Isle Royale National Park officials had to kill a wolf that was becoming too conditioned to human food and displayed "escalating boldness" around people.
STATE GAME COMMISSIONER REMOVED AFTER ROLE IN WOLF MEDIA CAMPAIGN DISCOVERED
August 14th, New Mexico: One of New Mexico's seven state game commissioners has been removed from her post due to her involvement in a marketing campaign pushing for looser protections for the Mexican gray wolf.
MONTANA’S IMPLAUSIBLE WOLF MANAGEMENT PLAN
August 13th, Montana: Such poor management techniques have severe environmental consequences.
WOLFDOGS IN NORTHERN WISCONSIN HELP VETERANS DEAL WITH PTSD
August 13th, Wisconsin: Wolfdogs in northern Wisconsin are helping war veterans deal with their post-traumatic stress disorder.
DIRE WOLF MEET-UP: WATCH COLOSSAL'S FEMALE WOLF FROLIC WITH OLDER BROTHERS
August 12th: Colossal Biosciences created three dire wolves using genetic engineering. Now that the wolves have gotten older – the two males are approaching one year old – they are being assimilated into a pack.
THE WEST’S WOLVES CAN’T GO TO COURT FOR FEDERAL PROTECTION, SO WE WENT FOR THEM AND WON
August 11th: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service didn’t follow the law to protect wolves from Montana’s, Idaho’s, and Wyoming’s extermination policies, writes guest columnist Mike Garrity.
PUPS CONFIRMED IN ONLY THREE OF CALIFORNIA’S 10 WOLF PACKS
August 11th, California: Only three of California’s 10 known wolf families have produced pups this year, according to the California Department of Fish and Game’s quarterly update, which details known wolf information from April through June.
WOLVES’ CONTINUED SPREAD IN CALIFORNIA BRINGS JOY, CONTROVERSY & CONFLICTS
August 11th, California: Once the most widespread mammal on the planet, gray wolves roamed across large swaths of North America, Europe and Asia.
OUTDOOR SPORTING GROUPS APPEAL FEDERAL COURT RULING ON GRAY WOLF PROTECTIONS
August 10th: Judge ruled U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service must reconsider decision about relisting wolves in the Rocky Mountains under the Endangered Species Act.
UNCOLLARED WOLF BLAMED FOR MULTIPLE SHEEP DEATHS IN NORTHWESTERN COLORADO
August 5th, Colorado: Colorado Parks and Wildlife says the animal meets the definition of chronic depredation, but because of the Elk Fire in Rio Blanco County, the wolf cannot be removed.
JUDGE ORDERS ANOTHER DO-OVER FOR GRAY WOLF ESA STATUS
August 5th: The Fish and Wildlife Service must now examine whether wolves in certain Rocky Mountain states should receive federal protection, which was stripped by Congress in 2011.
GRAY WOLVES MIGRATE DURING PUP-REARING OUTSIDE ARCTIC REGIONS
August 4th: Witness the adventurous spirit of Gray Wolves as they travel with their pups over twenty kilometers for food near Yellowstone.
ALBERTA PARKS 'CLOSELY MONITORING' CONTINUED WOLF SIGHTINGS IN KANANASKIS
August 4th, Canada: Wolf possibly habituated to humans, rehabilitation not an option.
KILLING "PROBLEM WOLF" IN UTRECHT EASIER SAID THAN DONE
August 3rd, Netherlands: Authorities are struggling to locate and kill a so-called “problem wolf” in Utrecht, after a 6-year-old boy was likely bitten while playing near the Pyramide van Austerlitz on Friday.
RONALD D. REED: THE REAL PROBLEM ISN’T THE WOLVES — IT’S US
August 3rd: But after nearly two decades of wolf recovery, why are we still responding with rifles rather than solutions?
NEW PUPS CEDAR AND ROWAN JOIN EXHIBIT PACK AT INTERNATIONAL WOLF CENTER
August 2nd: This past weekend the International Wolf Center successfully introduced its two newest ambassador wolves, Cedar and Rowan, to the Exhibit Pack, according to a news release.