US WILDLIFE OFFICIALS AIM TO REMOVE WOLF PROTECTIONS IN 2020

August 31st: The Trump administration plans to lift endangered species protections for gray wolves across most of the nation by the end of the year, the director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Monday.

N.W.T. HARVESTERS WILL GET MORE TRAINING TO KILL WOLVES, HELP CARIBOU POPULATION

August 27th: Territory's aerial wolf cull program began in April to reduce caribou predators

DEFENDERS SUES TO PROTECT ALASKA'S BEARS AND WOLVES

August 26th: A lawsuit filed today in federal District Court in Alaska charges the Interior Department and National Park Service with violating multiple laws when adopting a rule that would open up national preserves in Alaska to hunting practices like baiting brown bears and killing wolves during the denning season.

ARE GRAY WOLVES BACK? A PUPPY SIGHTING IN NORTHWEST COLORADO IS THE BEST CLUE YET

August 26th: While the sighting is far from solid evidence of wild wolf breeding, it comes at a political crossroads for the species.

WOLVES AND WOLF-DOGS EVACUATED BECAUSE OF WILDFIRES NOW SAFE AT WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY IN KEENEBURG

August 25th: Wolves and wolf-dogs that had to be evacuated because of the Cameron Peak and Lewstone fires in northern Colorado are now being sheltered at The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Kennesburg.

FOUR WOLVES TAKEN FROM DELL CREEK PACK

August 25th: Game & Fish requests removal after recent cattle kills.

WOLF WEBINAR OFFERED BY WISCONSIN'S GREEN FIRE

August 22nd: Management of gray wolves is a hot topic for debate wherever the species is found, including Wisconsin.

YOUNG WOLVES SPOTTED IN THE BESKYDY MOUNTAINS, FIRST CONFIRMED BREEDING

August 20th: The wolf pack that settled in the Beskydy Mountains near the Czech-Polish border a few years ago gave birth to baby wolves this spring. This is the first confirmed breeding of wolves in this area since their return.

REMEMBERING THE BIRTH OF ISLE ROYALE'S WOLF-MOOSE STUDY

August 19th: When L. David Mech arrived at Isle Royale in 1959, he had no idea he would pioneer the nation’s longest-running prey-predator study, one that would become a model for wildlife biologists around the world.

MINNESOTA DNR VIRTUAL DEER MEETINGS COVER HOT TOPICS

August 19th: Keller reminded participants that wolves are federally protected and off-limits to state management unless and until its federal endangered.

MICHIGAN RECORDS CONFIRM EXTREMELY FEW WOLF LIVESTOCK CONFLICTS IN 2019

August 19th: Official records show that in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, only six out of approximately 900 livestock operations, or about 0.006 percent, experienced a conflict with wolves in 2019. The number of farms experiencing a conflict has been consistent over the past five years. Records also confirmed that very few of the U.P.’s wolf packs are involved with livestock

MEXICAN WOLF RECOVERY PROGRAM MONTHLY UPDATE

August 19th: The following is a summary of Mexican Wolf Recovery Program activities in the Mexican Wolf Experimental Population Area (MWEPA) in Arizona, including the Fort Apache Indian Reservation (FAIR), San Carlos Apache Reservation (SCAR), and New Mexico.

WATCH YELLOWSTONE WOLVES AND GRIZZLY FACE OFF OVER CARCASS

August 18th:New video shows two of the most prolific predators in Yellowstone. It's a pack of wolves and a grizzly trying to determine who ends up with a prize carcass.

WRITES ON THE RANGE: COLORADO NEEDS WOLVES

August 18th: Colorado voters will soon have a historic opportunity to overcome a monumental injustice. If voters choose to say “yes” to a citizens’ initiative on Nov. 3, wolves will again mingle on a continental scale, from the Arctic to Mexico. Harnessing direct democracy to instigate endangered species restoration is unprecedented, but it will revive the dynamic and healthy balance of wolves with their prey — to the benefit of future generations.

STATE WILDLIFE AGENCY KILLS FINAL TO WOLVES IN NORTHEASTERN WASHINGTON WEDGE PACK

August 17th: “WDFW’s priority should not be killing wolves for displaying normal wolf behavior,″ said Zoe Hanley of Defenders of Wildlife. “This recurring cycle of killing wolves on our public lands cannot continue. Defenders of Wildlife will keep calling for effective management protocols — including range riding — that protect humans and wolves.”

A 14,000-YEAR-OLD PUPPY, WHOSE PERFECTLY PRESERVED BODY WAS FOUND IN RUSSIA, MUNCHED ON A WOOLLY RHINO FOR ITS LAST MEAL

August 17th: Scientists studying the body of a perfectly preserved Ice Age puppy have made an unexpected discovery — a piece of what could be one of the last woolly rhinos inside its stomach. Russian researchers first excavated the preserved, furry body of the canine — which could be a dog or a wolf — from a site in Tumat, Siberia, in 2011.

WDFW REMOVES TIM COLEMAN FROM WOLF ADVISORY GROUP; LETHAL REMOVAL ORDER ISSUED FOR LEADPOINT PACK

August 14th: A member of the state’s Wolf Advisory Group has been dismissed from the committee by Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife director Kelly Susewind in the latest twist of hotly debated issues surround wolf-kill orders in northeast Washington. Tim Coleman, executive director of Kettle Range Conservation Group [and strong wolf advocate], was removed Aug. 3.

WISCONSIN DNR LOOKS TO EDUCATE HUNTERS, HIKERS ABOUT WOLVES AFTER HUNTING DOG KILLED

August 13th: “A healthy wolf population and of course we have a lot of outdoor recreation occurring and a lot of livestock and dairy farms and beef farms in the state,” says Brad Koele, a wildlife damage specialist with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. “With any wildlife species you can have conflicts that occur."

WHY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT IS ALLOWING BEARS, WOLVES, TO BE HUNTED IN THEIR DENS

August 13th, Alaska: Writer Rachel Nuwer investigates the rollback of a rule banning controversial hunting methods in Alaska's national preserves

LAW PAVES WAY FOR "COEXISTENCE BETWEEN WOLVES AND HUMANS"

August 13th, Switzerland: The reform of the hunting law is aimed at boosting biodiversity and serves as a legal basis to deal with the growing wolf population, says Stefan Engler. The senator and representative of the centrist Christian Democratic Party explains why he recommends voter approve the reform in a nationwide on September 27.

STATE TO KILL MORE WOLVES THAT ATTACK LIVESTOCK

August 11th: The state of Washington has ordered that more endangered wolves be killed in a pack that continued to prey on cattle in Stevens County even after one member was eliminated.

FRAMING WOLVES IN NEW MEXICO?

August 4th: Late in May 2020, the Arizona Daily Star ran an article titled, “Advocates question investigations used to target ‘problem’ wolves,” detailing some of the work that Western Watersheds Project has been doing to review and assess Wildlife Services’ work on livestock killed by Mexican wolves in New Mexico.

WOLF RESEARCHERS IN VOYAGEURS NATIONAL PARK BELIEVE UNLIKELY FOOD SOURCE MAY BE BEHIND MOOSE SUCCESS

August 4th: Deep in the woods of Voyageurs National Park, on the remote Kabetogama Peninsula just south of Rainy Lake, a small and isolated moose population is surviving, even as others in Minnesota have been cut in half or wiped out.

WILDLIFE BIOLOGISTS DISCUSS SOUTHERN OREGON WOLF KILLS

August 3rd: Wildlife biologists for state and federal wildlife service offices in Klamath Falls said both agencies are working cooperatively to reduce wolf kills of cattle in the Klamath Basin.