January 2012
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The Wolf Moon →
November 2011
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Sweden Plans to Exterminate Wolves →
A new political party has launched on a single issue platform: all wolves must die.
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Wolf hunt to close in 30 counties →
The hunting of wolves in 30 Montana counties, including Lewis and Clark and Jefferson, will close today at a half hour after sunset.
October 2011
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Wolf Hunting: More is not better. →
It’s also not uncommon for wolves to be mortally wounded by elk hooves and horns, according to the study. One of its co-authors, wildlife ecologist Dan MacNulty, an assistant professor in Utah State University’s Department of Wildland Resources, shares another finding…
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Emergency halt to wolf hunts →
“Inserting environmental policy changes into appropriations bills may be politically expedient, but it transgresses the process envisioned by the Constitution by avoiding the very debate on issues of political importance said to provide legitimacy,” Molloy wrote. “Policy changes of questionable political viability, such as occurred here, can be forced using insider tactics...
New Maine law aims to eliminate wolf hybrids from...
Wolf hybrids, animals that are a cross between wolves and dogs, will vanish from Maine over time if a new state law works as designed.
The law prohibits people from acquiring wolf hybrids without a special wildlife-in-captivity permit, and it requires current owners to have the animals neutered.
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Mosaics - Waning Wolves →
One might deduce from all this coverage over the past century—and the accompanying awareness about the necessity of wolf preservation— that the future of the species is looking bright. Sadly, this is not the case, and the time wolves have left grows shorter every day: the time to act is now.
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September 2011
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Larger wolf packs are less successful in the hunt →
“Wolves aren’t as effective hunters as we think they are. That perception is premised on the notion that each individual contributes to the hunt, so there is an additive effect when the group is bigger. That is just not the case,” said MacNulty, an assistant professor of wildland resources. “Individuals are responding to the threat of injury and death that large prey poses, so...
Kill order may spell end for wolf pack →
The decision to kill two more wolves for preying on livestock could mean the end of the first Oregon wolf pack to successfully breed since efforts began to restore the predators.
Captive wolf on the lam →
The wolf escaped from Wolf People, which operates a retail store on U.S. Highway 95 near Cocolalla, Idaho, and keeps captive wolves for viewing and filming, according to the Idaho Department of Fish and Game.
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Park superintendent criticizes wolf plan
“Many of the individuals who are supportive of wolf restoration are very interested in conserving the packs that use the national parks,” Scott said. “[Grand Teton National Park] visitors have consistently cited wildlife viewing as the primary draw to the park, and viewing wolves is of great interest.”
Last Chance To Comment On Wyoming’s Wolf Plan →
Wyoming’s current proposal for wolf management, unlike neighboring states Idaho and Montana, allows for unlicensed hunting of the animal in most of the state for all of the year.
August 2011
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July 2011
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Wolf Hunting Seasons Set →
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Wolf Habitat Loses Legal Battle →
A powerful conservation group in Westchester County won a legal battle to keep a proposed wolf habitat and education center off eight acres of protected land.
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June 2011
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Wolf in the crosshairs... →
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1st wolf pack in 70 years on the brink →
The time it took to investigate a Twisp family in a wolf poaching case may have led to more poaching and the eventual the end of the state’s first confirmed pack in 70 years, a conservation group says.
The Dog Catcher Bags Any Mutt, Zoo Decides to Kill... →
Minnesota Zoo officials and wolf experts disagreed Thursday over the threat posed by the Mexican gray wolf that briefly escaped its pen on Wednesday before being shot to death.
May 2011
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... wolf hunt quotas by August. →
… wildlife policy makers could set wolf hunt quotas by August after Congress last month directed the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to delist the predators.
What if....
…the energy crisis ended yesterday.
April 2011
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listening to "Johnny Cash - Drums" →
…thanks Ray. Remembering the that last song on the way back from A-town. I’ll miss you my friend. Godspeed.
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Wolf "disaster bill" signed into law... →
Butch Otter has signed into law a measure to allow the state to declare a disaster due to wolves and take emergency measures to comabt the animals.
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U.S. Congress Removes Wolves from Endangered... →
Congress, for the first time ever, has removed an animal from the Endangered Species List. Unfortunately for the northern Rocky Mountain grey wolf, it was caught in the crossfire (soon to be literally!) of last Friday’s Federal Budget compromise and is no longer considered endangered.
Hunters Slam Wolf Population Proposal →
There are currently around 200 wolves in the country and Liljelund argued in the interim statement that the number needs to be boosted to around 450 in order to sustain genetic variation.
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listening to "Howlin →
….another sign of the times looking through the newsfeed
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Senate to debate wolf disaster bill →
It would allow Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter to enlist local law enforcement agents to help eliminate wolves in the state. Lawmakers behind the effort describe wolves as bloodthirsty monsters that would attack children.
March 2011
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Judge hears sides on wolf hunts →
Complicating matters, the settlement has fractured both sides of the wolf delisting case, resulting in a courtroom Thursday with almost two dozen lawyers representing different factions.
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Wolves: U.S. Fish and Wildlife goes for partial... →
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Friday it had reached an agreement to lift gray wolf Endangered Species protections in Montana and Idaho, but not Wyoming.
But it’s not a done deal.
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Crying wolf? Oil companies that fought the...
All oil companies can technically drill in the Gulf again, after Secretary of the Interior Kenneth Salazar lifted the moratorium, which began in May of 2010, in October. The government just issued its first deepwater drilling permit since the BP (BP) disaster to Noble Energy on February 28. Offshore operators were vocal that the moratorium would hit them hard, but now, nearly a year later, did the...
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Escaped wolf, Baby Martin, is back home →
Baby Martin, the wolf missing for 12 days in Upper Mount Bethel Township, is back home. His owner, Tom Nelson, tracked him to Bartonsville, Monroe County, where he shot him with a tranquilizer dart about 4:30 this evening after more than an hour of tracking him.
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Wolves find few friends among Montana lawmakers →
Lawmakers are advancing a slate of bills that call for decreasing protections for the gray wolf, while Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer encouraged ranchers and state agents last month to kill wolves in defiance of the federal Endangered Species Act.
Larry Craig returns to Congress, lobbies for wolf... →
Craig, whose 2007 arrest in a Minneapolis airport’s bathroom for soliciting sex led to his retirement in 2009, returned to Capitol Hill nearly as soon as he could have. Former senators are forbidden from returning as lobbyists for two years.
February 2011
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Still one tough wolf… http://bit.ly/eN8UyD
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Rise of the Wolf →
Wolves killed 63 cattle, most of which were calves, worth a total of $113,586, according to a new report from the state Department of Natural Resources. Between 25 and 27 packs of wolves are believed to have carried out the killings along with a handful of lone wolves.
‘Federal wolf recovery experts say that the reintroduction of the gray wolf is a success,’ Matheson said in a...
listening to "Wolfmother - Joker and the Thief" →
…of feeling just a pinch warmer when rocking the thirty below on #TwoForTuesday
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...man charged with possessing wolf hybrids →
Hybrids are illegal to own in Alaska unless grandfathered before Jan. 23, 2002. They also must be neutered, licensed, vaccinated against rabies, registered and microchipped.
January 2011
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Mexican wolf dies, but her legacy lives →
Estrella, the female Mexican wolf born at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in 1997, was found shot to death in western New Mexico in early December. Whether the shooter mistook the target for a coyote probably will never be known.
Convicted guide in wolf case may go to prison
The 40-year-old guide was convicted of bear baiting and other illegal hunting activities. He was believed to have shot Romeo, an unusually friendly black wolf that frequented the Mendenhall Glacier area. The wolf disappeared in 2009. Read more
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Sweden's wolf hunt courts controversy →
Environment officials from the European Union are preparing to prosecute the Swedish government after it again allowed the hunting of wild and endangered wolves.
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December 2010
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Not Crying Wolf →
For the past eight years, Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has released the Ready or Not? report to ascertain how well the nation’s public health system is prepared to respond to disease outbreaks, natural disasters, or acts of bioterrorism.
November 2010
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Wolf bills unlikely to advance this Congress →
Lawmakers from the Northern Rockies say pending bills to remove gray wolves from the endangered species list have little chance of passage this Congress.
Wyoming wins wolf lawsuit
“There is no scientific or commercial data that suggest the state’s dual classification of wolves, in and of itself, cannot meet, accomplish, and maintain the identified recovery goals [in the greater Yellowstone area], including northwestern Wyoming,” Judge Johnson wrote in the decision.
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October 2010
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Wildlife officials urge Congress to end wolf...
“This is probably the most important issue facing wildlife conservation of this generation,” said Don Peay, representing Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife and Big Game Forever. “[Wolf populations] are growing exponentially, and it will get worse, not better.”