The Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD) announced in the Mexican Wolf Recovery Program Monthly Update that an endangered Mexican gray wolf was found dead in Arizona in August. The male, known as Max or m1911, was cross-fostered into the wild in 2019. Cross-fostering is a coordinated event where captive-born pups are introduced into a similar-aged wild litter […]
Once the doors closed at the Ely Bloomenson Community Hospital MRI unit on Sept. 15, a special patient was wheeled into place for a unique MRI. This patient was a wolf. For the first time in the history of the International Wolf Center and the first time at the hospital, an ambassador wolf from the […]
Shared fFrom Vice.com: A bold question on Colorado’s ballot in November could bring justice to the once-prolific gray wolf—and inflame tensions between urban and rural residents. Proposition 114 will let the public vote Yes or No on the reintroduction of gray wolves to Colorado after a 75-year absence from the state, thanks to the tireless […]
In the late 1940s, a few wolves crossed the ice of Lake Superior to the island wilderness of Isle Royale, creating a perfect “laboratory” for a long-term study of predators and prey. As the wolves hunted and killed the island’s moose, a young graduate student named Dave Mech began research that would unlock the […]
WOW! – HARD TO BELIEVE OR WHAT? Shared from CBC.ca: The source of a mysterious fake letter warning people about grey wolves wandering in Nova Scotia has been found — and it’s the Canadian military. The letter appeared in a number of mailboxes, and it looked like an official note from the Department of Lands and Forestry. […]
It’s that time of year again, when the days begin to fall shorter and the nights colder. As we prepare for the cooler months of autumn and winter, so do the wild species sharing our landscape. For different species, those preparations will vary. But one thing is certain – winter is harsh, and provisions must […]
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has reopened the public comment period and announced a public hearing on the agency’s proposed rule to amend public use regulations for Kenai National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) that would, among other changes, permit trapping, and killing of brown bears over bait and remove the requirement for a federal trapping […]
Taken from The Washington Post: DENVER – Gray wolves howled across the land now known as Colorado for millennia before they were hunted out of existence. Now state residents are deciding whether to let the predators once again lift their voices in the southern Rockies. If approved, a precedent-setting ballot measure would require state biologists to reintroduce […]
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