Good news for wolves keeps rolling out.
The Great Lakes wolves have won reprieve in federal court, preventing the Bush’s Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) attempt to delist:
Court rules against U.S. in Great Lakes wolf case – AP
Continue Reading →A Wisconsin study demonstrates a model showing that wolves are least abundant where there are roads or agriculture. Road density and ag land good predictor of wolf presence (or absence, as is the case).
[Wisconsin] Wolves are lying low – JSOnline
Continue Reading →537 to 564 wolves at the end of 2007 versus 540 and 577 wolves at the end of 2006. Story in the Chicago Tribune. “DNR: Wis. wolf population could be leveling off.” By The Associated Press.
It’s what everyone should expect. Every animal population reaches a peak. Idaho’s wolf population growth slowed greatly […]
Continue Reading →Department of Natural Resources says only one wolf shot during deer hunt. By Robert Imrie. Associated Press writer in the Appleton Post-Crescent.
It wasn’t even a wolf; it was a hybrid.
It is true the wolves are much better accepted in the Great Lakes States than in Idaho, Montana or Wyoming.
Continue Reading →~I think this is the most important wolf story in quite a while~
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Perhaps the greatest success story in terms of numbers is the recovery of the wolf in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
Recovery began, however, before genetic analysis had advanced. Far more is known today, and the recovered wolf […]
Continue Reading →Richard Thiel, Wisconsin’s first wolf biologist, received honors in DC for his role with wolf education.
The article also gives a brief description of recovery in the mid-West.
Tomah man honored for work with wolves
The Tomah Journal
By Keith Zukas
On July 6, the US Fish and Wildlife Service will publish a new proposed rule 10j in the Federal Register, that will make it every easy for state agencies and even private persons to kill wolves even without them being delisted. They won’t have to scientifically prove that wolves are depleting elk herds, essentially they […]
Continue Reading →State Wolf Population Numbers Below Preliminary Estimate. Wisconsin Ag Connection.
Continue Reading →The wolf population continues to grow in “the badger state.” Story in the Green Bay Gazette. It’s getting close to 600. The state is now taking over management.
Wolves have been treated much more gently in the Great Lakes states than in Idaho, Montana or Wyoming, and I think it’s really too bad that […]
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This is regarding the delisting in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota. The parties suing are the Human Society of the United States, the Animal Protection Institute, and Help Our Wolves Live.
Groups sue to keep gray wolf on endangered species list
Minnesota Public Radio (AP)
St. Paul, Minn. — (AP) – Three […]
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