Wyoming Wolves
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Wolfwatcher wants old wolf hunting sub-units from Montana 2011 hunt reestablished- Yellowstone Park’s response to dead Park wolves is blasé- Controversy over the seven dead Yellowstone Park wolves killed in the Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming hunting seasons continues. None of the Park wolves were actually killed inside the Park. This would be illegal, but most…
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Story is of little interest to Wyoming media- Dogs running loose have killed 44 sheep north of Riverton, Wyoming. Perhaps a score or more were injured. The incident has received minor attention from the Wyoming media. The story got more attention than a story about a bar fight, but not much, but what if wolves…
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Wolves now under Wyoming control and they are already being shot in state’s first wolf hunting season- Mike Jimenez, who has managed wolves in Wyoming for U.S. government for years now with a slowly growing wolf population and minimal livestock depredations, has written his last wolf news report. Here it is converted to a PDF…
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Today, several groups filed a notice of intent (NOI) to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) over its decision to delist wolves in Wyoming. Delisting comes after USFWS accepted the minor changes made to the Wyoming wolf management plan which allows wolves to be killed by anyone, for any reason, and by any method…
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Conservation groups angry; Wyoming wolf population delisted- Wyoming politicians were the ones most opposed to the restoration of wolves to the American Northern Rocky mountains. They filed numerous lawsuits against the program, which they generally lost. Now they have won. The Obama Administration has delisted wolves in Wyoming, and a hunting season beginning Oct. 1 will begin…
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Wyoming wolf population is stable and depredations of livestock low- Mike Jimenez manages the wolves in Wyoming outside of Yellowstone National Park. He works for the federal government. This is because Wyoming wolves are not yet delisted from the protection of the endangered species act. Jimenez has just released the latest statistics and details of…
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The final peer review report commissioned by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and conducted by Atkins, a global consulting firm, who enlisted 5 prominent biologists to review and comment on Wyoming’s Gray Wolf Management Plan, has found that the Plan is deficient primarily because of its vagueness with regard to maintaining a buffer number…
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The Kind of Article We Used To See About Personal Courage and Commitment- Oprah Magazine, O, is running a lengthy and well written article about wolves in NW Wyoming. These are the Wyoming wolves that do not live in the protected, though relatively small, confines of Yellowstone National Park. It is a story about one…