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 […]
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Brian Kelly, the new director of the USFWS office in Boise, states that Idaho’s Lolo Zone 10(j) wolf killing proposal has been put on hold so that the agency can conduct a NEPA review. This is good news but I’m betting that they will try to figure out how to get out of […]
Continue Reading →Wyoming Weekly Wolf News Report Oct 18-29, 2010
Nine Yellowstone Park wolf packs had pups this year: Agate, Black
Tail, Delta, Canyon, 636 group, Lamar, Madison, Molly, Bechler
My other comment is to notice the small number of livestock losses in Wyoming this year.
Continue Reading →News release from Idaho Fish and Game reporting on the result of Governor Otter’s abandonment of wolf management-
US Fish and Wildlife Service takes over wolf management in Idaho.
Continue Reading →Federal government reassumes Idaho wolf management role-
Though doubtful in the short run, hopefully this will lead to fewer livestock losses, fewer government-killed wolves and less controversy, as it was before Idaho took over wolf management.
Service to Resume Lead for Wolf Management in Idaho as a Result of Governor’s Announcement. USFWS news release. […]
Continue Reading →Latest report shows NO association between number of wolves in Wyoming and the number of livestock depredations-
Wyoming Gray Wolf Recovery Status Report. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Sept. 27 through Oct. 1, 2010
Although the report makes no mention of this, the report includes detailed graphs of wolf population and livestock losses to […]
Continue Reading →Possible hitch is discovery that eastern timber wolf is a different species than Great Lakes wolves-
It would certainly be good politics if the wolf could be delisted here because the state wolf management plans and public opinion is so much more favorable than in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. Good work and good folks should […]
Continue Reading →My personal opinion is that moderate groups could sit down and work out a new wolf delisting plan. Of course, this would require the state governments to change their wolf management plans if they want to participate in wolf management. Unfortunately, state politicians are probably not among moderates, especially with an election coming up.
August 20, 2010 update–
Here is the latest wolf news latest wolf news from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for Wyoming where the feds still officially manage wolves. There are links to other resources.
I converted their news from .doc to a pdf file in an effort to make it readable here. Unfortunately […]
Continue Reading →Two adult wolves and six pups killed by Wildlife Services in an area with just one confirmed wolf depredation, a mere lamb-
The state of Wyoming wants to confine wolves to 13% of the state, and Judge Molloy struck that plan down back in 2008. Currently under federal wolf management wolves are allowed to inhabit […]
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