Wolf Saga

Timely reports and insights about this much-maligned predator and its domesticated relatives along with inspired wildlife perspectives that affect the future of wolves

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Tracking seminar offered this weekend

By JOHN PEPIN, Journal Munising Bureau MUNISING — The first of three upcoming seminars on wildlife tracking skills will be offered this week...

Crying wolf? Committee looking to control population

By Howard Meyerson - Grand Rapids Press Outdoors Editor A citizens advisory committee looking at whether Michigan's gray wolf population...

U.P. wolf killings probed

By SCOTT SWANSON, Journal Staff Writer MARQUETTE — At least six wolves have been killed in the western Upper Peninsula since the beginning o...

Half-Breed Wolf Dog Hero Rescues Elderly Owners From Snowstorm

By Liza Porteus NEW YORK — When Eve and Norman Fertig rescued a sick, two-week-old half wolf, half German shepherd puppy from a breeder almo...

Wolf deaths up as management changes, numbers increase

BILLINGS, Mont. - The number of wolves shot this year by government agents and livestock producers in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho has surpass...

Ranchers seek to band together

By JOHN MORGAN - Star-Tribune staff writer Wyoming ranchers will need to band together to protect their interests against potentially harmfu...

Agents, landowners killing more wolves

By MIKE STARK Of The Gazette Staff Wolves caught eating what they shouldn't are paying a higher price these days. A record number have b...

Officials don't know if predator was wolf or where it came from

By MIKE STARK Of The Gazette Staff Was it a wolf or wasn't it? The mysterious, sheep-killing predator shot and killed a month ago betwee...

Idaho researchers say wolves aren't decimating elk

The Associated Press MCCALL, Idaho -- A pair of University of Idaho researchers living in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness say...

Man pleads guilty to trying to poison wolves with meatballs

KTVB A former Salmon resident now living in Montana has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of trying to kill endangered gray wolves with...

Monday, November 13, 2006

Snowy Yellowstone a wondrous backdrop for wolf-watching

By John Flinn - San Francisco Chronicle Yellowstone National Park · The wolves were at our door -- almost literally. They killed a big bull ...

(Virtually) Run With The Wolves

Minnesota Zoo Computer Program Allows Users To Live (And Maybe Die) In The Wild Mary Tan- WCCO-TV (WCCO) Apple Valley, Minn. The Minnesota Z...

Endangered wolves on display at Minnesota Zoo hopes to breed wolves

Three of North America's most endangered wolves went on exhibit at the Minnesota Zoo on Thursday. Zookeepers hope the captive-bred femal...

Italy claims Swiss are killing protected wolves

By Peter Popham ROME - Italy is this week to call on its European neighbours to put a halt to the "extermination" of wolves, whic...

5 wolves killed after attacks on cattle

By The Associated Press AVON - Wildlife officials killed five wolves this week on private land south of here, the Montana Department of Fish...

Sanctuary installing security measures after poisonings

BROKEN ARROW, Okla. A Broken Arrow animal sanctuary is installing security measures to protect its animals after three wolves were poisoned ...

No scientific basis for current wolf control program

By Gordon Haber Alaska’s aerial wolf-killing program now covers five areas equal to about two-thirds the size of Wyoming. Wolf control using...

Wolf Saga returns

Sorry for the interruption in posting to Wolf Saga. Personal and technical demands required my attention.

Sunday, October 15, 2006

Yellowstone Wolf Report- Agate, Slough, Druid News

Wolf watcher Cindy Knight posts an interesting report on some Yellowstone wolf packs on Ralph Maughan's new Wildlife News site: Ralph Ma...

Wyoming sues U.S. Fish and Wildlife over wolf plan

By CAT URBIGKIT - Star-Tribune correspondent The chasm remains vast between the state and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Wyoming’s at...

Kempthorne likely to seek Endangered Species Act changes

By FAITH BREMNER - Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — Conservation groups expect Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to seek major change...

Utah offers bounty for dead coyote ears

Written by Mark Watson In an effort to help increase the deer population and also protect grazing sheep in Utah, the state provides mone...

Wolves have made huge comeback in U.P.

MARQUETTE, Mich. It's Wolf Awareness Week in Michigan, and the state is hoping to clear up misinformation about the animals. Nearly exte...

Targeted Vaccinations Could Save Ethiopian Wolves

GLASGOW, Scotland, October 12, 2006 (ENS) - Specific groups of Ethiopian wolves must be targeted for rabies vaccination in order to prevent ...

Forest Workers Evacuated After Hearing Wolves

KETCHUM, Idaho The sound of howling wolves prompted two "very scared" U.S. Forest Service employees from Utah to call for a helico...

Monday, September 25, 2006

Madison wolves targeted for death

By Nick Gevock of The Montana Standard ENNIS — The hunt is on for two wolves that have attacked and maimed three heifers so badly near Ennis...

Suspected wolf on Zumwalt may be vanguard in Oregon

By Elane Dickenson Biologists have not yet been able to positively confirm the presence of a young black wolf on the Zumwalt Prairie of Wall...

Federal plan would remove Great Lakes wolves from endangered, threatened lists

By Kurt Krueger - News-Review Editor More than a year after its initial plan was reversed in federal court, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Ser...

Trappers hired to capture escaped wolf hybrids in N.H.

LEMPSTER, N.H. — One of the seven wolf-hybrids that escaped from a pen this week returned on its own, and the police chief figured the other...

Saturday, September 23, 2006

Willow & Twister Howl at Wolf Park

Wolves attack three heifers in Montana's Madison Valley

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) - A Montana landowner has been given a shoot-on-sight permit to kill up to two wolves, after wolves so badly injured thr...

Feds reject Idaho plan to kill wolves

By JOHN MILLER - ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER BOISE, Idaho -- Federal officials have rejected Idaho's plan to kill up to 43 wolves in north-c...

Wolves get a little too close in Michigan national park

Associated Press HOUGHTON, Mich. (AP) - For campers at Isle Royale National Park, sighting a gray wolf is a rare and thrilling experience. A...

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