The Wildlife News

December 2011

  • What Good are Wolves?

    Ralph Maughan

    With the arrival of the first wolf in California since the 1920s, no doubt the California Department of Game and Fish is receiving many comments from the public. The quality of this support, opposition and advice probably varies all over the map (the maps in our heads). Norman Bishop, who played a key role as…

  • Wolf OR7 now just ten miles from California border (see update)

    Ralph Maughan

    Update. Famous wolf has now crossed into California. Story. Wolf is now in California. AP After migrating across Oregon, but pausing for about a month south of Crater Lake N. P., wolf OR7 has begun to move southward again. He is now just 10 miles north of the CA border, a very easy day’s walk…

  • At year’s end 25 wolves in Oregon

    Ralph Maughan

    Wolf population grows slowly in Oregon Despite a moderate amount of what is euphemistically called “wolf control” in Oregon this year, the wolf population grew a bit with a count of 25 wolves at year’s end. It was 24 until a few days ago when a new pup (now about 7 months old) was discovered…

  • Update on the Idaho and Montana wolf hunts underway

    Ralph Maughan

    122 killed in Montana; 195 in Idaho- Two more areas in Montana have meet its wolf quota and will close Dec. 29. Areas 101 and 110 in NW Montana will close. In total 122 wolves have been killed in Montana. The Montana statewide quota is 220.  Recently the state game commission extended the wolf hunt…

  • The Federal Status of Wolves in the Midwest and the East: Conflict on the Horizon?

    Jeremy Bruskotter

    In May of this year, the US Fish and Wildlife Service proposed creating a Distinct Population Segment (or “DPS”) of wolves in the Great Lakes Region, and removing wolves in this DPS from federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections (76 Fed. Reg 26086).  The “delisting” of wolves in the Great Lakes was recently discussed in…

  • Lynx from Canada are moving into New Hampshire

    Ralph Maughan

    New Hampshire Fish and Game trying to document them after 4 kittens found– Sightings have been increasing and New Hampshire Fish and Game is fundraising so it will have money to create a conservation plan for lynx. Story. WMUR Television. http://www.wildnh.com/Wildlife/Nongame/support_nongame.htm

  • After 15 years of wolves, Yellowstone reborn

    Ralph Maughan

    Dr. William Ripple and colleague issue report that sees Park ecology improved in almost all ways- Many of the people supporting wolf restoration to Yellowstone Park and the Rocky Mountains did so mostly on the basis of the favorable ecological changes expected, not because they were particularly enchanted with wolves. The article by Drs. Ripple…

  • Grizzly bear, accidental shooting of hunting buddy in North Idaho more complicated than thought

    Ralph Maughan

    Bullet that killed his friend first passed through the grizzly bear- In mid-September there was a week long story about two black bear hunters from Nevada who accidentally shot a grizzly bear almost exactly on the Idaho/Montana border, not far south of British Columbia.  They tracked the bear into thick vegetation and it charged and…

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