Yellowstone Wolves
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Jim Halfpenny puts together all his past wolf charts, making a valuable insider’s wolf guide- In 1996 Dr. James Halfpenny and Diann Thompson wrote Discovering Yellowstone Wolves. It described the original wolves brought from Canada and released in Yellowstone National Park. The wolves’ first travels and adventures were chronicled. Discovering Yellowstone Wolves was a must…
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Proposed new hunting rules would allow unlimited wolf killing right up to YNP boundary- Public comment could change this- Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks doesn’t think they killed enough wolves in the last hunt. As a result they are proposing hunting rules like Idaho had last year and more — no quotas, electronic wolf calls,…
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If the story as told in today’s Billings Gazette is accurate, it is amazing what a little fear of wolves will cause a person to do. A single bark from a wolf is a sound that means it is surprised — startled. As expert wolf trapper and handler Carter Niemeyer tells it (Niemeyer has crawled…
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Wolf from Park’s most remote pack ends up near Pine Ridge, South Dakota- The third wolf from the Yellowstone Park area over the years to disperse all the way to South Dakota has been found dead. The big male wolf was hit by an auto along U.S. Highway 18. Over the last decade two other…
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By © Kathie Lynch. March 16, 2012 With eligible wolf bachelors and bachelorettes looking for love (and one alpha male caught in the act of roaming!), the February breeding season was a howling success in Yellowstone’s Northern Range. During the last half of February, watchers observed 13 ties (matings) involving wolves from the Blacktail Plateau,…
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Wolf watching in Yellowstone over the winter holidays far surpassed my expectations. In fact, it turned out to be some of the best ever, at least in terms of numbers. The fact that the Mollie’s pack of 19 wolves unexpectedly turned up in the Northern Range definitely helped! Mollie’s pack is named after Mollie Beattie,…
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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…
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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…