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By Susan Montoya Bryan The Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE>> Northern New Mexico or bust — that seems to be the case for at least one Mexican gray wolf that is intent on wandering beyond the boundaries set for managing the rarest subspecies of gray wolf in North America. Federal and state wild...

             By Elise Schmelzer This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Colorado wildlife officials have a 261-page wolf management plan, a voter-mandated Dec. 31 deadline to bring the canine to the state and an area designated for their release. But they don’t have any wo...

  Colorado cements plan to reintroduce gray wolves but a snag lingers The Denver Post PUBLISHED: May 3, 2023 at 2:05 p.m. | UPDATED: May 3, 2023 at 4:46 p.m. Colorado’s plan to capture and release dozens of wolves into the Western Slope’s wilderness is now finalized, though the timeline mig...

State officials lost track of North Park pack after collars stopped working By Conrad Swanson This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Three of Colorado’s few gray wolves might have been killed just across the state line in Wyoming, state wildlife officials confirmed. Travis Duncan, a spokesman for Colorado Park...

By Amanda Wight Writers on the Range The story of a Montana woman who recently killed and skinned a domestic dog then proudly posted photos on her social media pages has sparked a flood of public outrage. It should. The woman allegedly mistook the dog for a wolf, saying she was excited to share t...

    By Dylan Anderson Steamboat Pilot & Today A federal court ruling in February relisting gray wolves as an endangered species across much of the United States could complicate Colorado’s wolf reintroduction effort. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service indicated its latest intentio...

U.S, ruling applies only to those outside of northern Rockies By Conrad Swanson The Denver Post Gray wolves once more are on the federal endangered species list, a northern California judge ruled Thursday. The ruling prohibits the hunting and trapping of wolves in states outside the northern Roc...

Who can blame the residents of Walden for feeling nervous – and a little bitter – about the gray wolf who moved into their community in 2019 and had a litter in 2021. So far three cows and two dogs have been killed by the small pack, and the toll on pets and livestock will only get worse as the pac...

  
By Matthew Brown The Associated Press 
BILLINGS, MONT. » Twenty of Yellowstone National Park’s renowned gray wolves roamed from the park and were shot by hunters in recent months — the most killed by hunting in a single season since the predators were reintroduced to the region more t...

    By James Anderson The Associated Press As gray wolves are under pressure from a federal delisting and increased hunting in some Rocky Mountain states, Colorado wildlife officials heard detailed options Thursday for implementing a voter-approved reintroduction of the species west of...

  By Matthew Brown The Associated Press BILLINGS, MONT. » The Biden administration said Wednesday that federal protections may need to be restored for gray wolves in the western U.S. after Republican-backed state laws made it much easier to kill the predators. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ser...