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FILE - This undated image provided by the US Fish and Wildlife Service shows a gray wolf resting in tall grass. Photo/US Fish & Wildlife/FILE)

Trapper lures wolves from Denali with dead horse, causing outcry

Last updated Tuesday, May 22, 2012 - 10:27am

The two primary breeding females from the best-known wolf pack at Denali National Park -- a pack viewed by tens of thousands of visitors each year -- have been killed, one of them by a trapper operating just outside the boundary of Alaska's premier national park.

The incident has raised an outcry among Alaska conservationists. They're demanding an immediate halt to wolf trapping in what was formerly a buffer zone northeast of the park, an area made famous as the scene of the abandoned school bus in Jon Krakauer's "Into the Wild."

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Idaho hikes hunting bag limits on wolves

Eric Baker Lewiston Tribune

Last updated Friday, March 23, 2012 - 12:44pm

BOISE, Idaho -- The Idaho Fish and Game Commission raised the bag limit on wolves and set spring chinook fishing seasons at its meeting in Boise Thursday.

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Proposal would raise Idaho wolf kill rate

Eric Baker Lewiston Tribune

Last updated Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - 7:00am

BOISE, Idaho -- The Idaho Fish and Game Commission will consider a dramatic increase to the wolf hunting and trapping bag limits for the Clearwater and Panhandle regions of Idaho during its meeting in Boise Thursday.

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Local officials on the lookout for gray wolves

Jeff DeMoss Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, March 15, 2012 - 2:13pm

Officials are looking for what could be a group of gray wolves that was spotted from a helicopter in a mountainous area of north-central Utah recently.

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FILE - This undated image provided by the US Fish and Wildlife Service shows a gray wolf resting in tall grass. After Montana's wolf hunt failed to reduce the number of predators in the state, some groups and individuals are considering the added incentive of paying bounties for each carcass returned. (AP Photo/US Fish & Wildlife/FILE)

Court upholds Congress act that ended wolf protections

Bettina Boxall Los Angeles Times

Last updated Thursday, March 15, 2012 - 10:51am

A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that Congress acted legally when it eliminated Endangered Species Act protections for the Northern Rocky Mountain population of gray wolves and opened the door to wolf hunts.

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Air search turns up tracks, but no wolves in Utah

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, March 11, 2012 - 5:00pm

SPRINGVILLE — Four wolves or wolf-dog hybrids spotted by a coyote-control crew near the north-central Utah town of Springville last week were not located during an air search, but tracks were found, state wildlife officials said.

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FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011 file photo, a female Mexican gray wolf looks to avoid being captured for its annual vaccinations and medical checkup at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge in central New Mexico. Biologists are trying to tap into the biological avoidance response in Mexican gray wolves so they will steer clear of livestock. Cattle depredations throughout southwestern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona have served as an Achilles’ heel for the federal government’s efforts to return the endangered species to its historic range throughout the American Southwest. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

Wandering wolf gives up search for mate in Nev.

Martin Griffith The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, January 30, 2012 - 10:12am

RENO, Nev. -- A young gray wolf's search for a mate apparently won't take him to the northern Nevada desert where the annual Burning Man festival is staged.

The wolf known as OR-7 came within 15 miles of the Nevada line near Susanville, Calif., early last week before he decided to head back west away from the nation's most arid state, said Mark Stopher, spokesman for the California Department of Fish and Game. It had been headed toward the Black Rock Desert where the eclectic art and music festival is held each summer, wildlife officials said.

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Lone wolf crosses into California

Matt Weiser The Sacramento Bee

Last updated Friday, December 30, 2011 - 9:51am

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A gray wolf was confirmed to be roaming California for the first time in 87 years when a young male migrating in search of a mate crossed over the state line from Oregon on Wednesday.

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In this February 2008 photo gray wolves howl at an exhibit area at the International Wolf Center in Ely, Minn. After devoting four decades and tens of millions of dollars to saving gray wolves, the federal government wants to get out of the wolf recovery business and leave it to individual states _ and the wolves themselves _ to determine their future. The Obama administration says it will decide by year's end whether to lift restrictions in the upper Great Lakes and 29 Eastern states. (AP Photo/John Flesher)

US gray wolves rebound but face uncertain future

John Flesher, Matthew Brown The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, December 21, 2011 - 11:08am

ATLANTA, Mich. -- After devoting four decades and tens of millions of dollars to saving the gray wolf, the federal government wants to get out of the wolf-protection business, leaving it to individual states -- and the wolves themselves -- to determine the future of the legendary predator.

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This undated image shows a wolf in Montana. Officials in Idaho are considering deploying federal sharpshooters in helicopters across the north-central part of the state in the coming weeks to kill up to 75 wolves they say are threatening elk near the Montana border. (Photo courtesy of Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks)

Killing of wolves from air in Idaho draws fire

Kim Murphy Los Angeles Times

Last updated Thursday, December 15, 2011 - 12:58am

SEATTLE -- For years, the federal agencies that helped the U.S. wolf population recover under the Endangered Species Act have also quietly killed hundreds of wolves that threaten livestock or prized game.

They've even taken to the skies -- and are considering doing so again.

Officials in Idaho said Wednesday they would consider deploying federal sharpshooters in helicopters across north-central Idaho in the coming weeks to kill up to 75 wolves threatening elk near the Montana border.

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Utah farmers meeting in Layton express concern about wolves

Jasen Asay Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 6:04pm

LAYTON -- Wolves may not be creeping into Davis County farms yet, but the predatory animals are a concern of every Utah farmer.

How to handle the unwanted visitors is just one of the many issues Utah farmers are discussing at this year's Utah Farm Bureau Convention. The convention, which began at the Davis Convention Center on Thursday and continues Friday, gives the farmers the opportunity to discuss issues impacting agriculture and propose solutions to correct them.

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Advocates seek stop to Idaho, Montana wolf hunts

Matthew Brown, Noaki Schwartz The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, November 8, 2011 - 4:38pm

PASADENA, Calif. -- Wildlife advocates appeared in federal court Tuesday seeking an injunction to stop gray wolf hunts already well under way in the Northern Rockies, arguing that Congress overstepped its authority in stripping federal protections from the canines.

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FILE - This undated file image provided by the US Fish and Wildlife Service shows a gray wolf resting in tall grass. Wildlife advocates on Monday, Oct. 17, 2011 asked for an emergency injunction to stop state-sponsored gray wolf hunts that have claimed at least 71 of the animals in the Northern Rockies since late August. (AP Photo/US Fish & Wildlife, File)

Emergency halt to Idaho wolf hunts sought

Kim Murphy Los Angeles Times

Last updated Monday, October 17, 2011 - 5:10pm

Bow-and-arrow hunters already have shot 17 of Montana's once-threatened wolf population since a controversial wolf hunt started at the beginning of September, while 60 wolves have been killed in neighboring Idaho.

Now, big game rifle-hunting season is about to start, bringing thousands of hunters into the mountains at a time when early snowfall will make wolves much easier to spot and chase. Conservation groups went to court Monday seeking an emergency injunction to block the hunts until a federal appeals court can decide whether they're legal to begin with.

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Members of a wolf pack work together to bring down prey in this undated photo.

USU professor publishes study on hunting behaviors

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, September 29, 2011 - 6:09am

LOGAN -- A few hardworking individuals take on the most troublesome tasks while the rest of the group waits around to enjoy the benefits.

Yes, we could be talking about your family or your office co-workers.

But, no, we are talking about wolf packs attacking large prey in the wild.

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Wolf sightings more common in Northwest

Eric Barker Lewiston Tribune

Last updated Saturday, September 3, 2011 - 8:04am

Wolf sightings in the Blue Mountains are becoming more frequent this summer, but wildlife officials for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife have yet to document firm evidence of a pack forming in the southeastern corner of the state.

Paul Wik, district biologist for the department at Clarkston, said the canyons and timbered ridges southeast of Dayton have been a hot spot for wolf reports this year. Some hunters have even captured images of wolves with trail cameras, he said.

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