ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – Wildlife managers are investigating the death of an endangered Mexican gray wolf found last month in New Mexico. Officials with the wolf recovery team say they are waiting for the results of genetics testing to determine the pack from which the animal came. They didn’t provide any details about how the uncollared animal might have …
Montezuma County opposes plan to bring wolves to Colorado
Typical Old West Mentality exhibited here in Montezuma County. The Montezuma County Board of County Commissioners has passed a resolution opposing any plan to reintroduce wolves into Colorado. The resolution claims wolves would threaten livestock, big game hunting and household pets. It points out that efforts to reintroduce the gray wolf in the northern Rocky Mountains have met recovery goals, …
Michigan DNR now-discredited justification for killing the Ontonagon wolves in 2016
ONTONAGON — Bouncing along a sodden farm pasture, Brad Johnson stopped his state vehicle when he came upon the newborn calf, or what remained of it. The veteran wildlife handler had been to this patch of farmland in the western Upper Peninsula several times the previous fall, when a dozen calves from the Dykstra beef ranch were reported missing. Gray …
Humans and their Wildlife Program sterilizing Deer Didnt Work
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – Coyote? Wolf? Someone’s wandering pet? The answer could be crucial for all of Staten Island. There’s a video making the rounds showing some kind of animal dragging a deer carcass off the road. The footage looks to have been shot in Travis, perhaps on the fringes of Freshkills Park. The nighttime video, shot from inside an idling …