JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Environmental groups are objecting to how a federal agency has developed a new management plan for handling conflicts between wolves and livestock producers in Wyoming. Wildlife Services, an agency with the U.S. Agriculture Department’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, completed an environmental planning document last fall that favored its current lethal and nonlethal wolf conflict …
Quantifying Wildness; Tracking Wolves and Elk in the Rockies | Cristina Eisenberg
Twenty years ago, I was a stay-at-home Montana mom living in a place where the large carnivore population (wolves, bears, cougars) outnumbered the human population. Parenting our daughters here required learning new life skills–such as wildlife tracking. Before I could send our kids out to play, I’d go tracking in our yard and woods to see who’d been around. If …
Groups want federal agency to monitor wolves
Five conservation groups on Tuesday asked the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to extend its oversight of wolves in Montana and Idaho that is set to expire in May. The agency removed the two states’ gray wolf populations from the Endangered Species List in 2011 after finding they were sufficiently recovered. The delisting order required the Fish and Wildlife Service …
Facts about Sweden Wolves
Here we give you some basic and interesting facts about Wolves in Sweden. You will have to follow the links here to get to all of them … Quick facts about Wolves in Sweden Scientific name: Canis lupus Type: Mammal Size: Up to 90 cm at shoulder Weight: 35 – 55 kg (male), females on average 10 kg lighter. Scandinavian Grey Wolves are larger than the …