Rare gray wolf spotted wandering in Oregon Cascades | Reuters

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(Reuters) – A rare gray wolf has been spotted in the southwest Oregon Cascade Mountains, in a sign that recovering populations of the animal are spreading west more quickly than biologists had expected, U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials said on Wednesday. Little is known about the wolf, whose blurry image was captured by a trail camera earlier this month, said …

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New bill would remove wolves from endangered species list – WAOW – Newsline 9, Wausau News, Weather, Sports

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Reid Ribble obviously is in the cattlemens hip pocket…. MADISON (WKOW) — A U.S. Congressman from our state is circulating a bill that would remove wolves from the endangered species list. Republican Reid Ribble is leading the effort. His bill would take wolves from Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan and Wyoming off the endangered species list, making it legal to hunt and trap them. A …

Melanie Weberg: ‘Enough is enough’ on failure to protect wolves : Ct

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Dear Editor: “Would state management endanger wolves?” Three days following the relisting of Great Lakes wolves, one of Wisconsin’s wolf recovery biologists, Richard Thiel, answered, “The jury is out.” The following examples of mismanagement by Wisconsin may have something to do with that: 17 wolf packs gone, 700+ wolves killed in trophy hunts, 170+ killed at the behest of livestock …