tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19179143289817118542024-02-21T05:14:15.135-08:00Canis lupus 101Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6706125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917914328981711854.post-55603517530720914782017-08-03T15:58:00.003-07:002017-08-03T15:58:31.710-07:00 ODFW moves to lethal take for Harl Butte wolves to limit further livestock losses<strong>August 3, 2017</strong><br />
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<strong><em>Department denies request for complete removal of pack; takes incremental approach to disrupt pack behavior </em></strong><br />
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<strong>SALEM, Ore.—</strong>ODFW wildlife managers intend to remove some of the adult wolves in northeast Oregon’s Harl Butte pack to limit further livestock losses as non-lethal measures and hazing have not been successful in limiting wolf depredations.<br />
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On July 28, ODFW received a lethal removal request from several affected livestock producers from a local grazing association after two depredations were confirmed in a five-day period. They asked that the entire Harl Butte pack be removed due to chronic livestock depredation. ODFW has decided to deny the request and will take an incremental approach instead, removing two members of the pack and then evaluating the situation. “In this chronic situation, lethal control measures are warranted,” said Roblyn Brown, ODFW Acting Wolf Coordinator. “We will use incremental removal to give the remaining wolves the opportunity to change their behavior or move out of the area.”<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917914328981711854.post-11751622408007273462017-05-23T16:03:00.001-07:002017-05-23T16:03:33.366-07:00Wolf OR42 found dead in northeast Oregon<strong>May 23, 2017</strong><br />
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In early May, ODFW recovered a dead wolf in
Wallowa County. The wolf was OR42 and was believed to be the breeding
female of the Chesnimnus Pack. A preliminary forensic examination did
not identify a cause of death and no foul play is suspected at this
time. However, it is still under investigation and additional
laboratory tests are being conducted. Two collared subadult wolves
remain within the pack and ODFW continues to monitor the situation.<br />
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PHOENIX — The Arizona Game and Fish Department is assessing potential impacts to Arizona’s endangered and threatened wildlife recovery program, following a 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that lifts a preliminary injunction on releasing Mexican wolves in New Mexico.</div>
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“The Arizona Game and Fish Commission and Department are evaluating the potential ramifications of the Appellate Court’s decision for Arizona’s wolf recovery program,” said Jim deVos, AZGFD assistant director for Wildlife Management. “Our agency remains committed to working with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and our other partners to ensure Arizona has a voice in providing direction for the program, based on sound science and boots-on-the-ground research.”</div>
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The case now returns to U.S. District Court for a decision on whether New Mexico can require the USFWS to obtain state permits before releasing wolves.</div>
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There were a minimum of 113 wolves in the wild in Arizona and New Mexico in 2016, according to a recent survey by the Mexican Wolf Interagency Field Team. The survey found that there were 63 wolves in Arizona and 50 in New Mexico.</div>
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In 2015, there were an estimated 97 wolves were counted in the wild between both states.</div>
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(MWEPA) in Arizona, including the Fort Apache Indian Reservation (FAIR),
San Carlos Apache Reservation (SCAR), and New Mexico. Additional
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USDA-Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services
(USDA-APHIS WS), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the White
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To view semi-monthly wolf telemetry flight location information please visit <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://email.robly.com/wf/click?upn%3DuQJyjcRp6GjIXWphp9I0XXij4bGnDh6KY0QNbWlFbc8V9Obc0zUNDW23vrCm0o6ntjgzQO1lc5oj-2BaU7lS-2FFk-2FrNrOSHz0WN1nCjgqq0pT6AdUoeKzHNfVmFM1OmSFChHht4TG6EoNVaJWqsltEmTg-3D-3D_J6J3UYrZzzHVKtBIXtOYtlznuIllCGAP18TuLkIEG2337nMDw5vFQ15p86Fl6RdVQoa9LNZr1Xb0s2VxjbkmPOA4K-2B7-2Fh2PmFslbjXadhaDXB3k-2Bwe94U6qGJ6aj0MZRw-2B3a-2B2gqqrh31FKtMhfl6kC0OQOwMCdnlRaVymHZAgPeGnXG-2BSCDZQqtVMW059VxoPmUCzpe5C29RwkA1StqsRq-2BbOcMWi25IgF3BZfh9Ji2PJvnZR6QMb5s0-2B9TeQxkoYKauJMEYjfYWbE9AxgvzOPCTUvPMgQpat3Hp79z3R4OtJaYESNBa2zq6MQsNXnXlLZMWtd2ThsxpspTCdmm4pP01UW5VqJ-2BKt9WXTeB8HgCJsmES-2BrbqkToiMcbYh5Aa-2FCaPqBgNcGz0EUs7AXAfYuKzl-2FM-2BkG2-2BbwX35N0NQkbwWNAeTKmX13Ufk7XkJzyEcmt9evi9SP5jxTqpg3vIQ-3D-3D&source=gmail&ust=1492898535594000&usg=AFQjCNHd1ZhJO7KO4zYr0SxDPuts1kd1dw" href="http://email.robly.com/wf/click?upn=uQJyjcRp6GjIXWphp9I0XXij4bGnDh6KY0QNbWlFbc8V9Obc0zUNDW23vrCm0o6ntjgzQO1lc5oj-2BaU7lS-2FFk-2FrNrOSHz0WN1nCjgqq0pT6AdUoeKzHNfVmFM1OmSFChHht4TG6EoNVaJWqsltEmTg-3D-3D_J6J3UYrZzzHVKtBIXtOYtlznuIllCGAP18TuLkIEG2337nMDw5vFQ15p86Fl6RdVQoa9LNZr1Xb0s2VxjbkmPOA4K-2B7-2Fh2PmFslbjXadhaDXB3k-2Bwe94U6qGJ6aj0MZRw-2B3a-2B2gqqrh31FKtMhfl6kC0OQOwMCdnlRaVymHZAgPeGnXG-2BSCDZQqtVMW059VxoPmUCzpe5C29RwkA1StqsRq-2BbOcMWi25IgF3BZfh9Ji2PJvnZR6QMb5s0-2B9TeQxkoYKauJMEYjfYWbE9AxgvzOPCTUvPMgQpat3Hp79z3R4OtJaYESNBa2zq6MQsNXnXlLZMWtd2ThsxpspTCdmm4pP01UW5VqJ-2BKt9WXTeB8HgCJsmES-2BrbqkToiMcbYh5Aa-2FCaPqBgNcGz0EUs7AXAfYuKzl-2FM-2BkG2-2BbwX35N0NQkbwWNAeTKmX13Ufk7XkJzyEcmt9evi9SP5jxTqpg3vIQ-3D-3D" target="_blank">http://bit.do/mexicanwolf</a> or <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://email.robly.com/wf/click?upn%3DgnpZbt3IUEoS7-2BNY3DSAVdyMUO-2FQ38rRjv6rdb0Sq5Y7v4UgAW7Gou53c8xPexpA3whYCnQJmoFuZTeN5X0Qvg-3D-3D_J6J3UYrZzzHVKtBIXtOYtlznuIllCGAP18TuLkIEG2337nMDw5vFQ15p86Fl6RdVQoa9LNZr1Xb0s2VxjbkmPOA4K-2B7-2Fh2PmFslbjXadhaDXB3k-2Bwe94U6qGJ6aj0MZRw-2B3a-2B2gqqrh31FKtMhfl6kC0OQOwMCdnlRaVymHZAgPeGnXG-2BSCDZQqtVMW059VxoPmUCzpe5C29RwkA1StqsRq-2BbOcMWi25IgF3BZfh9Ji2PJvnZR6QMb5s0-2B9TeQxkoYKauJMEYjfYWbE9AxgvzG-2B2C4uzurlZTRuNuvgNRHnT4hVaLZg9z0q1SbdvWRPjQkuev52RpxbZkFLxN1REi6YNVwa3I8iYq7nV6BG-2B7r-2B-2FXzEuhM600inn4sFmvJ5slTo5IiQi7-2BL7LagBQxPq-2BgtBkaLrb19mr9x-2F2ledxjsqrpZpUS2vehCUAJnlHaYcsqxOeTDLEhqvP5-2FbIf15zQ-3D-3D&source=gmail&ust=1492898535595000&usg=AFQjCNGH-ycdzVmm4Ldw2VmNJ5G85XI08w" href="http://email.robly.com/wf/click?upn=gnpZbt3IUEoS7-2BNY3DSAVdyMUO-2FQ38rRjv6rdb0Sq5Y7v4UgAW7Gou53c8xPexpA3whYCnQJmoFuZTeN5X0Qvg-3D-3D_J6J3UYrZzzHVKtBIXtOYtlznuIllCGAP18TuLkIEG2337nMDw5vFQ15p86Fl6RdVQoa9LNZr1Xb0s2VxjbkmPOA4K-2B7-2Fh2PmFslbjXadhaDXB3k-2Bwe94U6qGJ6aj0MZRw-2B3a-2B2gqqrh31FKtMhfl6kC0OQOwMCdnlRaVymHZAgPeGnXG-2BSCDZQqtVMW059VxoPmUCzpe5C29RwkA1StqsRq-2BbOcMWi25IgF3BZfh9Ji2PJvnZR6QMb5s0-2B9TeQxkoYKauJMEYjfYWbE9AxgvzG-2B2C4uzurlZTRuNuvgNRHnT4hVaLZg9z0q1SbdvWRPjQkuev52RpxbZkFLxN1REi6YNVwa3I8iYq7nV6BG-2B7r-2B-2FXzEuhM600inn4sFmvJ5slTo5IiQi7-2BL7LagBQxPq-2BgtBkaLrb19mr9x-2F2ledxjsqrpZpUS2vehCUAJnlHaYcsqxOeTDLEhqvP5-2FbIf15zQ-3D-3D" target="_blank">www.fws.gov/southwest/es/<wbr></wbr>mexicanwolf/RWL.cfm</a>. </div>
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Please report any wolf sightings or suspected livestock depredations to: the Alpine wolf office <a href="tel:%28928%29%20339-4329" target="_blank" value="+19283394329">(928) 339-4329</a>, Pinetop wolf office <a href="tel:%28928%29%20532-2391" target="_blank" value="+19285322391">(928-532-2391</a>) or toll free at <a href="tel:%28888%29%20459-9653" target="_blank" value="+18884599653">(888) 459-9653</a>. To report incidents of take or harassment of wolves, please call the AGFD 24-hour dispatch (Operation Game Thief) at <a href="tel:%28800%29%20352-0700" target="_blank" value="+18003520700">(800) 352-0700</a>.</div>
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service posted the 2017 Mexican Wolf
Initial Release and Translocation Plan (Plan) on the Mexican Wolf
Recovery Program Website and requested comments for 20 days. The USFWS
provided all comments received in applications to New Mexico Department
of Game and Fish for importation and release permits consistent with the
Plan. </div>
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The USFWS hosted the Canid and Hyaneid Taxon Advisory Group meeting
in Albuquerque March 27 and 28, 2017. This meeting was part of the
larger Association of Zoos and Aquarium's mid-year meeting hosted by the
Albuquerque Biological Park. </div>
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<br />The Division of Genomic Resources (DGR) of the Museum of
Southwestern Biology at the University of New Mexico serves as the
repository for Mexican wolf specimens including carcasses, pelts, and
blood. On March 30, 2017, DGR celebrated migrating from maintaining
specimens in -80<sup>o</sup>C freezers to new, more secure cryogenic nitrogen-vapor (-190<sup>o</sup>C). </div>
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<br /><strong>Numbering System:</strong> Mexican wolves are given an
identification number recorded in an official studbook that tracks their
history. Capital letters (M = Male, F = Female) preceding the number
indicate adult animals 24 months or older. Lower case letters (m = male,
f = female) indicate wolves younger than 24 months or pups. The capital
letter “A” preceding the letter and number indicate breeding wolves.</div>
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<strong>Definitions:</strong> A “wolf pack” is defined as two or more
wolves that maintain an established territory. In the event that one of
the two alpha (dominant) wolves dies, the remaining alpha wolf,
regardless of pack size, retains the pack status. The packs referenced
in this update contain at least one wolf with a radio telemetry collar
attached to it. Studbook numbers listed in the monthly update denote
wolves with functioning radio collars. The Interagency Field Team (IFT)
recognizes that wolves without radio telemetry collars may also form
packs. If the IFT confirms that wolves are associating with each other
and are resident within the same home range, they will be referenced as a
pack. </div>
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<u><span class="m_-411335867722714346span_font" style="font-size: 18px;"><span class="m_-411335867722714346span_font_wrapper"><strong>CURRENT POPULATION STATUS</strong></span></span></u></div>
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The IFT completed the annual year-end population survey which
started in November 2016 and concluded with helicopter count and capture
operations conducted in late January through early February 2017. The
IFT documented a minimum of 113 Mexican wolves in the wild in Arizona
and New Mexico at the end of 2016. At the end of March, there were 61
wolves with functioning radio collars that the IFT was actively
monitoring. Wolves with functioning radio collars are listed by studbook
number in the pack updates below.</div>
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Annual surveys are conducted in the winter as this is when the
population experiences the least amount of natural fluctuation (i.e. in
the spring the population increases dramatically with the birth of new
pups and declines throughout the summer and fall as mortality is
particularly high on young pups). Thus, the IFT summarizes the total
number of wolves in the winter at a fairly static or consistent time of
year. This allows for comparable year-to-year trends at a time of year
that accounts for most mortality and survival of young pups.</div>
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<span class="m_-411335867722714346span_font" style="font-size: 18px;"><span class="m_-411335867722714346span_font_wrapper"><strong>IN ARIZONA:</strong></span></span></div>
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<strong>Bear Wallow Pack (collared AM1338 and AF1335)</strong><br />In
March, the Bear Wallow Pack was located within their traditional
territory in the east central portion of the Apache-Sitgreaves National
Forest (ASNF). </div>
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<strong>Bluestem Pack (collared M1382, F1488, fp1562, fp1563 and mp1574)</strong><br />In
March, the Bluestem Pack continued to use their traditional territory
in the east central portion of the ASNF. F1488 continued to travel
separate from the Bluestem Pack with another wolf near Alpine. During
March, M1382 continued to be documented traveling with AF1339 of the
Panther Creek Pack. Genetic analysis from the male pup initially thought
to be Panther Creek mp148X revealed that it was a Bluestem pup and has
been assigned the studbook number mp1574. </div>
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<strong>Elk Horn Pack (collared AF1294, mp1471, mp1474 and fp1473) </strong><br />In
March, the Elk Horn Pack was located within their traditional territory
in the north eastern portion of the ASNF. The female pup assigned the
temporary studbook number, fp147X, was identified as fp1473 through
genetic analysis. This confirmed that the wolf was a wild born of the
Elk Horn Pack and not a cross-fostered pup from 2016. </div>
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<strong>Frieborn Pack (collared F1443 and m1447)</strong><br />In March,
F1443 and m1447 received pack status and were named the Frieborn Pack.
They have been holding a territory in the east central portion of the
ASNF in Arizona and into New Mexico. </div>
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<strong>Hawks Nest Pack (collared AM1038) </strong><br />The Hawks Nest
Pack consists of one collared wolf, AM1038. AM1038 previously made wide
dispersal movements within the north central portion of the ASNF, but
during March was consistently located in the northern portion of the
ASNF in the territory of the Diamond Pack. By the end of March, AM1038
was documented traveling primarily with f1557 of the Diamond Pack.<br /> <br /><strong>Hoodoo Pack (collared AM1290, AF1333, m1441, fp1550 and f1567)</strong><br />In
March, the Hoodoo Pack was located within their traditional territory
in the north central portion of the ASNF. Sub-adult wolves m1441 and
f1567 continued to travel together and apart from the Hoodoo Pack. The
IFT concluded the prey carcass investigations that began in February
looking at the kill rates of both the Hoodoo Pack and the new pair:
m1441 and f1567. In March, fp1549 was located dead in Arizona. The
incident is under investigation.</div>
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<strong>Maverick Pack (collared AF1291)</strong><br />In March, the
Maverick Pack was located within their traditional territory both on the
FAIR and east central portion of the ASNF. </div>
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<strong>Panther Creek Pack (collared AF1339, mp1483, fp1484 and mp1486)</strong><br />In
March, the Panther Creek Pack was located in the east central portion
of the ASNF. Bluestem M1382 continued to be located traveling with
AF1339. Pups mp1483, fp1484, and mp1486 have been traveling separately
from the rest of the pack. Male pup 1486 has been documented traveling
in the Gila National Forest (GNF) in New Mexico. Male pup 1483 was
documented traveling between Arizona and New Mexico. The male pup
assigned the temporary studbook number, mp148X, was identified through
genetic analysis as a Bluestem animal, and has been given a new studbook
number of mp1574.</div>
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<strong>Diamond Pack (collared f1557, mp1559, fp1560, fp1570, mp1571 and mp1572)</strong><br />In
March, the Diamond Pack was located in the northern portion of the ASNF
and on state lands north of the ASNF. Near the beginning of the month,
mp1572 was located lame and removed for veterinary care. Male pup 1572
has tested negative for diseases and has been transferred to the
Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico where it continues to
receive rehabilitative care. Near the end of March, AM1038 of the Hawks
Nest Pack and f1557 were documented traveling together and apart from
the Diamond Pack.</div>
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<strong>Tsay-O-Ah Pack (collared AM1343 and AF1283)</strong><br />In March, the Tsay-o-Ah Pack was located within their traditional territory on the FAIR.</div>
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<strong>Baldy Pack (collared M1347 and f1445)</strong><br />The Baldy Pack was not located during the month of March.</div>
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<strong>Iron Creek Pack (collared AM1240, AF1278 and mp1556)</strong><br />During
March, the Iron Creek Pack continued to utilize their territory in the
northern portion of the Gila Wilderness and the southern portion of the
Gila National Forest (GNF). </div>
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<strong>Lava Pack (collared F1405 and AM1285)</strong><br />During March, the Lava Pack was located within their traditional territory in the south eastern portion of the GNF.</div>
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<strong>Leopold Pack (collared AM1293, AF1346 and mp1561)</strong><br />During March, the IFT documented the Leopold Pack within their territory in the northern portion of the Gila Wilderness. </div>
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<strong>Luna Pack (collared AM1158 and AF1487)</strong><br />During March,
the Luna Pack remained in their traditional territory in the north
central portion of the Gila National Forest. The IFT set up a
diversionary food cache to reduce potential for livestock depredations.</div>
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<strong>Mangas Pack (collared M1296 and F1439)</strong><br />During March, the Mangas Pack was located within their territory in the north western portion of the GNF.</div>
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<strong>New Pair (collared F1444 and M1386)</strong><br />During March, F1444 and M1386 were documented traveling together within the west central portions of the GNF. </div>
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<strong>New Pair (collared F1456 and M1354)</strong><br />During March, F1456 and M1354 were documented traveling together within the west central portions of the GNF.</div>
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<strong>Prieto Pack (collared AF1251, M1398 and fp1565)</strong><br />During
March, the Prieto Pack was located within their traditional territory
in the north central portion of the GNF. M1386, m1455, f1456, M1552,
and mp1569 have all displayed dispersal behavior for 3 months and are
now considered single wolves or part of a “new pair”. </div>
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<strong>San Mateo Pack (collared AF1399)</strong><br />During March, the San Mateo Pack continued to utilize their territory in the north central portion of the GNF. </div>
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<strong>Sheepherders Baseball Park (SBP) Pack (collared AM1284 and f1553)</strong><br />During March, the SBP Pack continued to use their traditional territory in the north central portion of the GNF. <br /> <br /><strong>Willow Springs Pack (collared F1397)</strong><br />During
March, the IFT documented the Willow Springs Pack within their
traditional territory in the north central portion of the GNF. </div>
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<strong>Single collared AM1155</strong><br />During March, AM1155 was documented traveling within New Mexico. </div>
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<strong>Single collared m1455</strong><br />During March, m1455 traveled
throughout east-central portions of the GNF and southern portions of the
Cibola National Forest (CNF).</div>
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<strong>Single collared M1552</strong><br />During March, M1552 traveled throughout northeastern portions of the GNF and central portions of the CNF.</div>
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<strong>Single collared mp1569</strong><br />During March, mp1569 traveled throughout northern and central portions of the CNF and other areas west of I-25.</div>
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During March, fp1549 of the Hoodoo Pack was located dead in Arizona. The incident is under investigation.</div>
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During March, mp1573 of the Bluestem Pack was captured by the IFT
for medical evaluation and attention. It died overnight under veterinary
care. Disease testing confirmed mp1573 tested positive for canine
distemper.</div>
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<br /><u><strong><span class="m_-411335867722714346span_font" style="font-size: 18px;"><span class="m_-411335867722714346span_font_wrapper">INCIDENTS</span></span></strong></u> </div>
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<br />During the month of March, there were six confirmed wolf depredations on livestock and no nuisance reports.</div>
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On <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_767571802" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">March 6</span></span>,
Wildlife Services investigated a dead calf in Catron County, NM. The
investigation determined the calf was a confirmed wolf kill.</div>
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On <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_767571803" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">March 18</span></span>,
Wildlife Services investigated a dead calf in Catron County, NM. The
investigation determined the calf was a confirmed wolf kill.</div>
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On March 21, Wildlife Services investigated a dead calf in Catron
County, NM. The investigation determined the calf was a confirmed wolf
kill.</div>
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On March 21, Wildlife Services investigated a dead cow in Catron
County, NM. The investigation determined the cow was killed by coyotes.</div>
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On March 21, Wildlife Services investigated a dead cow in Socorro
County, NM. The investigation determined the cow was a confirmed wolf
kill.</div>
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On March 24, Wildlife Services investigated a dead cow in Socorro
County, NM. The investigation determined the cow had died from natural
causes.</div>
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On March 24, Wildlife Services investigated a dead calf in Apache
County, AZ. The investigation determined the calf had been killed by
dogs.</div>
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On March 25, Wildlife Services investigated seven dead cows in
Cochise County, AZ. The investigations determined one cow was a
confirmed wolf kill, four cows died from natural causes and one cow died
from an unknown cause. One of the seven dead cows was unable to be
investigated due to its deteriorated condition.</div>
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On March 26, female pup 1530, originating from an ongoing
reintroduction effort in Mexico, was captured on private ranch land in
southeastern Arizona by the IFT and relocated to the Sevilleta Wolf
Management Facility in New Mexico, where it is in good health.
Management agencies in the United States and Mexico will determine the
most appropriate long-term management action for this wolf.</div>
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On March 27, Wildlife Services investigated a dead cow in Cochise
County, AZ. The investigation determined the cow died from unknown
cause.</div>
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On March 28, Wildlife Services investigated a dead cow in Catron
County, NM. The investigation determined the cow was a confirmed wolf
kill.</div>
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<br /><u><span class="m_-411335867722714346span_font" style="font-size: 18px;"><span class="m_-411335867722714346span_font_wrapper"><strong>COMMUNICATION AND COORDINATION</strong></span></span></u>
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On <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_767571804" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">March 14</span></span>,
the USFWS met with the Santa Clara Pueblo to discuss the status of the
Mexican Wolf Recovery Program and development of the revised draft
recovery plan.</div>
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On March 29, the USFWS provided a presentation on the Mexican Wolf
Recovery Program to the Inter-tribal, Fish and Wildlife Service
Coordination meeting at Ak-Chin.</div>
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<br /><u><span class="m_-411335867722714346span_font" style="font-size: 18px;"><span class="m_-411335867722714346span_font_wrapper"><strong>PROJECT PERSONNEL</strong></span></span></u>
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There are no project personnel updates for the month of March.</div>
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<br /><span class="m_-411335867722714346span_font" style="font-size: 18px;"><span class="m_-411335867722714346span_font_wrapper"><u><strong>REWARDS OFFERED</strong></u></span></span>
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The USFWS is offering a reward of up to $10,000; the AGFD Operation
Game Thief is offering a reward of up to $1,000; and the NMDGF is
offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to the
conviction of the individual(s) responsible for the shooting deaths of
Mexican wolves. A variety of non-governmental organizations and private
individuals have pledged an additional $46,000 for a total reward amount
of up to $58,000, depending on the information provided.</div>
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Individuals with information they believe may be helpful are urged
to call one of the following agencies: USFWS special agents in Mesa,
Arizona, at <a href="tel:%28480%29%20967-7900" target="_blank" value="+14809677900">(480) 967-7900</a>, in Alpine, Arizona, at <a href="tel:%28928%29%20339-4232" target="_blank" value="+19283394232">(928) 339-4232</a>, or in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at <a href="tel:%28505%29%20346-7828" target="_blank" value="+15053467828">(505) 346-7828</a>; the WMAT at <a href="tel:%28928%29%20338-1023" target="_blank" value="+19283381023">(928) 338-1023</a> or <a href="tel:%28928%29%20338-4385" target="_blank" value="+19283384385">(928) 338-4385</a>; AGFD Operation Game Thief at <a href="tel:%28800%29%20352-0700" target="_blank" value="+18003520700">(800) 352-0700</a>;
or NMDGF Operation Game Thief at (800) 432-4263. Killing a Mexican wolf
is a violation of the Federal Endangered Species Act and can result in
criminal penalties of up to $50,000, and/or not more than one year in
jail, and/or a civil penalty of up to $25,000.</div>
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<a href="http://www.azgfd.gov/">source</a> </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917914328981711854.post-1021691409720502602017-04-11T13:45:00.001-07:002017-04-11T13:45:38.403-07:00ODFW releases its 2016 Annual Wolf Report and Draft of Revised Wolf Management Plan Today<strong>April 11, 2017</strong><br />
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ODFW releases its <a href="http://www.dfw.state.or.us/Wolves/docs/oregon_wolf_program/2016_Annual_Wolf_Report_DRAFT_170406.pdf">2016 Wolf Annual Report</a> and a <a href="http://www.dfw.state.or.us/agency/commission/minutes/17/04_april/Exhibit%20I_Attachment%202_Draft%20Wolf%20Plan.pdf">Draft Revised Wolf Management Plan</a> today.<br />
These documents will be presented at the upcoming Fish and Wildlife Commission meeting on <a href="http://www.dfw.state.or.us/agency/commission/minutes/17/04_april/index.asp">April 21 in Klamath Falls</a>.
The draft Plan will also be presented at a second Commission meeting
on May 19 in at the Embassy Suites Portland Airport. Public comment is
welcome at both meetings.<br />
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The presentation of the updated draft Plan
during the April and May meetings is considered informational only; the
Draft Plan will not be considered for adoption at these meetings. A
date for final consideration and adoption of the Plan has not yet been
set. <br />
Comments on the Draft Plan may be provided to <a href="mailto:odfw.commission@state.or.us">odfw.commission@state.or.us</a> or in-person at the meetings.<br />
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<a href="http://www.dfw.state.or.us/Wolves/wolf_program_updates.asp">source</a><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917914328981711854.post-84712997031811066082016-12-31T15:18:00.006-08:002016-12-31T15:18:55.335-08:00 Reward Increased to $10,000 for Information on Illegal Killing of Endangered Red Wolf<a href="http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/"><img align="top" alt="Center for Biological Diversity" border="0" src="http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/images/cbd-press-header.gif" style="height: auto; max-width: 800px; width: 100%;" width="800" /></a> <br />
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Contact: Brett Hartl, (202) 817-8121, bhartl@biologicaldiversity.org<br />
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<b>Reward Increased to $10,000 for Information on Illegal Killing of Endangered Red Wolf</b><br />
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<i>One of Only 45 Red Wolves Remaining Found Dead on North Carolina Refuge</i><br />
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RALEIGH, <i>N.C.</i>— The Center for Biological Diversity today added $7,500 to the reward for information leading to a conviction or fine in the latest illegal killing of an endangered <a href="http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/mammals/red_wolf/index.html" target="_blank">red wolf</a> in North Carolina. The dead wolf was discovered Dec. 21 on the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, where red wolves are given the greatest amount of protection under the Endangered Species Act.<br />
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has already offered a $2,500 reward in the case.<br />
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“There are only 45 red wolves left in the wild so the deliberate killing of any individual wolf is a terrible blow to the conservation of this amazing species,” said Brett Hartl, government affairs director at the Center. “This deplorable slaughter is a stark reminder of why federal regulators must quickly rejuvenate their stalled efforts to save this precious species before it disappears forever.”<br />
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Although once abundant along the entire coastal plain of the Southeast, red wolves were pushed to the brink of extinction after decades of relentless persecution. After the species was declared endangered in 1973, 17 wild red wolves were captured for captive breeding. Wolf releases began in North Carolina’s Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge in the mid 1980s, but recovery efforts have repeatedly been thwarted by illegal shootings.<br />
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“We’re adding to this reward because red wolves are a critical part of America’s heritage, and we shouldn’t let a few killers deny future generations their opportunity to see these animals in the wild,” said Hartl.<br />
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The best available science demonstrates that red wolves can be recovered if these illegal killings end. A 2014 <a href="http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/mammals/pdfs/WMI-Red-Wolf-Review-11142014.pdf">report</a> by the Wildlife Management Institute concluded that if red wolves are going to recover, two additional populations need to be established in the wild, and additional resources need to be invested to build local support for their recovery. The Center for Biological Diversity submitted an emergency <a href="http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/mammals/red_wolf/pdfs/Emergency_Petition_to_Protect_the_Red_Wolf_5_19_2016.pdf">petition</a> in May 2016 to strengthen rules protecting red wolves from illegal shootings and to identify additional reintroduction sites where red wolves can thrive.<br />
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Anyone with information about the killing should contact North Carolina Wildlife Officer Frank Simms at (252) 216-7504 or Special Agent Jason Keith at (919) 856-4520, ext. 34.<br />
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<i>The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, nonprofit conservation organization with more than 1.1 million members and online activists dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild places.</i></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917914328981711854.post-81816815628714010522016-12-18T14:56:00.003-08:002016-12-18T14:56:51.005-08:00Mexican Wolf Reintroduction Project Monthly Update - November 1-30, 2016<br />
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<span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In November, the Bluestem Pack continued to use their traditional territory in the east central portion of the ASNF. They periodically used a diversionary food cache established by the IFT to prevent potential depredation issues in the area. Two female pups (fp1562 and fp1563) were captured, collared and released in early November. Some wolves from the Bluestem Pack displayed dispersal behavior during the month. AF1042 was documented in New Mexico traveling in the vicinity of the Sheepherders Baseball Park Pack. F1433 was documented traveling with m1447, of the Diamond Pack, in New Mexico near the Arizona border.</span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Elk Horn Pack (collared AF1294, AM1342, mp1474 and mp1471)</span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In November, the Elk Horn Pack was located within their traditional territory in the north eastern portion of the ASNF. The IFT documented rendezvous behavior by this pack during the month of November. A minimum of two uncollared pups were documented traveling with the Elk Horn pack this month.</span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Hawks Nest Pack (collared AM1038)</span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In November, the Hawks Nest Pack was mostly located within their traditional territory in the north central portion of the ASNF. The IFT documented dispersal movements by AM1038. </span></span></span> </div>
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<span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In November, the Hoodoo Pack remained in the north central portion of the ASNF. The IFT documented rendezvous behavior by the Hoodoo Pack this month. A minimum of three uncollared pups were documented traveling with the Hoodoo Pack this month.</span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Maverick Pack (collared AF1291)</span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In November, the Maverick Pack was located within their traditional territory both on the FAIR and ASNF. </span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Panther Creek Pack (collared AF1339, AM1394, mp1483, fp1484, and mp1486)</span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In November, the Panther Creek Pack was located in the east central portion of the ASNF. The Panther Creek Pack continued to show rendezvousing behavior during the month of November. A female pup, fp1485, was located dead in November and the incident is under investigation.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper">In November, the Diamond Pack was located within their traditional territory in the eastern portion of the FAIR and the northern portion of the ASNF. </span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper">Tsay-O-Ah Pack (collared AM1343 and AF1283)</span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper">In November, the Tsay-o-Ah Pack was located within their traditional territory in the eastern portion of the FAIR.</span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper">Baldy Pack (collared M1347 and f1445)</span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper">In November, the Baldy Pack was located in the eastern portion of the FAIR and northern portion of the ASNF.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">During November, the IFT located this pack within its traditional territory in the west central portion of the Gila National Forest (GNF). </span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Iron Creek Pack (collared AM1240, AF1278 and mp1556)</span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">During November, the Iron Creek Pack continued to utilize their territory in the northern portion of the Gila Wilderness and the southern portion of the GNF. </span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Lava Pack (collared F1405)</span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">During November, the IFT documented F1405 (formerly of the Buckalou Pack) traveling with M1285 of the Lava Pack. The IFT trapped and re-collared F1405 and this pack is traveling in the south eastern portion of the GNF.</span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Luna Pack (collared AF1487 and mp1554)</span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">During November, the Luna Pack remained in their traditional territory in the north central portion of the GNF. </span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Mangas Pack (collared M1296 and F1439)</span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">During November, the Mangas Pack was located within their territory in north western portions of the GNF in New Mexico. </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>Prieto Pack (collared M1386, m1455, f1456, M1552, f1553 and fp1565)</strong></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">During November, the Prieto Pack was located within their traditional territory in the north central portion of the GNF. There has been dispersal behavior documented for M1386, m1455, f1456 and M1552 within the GNF. Sub-adult, f1553, continues to be documented apart from the Prieto Pack and traveling with single male wolf M1398 in the west central portion of the GNF.</span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">San Mateo Pack (collared AF1399)</span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">During November, the IFT documented the San Mateo Pack within their territory in the north central portion of the GNF. </span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Sheepherders Baseball Park (SBP) Pack (collared AM1284)</span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">During November, the SBP Pack continued to use their traditional territory in the north central portion of the GNF. AM1284 was captured, re-collared and released. The IFT has documented the survival of pups with the SBP Pack.</span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Willow Springs Pack (collared F1397)</span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">During November, the IFT documented the Willow Springs Pack within their traditional territory in the north central portion of the GNF. </span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Leopold Pack (collared AM1293 and mp1561)</span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">During November, the IFT documented that AM1293 had formed a pack and had pups. One of these male pups, mp1561, was captured, collared and released in November by the IFT. This is the first documented wolf pack that has formed naturally within the Gila Wilderness in New Mexico.</span></span></span> </div>
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<span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>Single collared AM1155</strong></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">During November, AM1155 was documented traveling within New Mexico.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">During November, M1398 was documented traveling with f1553 of the Prieto Pack in the west central portion of the GNF.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">During November, a female pup, fp1485, of the Panther Creek Pack was located dead in Arizona. The incident is under investigation.</span><br /><br /><u><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>INCIDENTS</strong></span></u></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">On November 28, Wildlife Services investigated a dead calf in Apache County, Arizona. The investigation determined the calf was killed by coyotes. </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">There are no personnel updates for the month of November.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><br /><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper"><u><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>REWARDS OFFERED</strong></span></u></span></span><br /><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_-781784941666727114span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />The USFWS is offering a reward of up to $10,000; the AGFD Operation Game Thief is offering a reward of up to $1,000; and the NMDGF is offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to the conviction of the individual(s) responsible for the shooting deaths of Mexican wolves. A variety of non-governmental organizations and private individuals have pledged an additional $46,000 for a total reward amount of up to $58,000, depending on the information provided.<br /><br />Individuals with information they believe may be helpful are urged to call one of the following agencies: USFWS special agents in Mesa, Arizona, at <a href="tel:%28480%29%20967-7900" target="_blank" value="+14809677900">(480) 967-7900</a>, in Alpine, Arizona, at <a href="tel:%28928%29%20339-4232" target="_blank" value="+19283394232">(928) 339-4232</a>, or in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at <a href="tel:%28505%29%20346-7828" target="_blank" value="+15053467828">(505) 346-7828</a>; the WMAT at <a href="tel:%28928%29%20338-1023" target="_blank" value="+19283381023">(928) 338-1023</a> or <a href="tel:%28928%29%20338-4385" target="_blank" value="+19283384385">(928) 338-4385</a>; AGFD Operation Game Thief at <a href="tel:%28800%29%20352-0700" target="_blank" value="+18003520700">(800) 352-0700</a>; or NMDGF Operation Game Thief at <a href="tel:%28800%29%20432-4263" target="_blank" value="+18004324263">(800) 432-4263</a>. Killing a Mexican wolf is a violation of the Federal Endangered Species Act and can result in criminal penalties of up to $50,000, and/or not more than one year in jail, and/or a civil penalty of up to $25,000.</span></span></span></div>
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“Experts in red wolf ecology, genetics and biology have published significant scientific research since the plan was created over a quarter-century ago,” said Tara Zuardo, an AWI wildlife attorney. “An amended recovery plan based on the best available science is vital to ensure that red wolves survive in the wild.”<br />
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The petition includes information about threats to the red wolf and provides strategies to address those threats, including reducing lethal and nonlethal removal of wolves from the wild; resuming the use of the “placeholder program,” which involved releasing sterilized coyotes to hold territories until red wolves can replace them; resuming the use of the cross-pup fostering program as a way to increase the genetic diversity of the species; identification of additional reintroduction sites; and increasing outreach and education to garner support for wolves and stop poaching.<br />
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“The red wolf is teetering on the brink of extinction, but it can be saved by putting in place an aggressive recovery plan,” said Collette Adkins, a biologist and senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. “A new recovery plan would serve as a road map, outlining all the necessary steps to ensure that future generations have a chance to see these beautiful wolves in the wild.”<br />
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In September the Fish and Wildlife Service <a href="https://www.biologicaldiversity.or/news/press_releases/2016/red-wolf-09-12-2016.html" target="_blank">announced</a> plans to confine red wolf recovery to just federal lands in Dare County, while also identifying new sites for wolf introductions and doubling the number of captive-breeding pairs. The agency’s controversial proposal to restrict the recovery area in North Carolina has been met with stark criticism. Last week 30 prominent experts in wolf conservation sent a <a href="http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2016/red-wolf-11-30-2016.html" target="_blank">letter</a> expressing their concerns. And on Wednesday Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and eight key Democratic leaders sent a <a href="http://democrats-naturalresources.house.gov/imo/media/doc/Dec.%207%20Letter%20to%20Secretary%20Jewell%20on%20Maintaining%20Red%20Wolf%20Recovery%20Efforts.pdf">letter</a> urging Interior Secretary Sally Jewell to revive the red wolf recovery program.<br />
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“This petition represents our proactive vision for red wolf recovery,” said Ben Prater, Southeast program director for Defenders of Wildlife. “The red wolf is a part of our national wildlife heritage, just like the bald eagle or grizzly bear. We’re calling on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to honor that legacy and bring the red wolf back from the brink of extinction. Conservation advocates nationwide agree we have the ability and the obligation to recover this iconic species.”<br />
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Petitioners request a prompt response to their petition confirming that the Service has begun work on an updated plan for the red wolf, a timeline for completing the recovery planning process, and implementation of recovery strategies necessary for the species.<br />
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The petitioners include the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), the Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife, Endangered Species Coalition, South Florida Wildlands Association, WildEarth Guardians and the Wolf Conservation Center.<br />
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One of the most disturbing and sobering examples of the
misuse of political power comes out of Michigan – and it has nothing to
do with the astonishingly close presidential race of 2016. It concerns
the unusual, <a data-stamped="true" href="http://blog.humanesociety.org/wayne/2015/07/the-propaganda-machine-and-the-backfire-effect.html?credit=blog_post_120616_id8623">years-long obsession of a few lawmakers</a>
who want to clear a path for trophy hunters and commercial trappers to
take the lives of too many of the state’s few hundred wolves.<br />
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Right now, Michigan state senator Tom Casperson – who is completing
the final two years of his second term, after losing a Republican
primary for a U.S. House seat that overlaps with his current district –
is pushing his fourth wolf-hunting bill in the state legislature. Yes,
his fourth bill.<br />
He’s been effective in moving this series of bills, but, at the same time, painfully ineffective.<br />
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In 2014, he engineered the passage of three wolf-hunting bills, each
with slightly different provisions. Each one of them has since been
nullified – two by the voters and, most recently, one by a <a data-stamped="true" href="http://www.humanesociety.org/news/news_briefs/2016/11/michigan-court-rules-2014.html?credit=blog_post_120616_id8623">Michigan appellate court</a>.<br />
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That’s why he’s at it again with SB 1187.<br />
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The problem is, with <a data-stamped="true" href="http://blog.humanesociety.org/wayne/2014/11/wolves-gain-bears-suffer-a-loss.html?credit=blog_post_120616_id8623">two voter referendums</a> in the rearview mirror, he’s working in direct contravention of the will of the state’s voters.<br />
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In 2014, at the urging of The HSUS – which helped to qualify
referendums to challenge Casperson’s bills – voters were emphatic in
rejecting both wolf-hunting measures. By 10 percentage points, voters
rejected Proposal 1, a measure to declare wolves a game species and to
allow a trophy-hunting season. An even larger percent of voters — 64
percent in all — opposed Proposal 2, which sought to give the Natural
Resources Commission the opportunity to establish a hunting season on
wolves. In fact, every single county in the Lower Peninsula (and
Chippewa County in the Upper Peninsula) voted “no” on Proposal 2.<br />
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These were the first two public votes on the issue of wolf hunting in
the nation, and, as a result, Michigan lawmakers are in the enviable
position of being able to gauge with precision how their constituents
feel about the election. If elections are to matter as a reflection of
the public will – and they surely do – it’s clear that the people of
Michigan do not support the trophy hunting and trapping of wolves.<br />
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The third Casperson measure – which, among other provisions, also
provided the authority for the NRC to set a season on wolves – was
struck down by the courts two weeks ago because it contained provisions
entirely separate from<u> </u>the wolf-hunting issue. The Michigan Court
of Appeals rightly found that the measure was a “Trojan Horse” that
cynically and unconstitutionally misled voters by touting unrelated
benefits while “surreptitiously slipping [in]… a reenacting provision to
ensure that regardless of the referenda votes on PA 520 and PA 21,
wolves would be on the game species list.”<br />
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Not only are wolves scarce in number, they are inedible, act as a
firewall against the spread of Chronic Wasting Disease, and serve as a
lure for tourists to come to Isle Royale and to the Upper Peninsula. As
recently underscored by a <a href="http://greatlakesecho.org/2016/06/16/of-wolves-deer-maples-and-wildflowers/" target="_blank">Michigan DNR/University of Notre Dame study</a>,
wolves play a significant role in the Great Lakes ecosystem by reducing
unhealthy densities of white-tailed deer, which in turn protects timber
stocks and agriculture crops by reducing deer overbrowse. And by
controlling deer populations, wolves can also help to mitigate the risk
of car-deer collisions. Thus, wolves can benefit agriculture, public
safety, water quality, and ecosystem health.<br />
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The Michigan Department of Natural Resources already provides the
state’s ranchers with fencing, fladry (rope with flapping flags), and
guard animals to protect livestock from native carnivores, and has
stated that these methods are highly effective. Michigan livestock
owners are also compensated for confirmed or even suspected losses to
wolves. Still, cases of wolves killing livestock in Michigan are
extremely rare, amounting to just 0.0005 percent of livestock deaths in
2015. This percentage is even lower than the U.S. Department of
Agriculture’s nationwide statistics, which put wolves at the very
bottom, at 0.2 percent, of the list of hazards to livestock that
includes respiratory, digestive, and calving problems, weather, disease,
lameness, injury, theft, and even vultures.<br />
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Scientific studies have amply demonstrated that indiscriminate
killing of wolves by hunting is not only ineffective at mitigating
conflicts with livestock, it could even make those few problems worse by
dispersing packs and sending inexperienced juvenile wolves out on their
own<strong>.</strong> On the rare occasion when wolves have been
spotted in populated areas of the Upper Peninsula, it has typically been
the result of humans drawing them into town by feeding deer, wolves’
preferred prey. Even in those instances, the wolves did not threaten or
harm humans. And again, even though wolves in Michigan are currently
protected under the federal ESA, they can still be killed in the event
that they actually pose a threat to human safety. Further, recent
stories of wolf sightings on private property in towns such as Marenisco
have not been substantiated, nor were official reports of those
incidents filed with the Michigan DNR, as is required to maintain
accurate records on any wolf-human conflicts. We should not let
irrational fears or irresponsible human behavior be used to justify the
trophy hunting and trapping of this vital species.<br />
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Senator Casperson had two of his bills overturned by citizens and one
by the courts. He ran for election to federal office and was defeated
in the primary. What part of “no” does he not understand? A <a data-stamped="true" href="http://blog.humanesociety.org/wayne/2016/05/wolf-hunting-increases-poaching-new-study.html?credit=blog_post_120616_id8623">virtual flood of scientific studies </a>in the past few years have made it abundantly clear: there is <em>no justification</em>
for killing wolves simply for trophies, out of hatred, to protect
livestock, or in a misguided attempt to boost prey species for hunters.<br />
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In 2014, along with the wolf referendums, Gov. Rick Snyder was on the
ballot. He won a commanding win over Democrat Mark Schauer. Proposal 2 –
which most closely resembles Casperson’s current bill – got close to
250,000 more “no” votes than Gov. Snyder got “yes” votes in his
convincing win. That immense popular support for wolves should provide
plenty of reason for the governor to send Casperson’s latest bill into
the ash heap.<br />
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<span class="paragraph-0">When the wolf known as 778M was in his heyday atop the Blacktail Pack, competing canines that ventured into his territory in Yellowstone’s Northern Range weren’t likely to be greeted with submission.</span> <span class="paragraph-1">The unusually large alpha male was fiercely defensive and protective.</span><br />
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The size, aggression and smarts led 778M to a long, productive life, in wolf terms. At 9 1/2 years old, 778M was among the oldest known male wolves since the large carnivore species was reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park 21 years ago. Before being shot and killed by a Montana hunter last month, the big alpha was also the last living member of the Druid Peak Pack, which grew to an almost unheard of 37 animals, was witnessed by 100,000 visitors and helped make wolf-watching into big business.<br />
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Wolf 778M’s time in the world famous wolf pack, which ran the show in the Lamar Valley around the turn of the century, was fleeting. Born into the Druid Peak Pack in April 2007 as the grandson of one of the original Albertan transplants, “Big Brown” took off by fall 2008. He split off alongside four brothers, less than two years before the Druid Peak Pack was wiped out by mange.<br />
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Yellowstone Wolf Project Leader Doug Smith’s first interaction with 778M was in 2011, when he sedated, captured and collared the alpha male. At 118 pounds, he had plenty of heft.<br />
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The alpha female was found dead outside Yellowstone National Park in late 2013. Afterward, 778M headed outside the safety of the park as well, joining up with the Slip ’n Slide Pack.<br />
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“Where he moved first was 2, 3 miles over the park line, just outside in the Gallatin National Forest,” Smith said. “Four or five months ago he really took off and went way north, and I didn’t hear about him anymore. The next thing I heard is he got shot.<br />
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In some ways 778M’s demeanor and resilience was reminiscent of his grandfather, 21M, the longtime Druid alpha that McIntyre described as the “all-time greatest heavyweight champion.”<br />
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“When things came along that had the end result of members of his pack being killed, like rival wolves, time after time after time 778M survived that,” McIntyre said.<br />
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“His whole pack died of mange,” Dixon said, “and he lived in Jardine for two hunting seasons prior to getting killed this year. He was fairly habituated, too — people didn’t bother him — so it’s amazing that he stayed alive for so long.”<br />
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“Certainly there is a sadness in the death of 778 after living a long and difficult life,” McIntyre said. “But now that he’s gone, we still have descendants of the Druid wolves.”<br />
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SAN FRANCISCO— The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has released its final <a href="http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/wolves_on_the_west_coast/pdfs/Final_Wolf_Conservation_Plan_5Dec2016.pdf">plan </a>to guide conservation and management of a small population of gray wolves well into the future. One of the strengths of the plan, which was released late Tuesday, is its emphasis on nonlethal methods to deter conflicts with livestock. But it would also seek to reduce wolves’ federal protection status from “endangered” to “threatened” when the population reaches a threshold of only two breeding pairs for two consecutive years — far fewer than what independent scientists say is needed for a secure population.<br />
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In response to public comments on the proposed wolf plan, the agency stepped back from plans to initiate delisting of wolves once their population reached only 50 to 75 wolves. The agency also included in the final plan additional, current, best available scientific literature on key issues such as the vital ecological role of wolves.<br />
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But conservation groups say the final plan should have included specific protections to shield wolves from clearly identifiable threats such as being mistaken for coyotes during coyote-killing contests. And the plan failed to identify key wolf habitat conservation priorities like connectivity corridors crucial to building healthy, sustainable populations — a feature that would benefit not only wolves but other California wildlife as well. The plan also proposes to initiate aggressive management actions, which could include killing wolves, for ungulate population declines “presumed to be influenced by wolf predation” without a scientific assessment to determine if wolves, in fact, are the cause.<br />
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“Because California is only in the early stages of wolf recovery, we need to give these animals a chance to become established in sustainable numbers rather than prematurely rushing to end protections that are vital to their survival,” said Amaroq Weiss, West Coast wolf organizer at the Center for Biological Diversity. “But we support the plan's initial emphasis on restoring wolves to the Golden State and reliance on nonlethal methods to reduce loss of livestock.”<br />
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This month marks the five-year anniversary of the arrival in California of wolf OR-7, the first known wild wolf in the state in 87 years. His arrival launched the development of a state wolf plan with input from a stakeholder group representing conservation, ranching and sports-hunting interests. OR-7 eventually returned to Oregon, where he found a mate and has since sired three sets of pups. In August 2015 state wildlife officials confirmed the establishment of California’s first wolf family in nearly a century: the Shasta pack in Northern California’s Siskiyou County. And just last month, a pair of wolves was confirmed in western Lassen County. DNA-testing of scat collected from the pair shows that the male is a young adult from one of OR-7’s litters, while the female is of unknown origin.<br />
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“The ongoing arrival of wolves in California is cause for celebration and makes the state wolf plan’s provisions all the more important,” stated Kimberly Baker, public land advocate for the Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC). “Wolf recovery will bring the essence of wild back to California and reiterates the need for landscape connectivity.”<br />
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The plan proposes a phased management approach, in which establishment of four wolf packs for two consecutive years will trigger consideration of more aggressive management of conflicts. After establishment of eight wolf packs for two consecutive years, management actions will become even less protective of wolves. Conservation groups say the reduced protections come too quickly under the plan, and call for an ongoing emphasis on time-proven, research-based nonlethal measures to minimize conflicts with livestock.<br />
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“It’s exciting that nonlethal methods of reducing wolf-livestock conflicts are such a foundational element of this plan, because we know they work,” said Damon Nagami, a senior attorney in NRDC’s Land and Wildlife Program. “We want to give these magnificent animals every possible chance to survive and thrive here in California. So we look forward to working with the Department to ensure that happens.”<br />
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The agency received significant public input last year when it released a draft plan for public comment. Changes requested included the need to acknowledge the best available current science on managing conflicts, social tolerance, the importance of protecting wolves from illegal killings, and wolves’ critical ecological role. During the comment period, 19 conservation organizations submitted a <a href="http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/wolves_on_the_west_coast/pdfs/Conservation_Community_CA_Draft_Wolf_Plan_Comments_and_Appendices.pdf">joint comment letter</a> on behalf of 2.9 million California residents highlighting 27 key issues of concern in the draft plan. The vast majority of Californians wants wolves protected and also fully supports the joint efforts of the state, conservation groups, ranchers and hunters to implement nonlethal conflict-prevention measures.<br />
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As the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service’s red wolf recovery program here
marked its 25th anniversary in 2012, it was basking in nationwide
accolades as a groundbreaking conservation success. Just four years
later, it is teetering on the edge of failure, a turn of fate fanned by
politics, mistaken identity and public ill will.
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“There’s something going on, and I can’t figure out why the agency
has been so willing to backtrack,” said Ron Sutherland, a Durham-based
scientist with the Wildlands Network. “The red wolf program in the Fish
and Wildlife Service has basically been drawn and quartered.”<br />
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Sutherland said the agency has not responded to a petition submitted
in July that was signed by 500,000 people in support of wild red wolves,
which are protected under the Endangered Species Act.<br />
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Critics say the program has been a failure from the outset and that
the Fish and Wildlife Service had released wolves on private property
without the written permission of landowners.<br />
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Red wolves had been declared extinct in the wild when four captive
pairs were transferred from Texas to the Alligator River National
Wildlife Refuge in 1987. Through intensive management tactics that
included sneaking captive-bred pups into dens with wild-born pups, the
population grew steadily.<br />
At its height in 2005-07, 130 red wolves roamed the forested recovery
area spanning 1.7 million acres of public and private land in Hyde,
Dare, Tyrrell, Washington and Beaufort counties.<br />
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Today, just 45 wolves remain in the wilds of northeastern North
Carolina, as well as 200 or so in captivity, and Fish and Wildlife has
sharply scaled back the recovery program.<br />
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In September, the agency announced, after a two-year review of the
program, that by 2017 it planned to reduce wolf territory to an area in
the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge and the military bombing
range in Dare County. Wolves outside that range would be removed to
captive populations that reside in numerous zoos.<br />
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“It was disheartening to see how they want to pull the animals back
to almost where they started the program,” said Kim Wheeler, executive
director of the Tyrrell County-based Red Wolf Coalition, a nonprofit
education and advocacy group that started in 1997. “You can only have so
many wolves in so much space. Everybody needs their own room and their
own territory.”<br />
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Red wolf recovery would require changes to “secure” the wild and
captive populations, the agency said. In addition, it acknowledged
questions about whether the wolves’ genetics qualify for them to be
classified under the Endangered Species Act.<br />
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Shortly after the agency’s announcement, U.S. District Judge Terrence
Boyle issued a preliminary injunction that forbade removal of wolves
from private property, unless it can be shown there is a threat to
humans, pets or livestock. Boyle accused the wildlife service of failing
to adequately protect the wolves.<br />
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“What had been happening lately is that individual landowners have
required wolves to be removed from their property because they don’t
like them,” said Jason Rylander, senior attorney for Defenders of
Wildlife, one of the plaintiffs. “They can’t be removed just because
they’re present on the property.”<br />
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An earlier lawsuit ruled on by the same judge led to a ban in 2014 of
nighttime coyote hunting in the recovery area, a practice that
conservation groups blamed for a spike in wolf gunshot deaths.<br />
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The result of the recent injunction is that the wildlife service’s
plan to remove wolves in all but the Dare County and the Alligator River
area will not be allowed, essentially forestalling it.<br />
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The program’s path from bold experiment, to successful innovation, to
despair for its future is perhaps more dramatic, and compressed, than
most accounts of wildlife-conservation efforts.<br />
Twenty years after the first red wolves were released onto Alligator
River lands, more than 100 wolves were inhabitants, and the program was
credited as a model for other successful efforts.<br />
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“That was the prototype wolf-recovery program that gave legs to the
wolf-recovery programs in Yellowstone and the northern Rockies, as well
as for the Mexican wolf, Walter Medvid, executive director of the
Minneapolis-based International Wolf Center, said in a 2007 article in
The Virginian-Pilot.<br />
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Medvid said that top predators such as wolves are good for ecological
stability and help keep prey populations healthy and vigorous.<br />
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Smaller than gray wolves but bigger than coyotes, red wolves weigh
about 55 to 85 pounds and are brown with patches of red behind their
ears. Long ago, they ranged from southern New England to Florida and as
far west as central Missouri and Texas before being gradually hunted to
near-extinction. By the 1970s, fewer than 100 red wolves were believed
to exist on the Gulf Coast.<br />
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An analysis of species characteristics was done by the wildlife
service before 14 wolves were selected to begin a captive-breeding
program. Four pairs were chosen for release in 1987 in Alligator River,
an area with natural boundaries and plenty of prey.<br />
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Sparsely developed, heavily wooded northeastern North Carolina seemed
as if it would be perfect habitat for red wolves, shy creatures not
known for aggression toward humans. But the red wolf preys on deer and
roams private as well as public land. Conservationists may regard the
wolf as an important part of the ecosystem, but to a significant number
of landowners and hunters, the wolf is little more than an interloper
and a competitor. And to the wolf’s misfortune, it looks very similar to
a coyote, which arrived in the region not long after the wolf’s
re-introduction. Shooting wolves is illegal; hunting coyotes is
permitted.<br />
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Wolves will mate with coyotes if a mate is killed, exacerbating a
threat to the species: hybridization. But the wildlife service’s
recovery team developed an effective tactic that used a sterilized
coyote to serve as a “placeholder” in keeping other coyotes out of its
territory. Before it was discontinued, the measure seemed to curtail the
problem of diluting the red wolf genes with those of coyotes. The
controversial issue of whether the red wolf is a separate species is
still being debated by the wildlife service.<br />
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Another method the recovery team devised is putting similarly aged
captive-bred pups in with other pups in a wild den, after sprinkling
them with a little urine from the wild pups. To the team’s joy, the
mothers accepted the pups as their own, helping to ensure the genetic
viability of the species.<br />
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But from the beginning, gunshot mortalities had been a growing issue
with red wolf management. By 2003, 28 wolves had been shot. Between 2004
and 2011, another 52 wolves had been shot, despite possible penalties
of up to a year in prison and a fine of $100,000. When coyote hunting
was expanded in 2012 to nighttime hours, shooting deaths of wolves
increased again.<br />
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But when the judge later restricted coyote hunting, the political
winds seem to turn in a fury toward the wolves. Pages filled with nasty
comments about the wolves started cropping up on Internet hunting
forums. Legislators started hearing demands from constituents to do
something about the wolves.<br />
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In January 2015, the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission
adopted a resolution asking the wildlife service to end the red wolf
project, and another resolution asking the wildlife service to remove
all “unauthorized releases” of wolves and their offspring from private
land.<br />
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U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., is among those who have called for eliminating the red wolf recovery program.<br />
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Tillis, speaking in September at a House Committee on Natural
Resources hearing, said the program had failed to meet population
recovery goals while negatively affecting North Carolina landowners and
the populations of several other native species. He said 514 private
landowners and farmers had sent individual requests to the Fish and
Wildlife Service to not allow red wolves on their land.<br />
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“Before we do anything more in North Carolina, I think it makes the
most sense to shut the program down to figure out how to do it right and
build some credibility with the landowners,” Tillis said during the
hearing. “There is a less than respectful history of dialogue between
folks in North Carolina and the Fish and Wildlife Service. This is going
to be an issue my office will be focused on for as long as I’m a U.S.
senator.”<br />
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Wheeler, of the Red Wolf Coalition, said the issue was more political
than she ever thought it would be. “Certainly, our red wolves are
getting caught in that political mess,” she said.<br />
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Madrid’s regional government is to double its compensation fund for
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Wolves, hunted to the brink of extinction over the past seven decades, <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/04/wolf-pack-howls-from-steppe-to-madrid">have begun to reappear in the region</a> in recent years. </div>
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Their return has been most keenly noticed by farmers, whose sheep,
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wolves thought to roam the autonomous community of Madrid. The region,
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The regional government has announced it will raise its compensation
budget from €60,000 (£51,000) this year to €120,000 in 2017. Claims for
the past 12 months already total almost €90,000. Compensation payments
are up to €500 per sheep or goat and €1,000 per cow or horse.</div>
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it also needs to protect farmers’ interests,” said a government
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“We’re paying farmers for the loss or injury of their animals but
we’re also talking to farmers and ecologists about things like electric
fences, using mastiffs to protect livestock and restoring pens to make
animals less vulnerable to attack.”</div>
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“The number of attacks has risen considerably because there are
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WASILLA — The gray wolf (Canis lupus) of Alaska runs with a bigger pack than its brethren in the lower 48. That’s because it’s got a tougher prey to tangle with, namely, the Alaska moose, an animal that can grow up to nearly 7 feet tall at the shoulder and weigh up to nearly one and a half tons.<br />
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Shannon Barber-Meyer, a U.S. Geological Survey wildlife biologist who specializes in research on American gray wolves and white-tailed deer, led a recent study published in the journal Behavior, an animal behavior peer-reviewed publication.<br />
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Barber-Meyer’s team studied pack size and hunting behaviors of gray wolves in Denali National Park and compared them to those in Yellowstone National Park and areas around the Yukon in Canada.<br />
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The researchers found that Alaska gray wolves go for their big-game targets in hunting packs of around 10, compared to gray wolves hunting in the Yellowstone, which typically number around three. The gray wolves of Yellowstone primarily hunt white-tailed deer.<br />
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Anthropologists from the Universities of Arizona and Washington have found evidence for a Paleolithic workshop at Swan Point in Alaska, shedding some light on how ancient Alaskans living on Beringia worked and lived. Beringia, the land bridge now submerged underwater by which ancient peoples populated Alaska and the Americas, is of great interest to anthropologists trying to understand more about the Paleolithic history of the northern and southern American continents.<br />
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Materials from the workshop date to around 14,000 years ago, and belongs to what anthropologists call the Dyuktai culture.<br />
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Researchers think the “specialized workshop” was used for making and fixing tools made from various organic materials in the vicinity, including naturally-occurring sites with high numbers of mammoth bones. Most mammoth species went extinct by around 10,000 years ago, but a smaller species of mammoth, called dwarf mammoths, persisted longer in Alaska, with the last of them disappearing from Wrangel Island on the Russian side of the Chukchi sea, fewer than 4,000 years ago.<br />
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Meanwhile, Scientific American reports a warming climate is posing challenges to those who want to peek into Alaska’s past. In an interview with Anne Jensen, senior scientist at Ukpeagvik Inupiat Corporation, Jensen detailed troubling times for Alaska researchers, who have typically enjoyed the enviable advantage of operating in frozen, well-preserved digs.<br />
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“Everything has been so well preserved,” Jensen told Scientific American. “Many organic remains – such as baleen strips, leather goods, ivory carvigns, wood bows, bone fragments and even mummies – can be 1,000 years old or more, but they look like they were buried 10 years ago. That’s because they froze quickly, and never unfroze.”<br />
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Now, that’s less the case as permafrost layers melt, exposing artifacts to the ordinary ravages of time. This month the journal Weatherwise also reported on a warming trend that’s been affecting Alaska beginning in 2013.<br />
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As Alaska’s frozen digs thaw, artifacts get destroyed, Jensen said. That’s put archaeologists and anthropologists around the state in a hurry to recover formerly-frozen digs. But there’s only so much they can do.<br />
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The American people have seen their fair share of climate deniers, including politicians who refuse to acknowledge the role of carbon emissions and years of scientific scrutiny and research, which overwhelmingly points to our warming planet causing more frequent and oft-times disastrous weather phenomena.<br />
<br />Senator Tammy Baldwin has decided as well to “gut punch” science with her recent Op-Ed in a publication catering to Wisconsin farmers. In it, she begins by representing “facts” in her argument that wolves in Wisconsin should be removed from the Endangered Species List and returned to state management:<br />
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According to the US Department of Agriculture’s report “Cattle and Calves Predator Death Loss in the United States 2010 (prior to wolves being removed from the ESL in 2012), “The percentage of cattle losses due to predators ranged from 0.3 percent on dairy operations to 4.2 percent on beef operations”. Specifically, in the Northeast (of which Wisconsin is included), 94.8% of cattle losses (98.6 calf losses) are due to “animal rearing environment and associated management practices”.<br />
You cannot argue statistics.<br />
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<strong>“Families have lost pets”.</strong><br />
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Wisconsin DNR: 1 pet dog lost to wolves in 2016.Wisconsin is one of the few states that allows the practice of bear hounding; hounds are allowed to run on public lands to hunt for small game and for bear training and hunting from July 1 through August 31.<br />
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According to the Wisconsin DNR, this year has witnessed an astonishing 40 hound dogs killed by wolves who stumble onto wolf rendezvous sites where wolves are raising their pups.<br />
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The “Class B” license required for non-residents to bait and kill bears was eliminated for 2016; thus, more hounds running on public lands near “wolf caution areas”.<br />
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Wolf populations were nearly identical in 2012, yet only 7 hound dogs were taken by wolves that year. A correlation perhaps between more hounds running everywhere and more hound losses?<br />
Hound dogs: not pets, but “tools” for hunters just like the GPS collars hounds wear. A Bear hunters’ hound killed by a wolf during bear hunting can receive upwards of $2500 reimbursement from the State of Wisconsin.<br />
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<strong>Safety of children</strong><br />
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“Parents have decided it’s no longer safe to let their kids play where they normally do.” According to the International Wolf Center’s article “Are wolves Dangerous to Humans?”, “the vast majority of wolves do not pose any threat to human safety. A person in wolf country has a greater chance of being killed by a dog, lightning, a bee sting or a car collision with a deer than being injured by a wolf (http://wolf.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Are-Wolves-Dangerous-toHumans.pdf).<br />
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Baldwin goes on to falsely claim that “sportsmen and wildlife enthusiasts report declines in the population of deer, elk, and other wildlife.”<br />
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\Wisconsin DNR says otherwise: “The statewide posthunt white-tailed deer population estimate for 2015 was approximately 1,181,400, 8% higher than in 2014.” Where did deer numbers increase most? In areas where wolves are present (Northern and Central forest zones).<br />
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And the reintroduced elk herds? The DNR states: “The population has grown at an average rate of 7 percent per year with some years showing nearly a 30 percent increase while a few years have resulted in negative population growth due to severe winter conditions resulting in high mortality and low recruitment.”<br />
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When wolves were removed from the ESL in 2012, the state proceeded to allow an unprecedented slaughter of wolves by any-and-all legal means, including baited trapping, hounding (“legalized dog fighting”), shooting, bow and cross-bow. In a matter of 3 years, 17 wolf packs destroyed; 500 killed in trophy hunts. 170 wolves killed at the request of livestock operators, and anywhere from 180-360 poached wolves (see Stenglein, UW-Madison).<br />
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Documented decreases in pack size to 3.2, making it more difficult for packs to hunt larger game.<br />Act 169 will ensure that loosely regulated wolf killing will ensue if wolves are once again delisted; the Feds made that clear by protecting them. Senator Baldwin is catering to special interests using fairytales instead of facts to buttress her arguments for delisting.<br />
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<strong>Elizabeth Huntley Roberts </strong><br />
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For Immediate Release, November 23, 2016<br />
Contact: Michael Robinson, (575) 313-7017, michaelr@biologicaldiversity.org<br />
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SILVER CITY, <i>N.M.</i>— Shrouded in secrecy in mid-November, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service captured alive and removed another <a href="http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/mammals/Mexican_gray_wolf/index.html" target="_blank">Mexican gray wolf</a> from the wild in response to the killing of cattle on national forest and state lands in east-central Arizona. The removal of the male wolf accelerates the extinction threat of the unique southwestern subspecies that has already seen at least 11 deaths and one other removal this year and declined 13 percent last year, leaving only 97 animals in Arizona and New Mexico. The captured wolf had a mate who is still in the wild.<br />
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“The Mexican gray wolf simply can’t afford more animals being removed from the wild or even killed because of the occasional cattle loss,” said Michael Robinson of the Center for Biological Diversity. “The research shows that non-lethal efforts to protect livestock are far more effective than removing or killing wolves. Yet, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has steadfastly refused to require ranchers to do anything to protect their livestock prior to removing or killing wolves.”<br />
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The Fish and Wildlife Service has long flouted the recommendations of scientists in the management of the Mexican gray wolf. For example in 2008 the Association of Zoos and Aquariums requested a moratorium on permanent removals of Mexican wolves “until an expert taskforce on genetic issues can be convened to provide guidance to these actions.” The Service has yet to convene such a taskforce and had no knowledge of the latest captured wolf’s genetic composition before removing him because he was born in the wild and had never previously been captured. The Service rarely re-releases wolves once they’ve been taken into captivity.<br />
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Similarly in 2007 the American Society of Mammalogists, the leading association of scientists who study mammals, opposed removing Mexican wolves “at least until the interim 100-wolf goal of the current reintroduction program has been achieved,” and urged the Service to “protect wolves from the consequences of scavenging on livestock carcasses” — a frequent precursor to depredations.<br />
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The latest removal of a wolf follows removals of other wolves in past years on behalf of the same livestock owner. It is not known whether carcasses of non-wolf-killed stock contributed to the recent depredations. But documents received by the Center under the Freedom of Information Act show that the last Mexican wolf removed by the government — a male from the Luna Pack trapped in May in the Gila National Forest in New Mexico — was drawn to vulnerable cattle through scavenging on carcasses of cows that had died due to birthing complications.<br />
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“The Fish and Wildlife Service maintains that it can recover wolves through traps and bullets — some of the same tools that the same agency used decades ago in exterminating them,” said Robinson. “But appeasing the public-lands livestock industry in this manner has led to repeated population downturns and consistent failure to meet the Service’s own metrics for progress.”<br />
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“Every trapped wolf is not just an individual animal suffering, along with a mate wandering the wild forlorn, but represents another step toward extinction.”<br />
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Wolves can no longer be hunted in Killarney Provincial Park, as well as certain other area in the province.<br />
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Ontario is taking measures to protect the threatened Algonquin wolf population by introducing new rules for hunting and trapping in certain areas.<br />
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Due to the similarity in appearance of Algonquin wolf and coyotes and other wolves, the province has closed the hunting and trapping of all wolves and coyotes in select areas to support recovery of the Algonquin wolf species. It is now illegal to hunt and trap wolves and coyotes in the following provincial parks that the Algonquin wolf is known to inhabit, as well as their surrounding areas:<br />
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Landowners in these areas still have the right to kill or harm wolves and coyotes if there is imminent risk to their health and safety, or to their domestic animals and livestock. Additionally, hunting and trapping coyotes and wolves in other areas of the province, outside of the protected areas, is permitted.<br />
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The Algonquin wolf is classified as "threatened" by the Committee on the Status of Species at Risk in Ontario. Threatened species and their habitats are automatically and immediately protected by the Endangered Species Act.<br />
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These regulatory changes balance the economic safety needs of local landowners and farmers with the need to protect this threatened species.<br />
For more information on the Algonquin wolf as well as hunting and trapping rules, visit <a href="http://ontario.ca/page/algonquin-wolf" target="_blank">ontario.ca/page/algonquin-wolf</a>.<br />
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LANSING, MI — The Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled a 2014 law that enables state wildlife officials to allow wolf hunting if the animals are ever dropped from the U.S. Endangered Species List in Michigan is unconstitutional.<br />
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<a href="http://publicdocs.courts.mi.gov:81/OPINIONS/FINAL/COA/20161122_C328604_21_328604.OPN.PDF">In an opinion</a> released Wednesday, Nov. 23, the three-judge panel overturned a 2015 Michigan Court of Claims ruling that upheld the state Natural Resources Commission's authority to classify gray wolves as a game species.<br />
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The appellate ruling in favor of the citizen group Keep Michigan Wolves Protected (KMWP), which challenged the state's authority to hunt wolves, said the Scientific Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act, also known as Public Act 281 of 2014, violates the "title-object clause" of the Michigan constitution.<br />
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The group issued a statement praising the decision.<br />
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"This was a blatant power grab by politicians to take away voting rights from Michigan citizens," said KMWP director Jill Fritz.<br />
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"We are delighted the court has rejected the legislature's outrageous attempt to subvert the will of the people of Michigan, and declared unconstitutional the legislature's attempt to force a wolf hunt. This ruling restores the people's decision, in two statewide votes, overwhelmingly rejecting the trophy hunting and commercial trapping of the state's small population of wolves."<br />
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Keep Michigan Wolves Protected argued the circulated petition resulting in the 2014 law, "routinely told electors targeted for signature" the law would provide free hunting licenses for veterans and prevent invasive species without mentioning that it would permit wolf hunting, nullify pending referendums to the contrary, and make the act referendum-proof.<br />
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Since the title of the propose law didn't inform the public or legislature of the law's actual effects, the group argued it was unconstitutional.<br />
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In 2015, KMWP lost in the Court of Claims, which said the 2014 law's general purpose was to "manage fish, wildlife, and their habitats" and the failure to mention wolves was "germane, auxiliary, or incidental" to managing wildlife.<br />
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The appellate judges, however, agreed with KMWP's argument that that the "provision of free licenses to active members of the military is not germane to the scientific management of fish, wildlife, and their habitats, nor does it directly relate to, carry out, or implement this principal object of PA 281."<br />
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The panel wrote that "we cannot presume that the Legislature would have passed PA 281 without the provision allowing free hunting, trapping, and fishing licenses for active members of the military" and because it's impossible to know what weight that provision would have exerted in the legislature, legal precedent precludes severing the law into pieces and the entire act is unconstitutional.<br />
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<i>"Plaintiff's description regarding how PA 281 came into being
conjures up images of a Trojan Horse, within which the ability to hunt
wolves was cleverly hidden. Plaintiff claims that the initiating
petition was strategically drafted in such a way as to appeal to
potential signers by touting that it would ensure that only sound
scientific principles would govern the taking of fish and game, rather
than allowing the selection of game to become the subject of legislative
footballs, that it would support our active-military members by letting
them hunt and fish for free, and that it would provide money to combat
the spread of Asian carp — all of which have excellent "curb appeal" —
while surreptitiously slipping inside the body of the act a reenacting
provision to ensure that regardless of the referenda votes on PA 520 and
PA 21, wolves would be on the game species list, as would associated
wolf hunting provisions, and that the appropriations provisions made the
whole package referenda-proof. However accurate the plaintiff may be in
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Consequently, we reverse the order granting summary judgment for
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The opinion was authored by judges Donald Owens, Joel Hoekstra and Jane Beckering.<br />
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has tried four times in the last 15 years to delist Great Lakes gray wolves. The courts have reversed each attempt.<br />
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Keep Michigan Wolves Protected wants to see wolves "downlisted," as opposed to delisted from U.S. Endangered Species List, which allows for lethal control of problem wolves, but not game season hunting.<br />
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Michigan held its first and only wolf hunt in late 2013, a year after federal protections were dropped in the region. Twenty-three wolves were killed. There was no hunt in 2014, when statewide voters overturned enabling laws.<br />
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In Dec. 2014, a federal judge overturned the last delisting of Great Lakes wolves. In a controversial opinion, the judge ruled the Endangered Species Act does not allow the government to declare a "distinct population segment" of a species recovered and then drop protection within that zone on a map.<br />
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At last count, there were 3,700 wolves in the Western Great Lakes population. About 630 are in Michigan, 800 are in Wisconsin and the bulk, 2,220 or so, are in Minnesota — the one U.S. state in the whole Lower 48 where the population never dipped enough to be listed as "endangered," only threatened.<br />
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While delisting supporters point to those numbers as evidence of population recovery, opponents say wolves have yet to repopulate their historic range after being nearly exterminated in the U.S. decades ago.<br />
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The delisting debate has split conservation and environmental groups over the issue of hunting, which states could allow if protections are dropped. Even biologists who study wolves don't speak with a unified voice on the issue.<br />
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Wolves are presently listed as endangered in Michigan and cannot be killed except in the defense of human life. There have been <a href="http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/03/gray_wolves_share_act.html">numerous bills</a> in Congress since the federal order to strip wolf protection in several states.<br />
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Hateful attitudes toward wolves should be overcome by clear-headed thinking about the role they play in ecology and also their value in rural communities. <span class="wayne-media-credit">Photo by Alamy</span>
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Nobody eats wolves.<br />
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If you’re a meat eater, it’s one thing to hunt deer or some other wild animals and consume them. It’s another matter to go on a head-hunting exercise, or just kill for the thrill of it.<br />
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In the lame-duck session of Congress, there is a big move afoot to <a data-stamped="true" href="http://blog.humanesociety.org/wayne/2016/07/lies-about-wolves.html?credit=blog_post_112216_id8583">eliminate federal protections for wolves</a> in four states that, for the most part, have a terrible record of caring for their small populations of that species. If Congress subverts the federal courts, and selectively removes wolves from the list of threatened and endangered species in Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Wyoming, it will only serve to enable people to kill wolves for no good reason.<br />
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U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., recently came out with a <a href="http://www.stevenspointjournal.com/story/opinion/columnists/2016/11/21/baldwin-delist-gray-wolf-endangered-species/94218628/">statement </a>urging Congress to strip federal protections for wolves, even though a series of federal judges have said that there’s <a data-stamped="true" href="http://blog.humanesociety.org/wayne/2014/12/court-says-wolves-are-protected-under-esa.html?credit=blog_post_112216_id8583">no legitimate legal or scientific basis for delisting</a>. Advocates of wolf killing have appealed the latest ruling affirming the need for federal protection, so an end-around the courts amounts to a subversion of judicial review.<br />
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If federal lawmakers go down this road, where does it end? To score political points with a favored constituency, or to try to neutralize or win over a problematic constituency, lawmakers will start removing species from the ark willy-nilly. It sets an awful precedent, and Sen. Baldwin should know better.<br />
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She would do well to recall the words – in fact, all of us would do well to recall them — of another Wisconsinite about our relationship with wolves. In his essay, “<a href="http://www.eco-action.org/dt/thinking.html">Thinking Like a Mountain</a>,” part of <em>A Sand County Almanac</em>, naturalist and hunter Aldo Leopold recalled a hunting experience in which his party killed a she-wolf at a time when almost all conservationists believed that the killing of predators was necessary. “We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes,” Leopold wrote. “I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes – something known only to her and to the mountain.”<br />
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Hateful attitudes toward wolves should be overcome by clear-headed thinking about the role they play in ecology and also their value in rural communities. People trek to wolf-inhabited forests precisely because these animals are there, boosting tourism-related commerce. Wolves also limit deer and moose populations, depressing crop depredation, and shrinking the number of collisions between these animals and cars. Wolves kill weak, sick, and older deer and moose, beavers, and other animals, making the herds healthier, which has a broad, balancing, and beneficial impact on ecosystems. Wolves are a bulwark against the spread of chronic wasting disease, because they kill deer and other hooved animals that show the symptoms of the brain-wasting prion.<br />
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A maneuver to delist wolves is a bit of a cover-up and a bait-and-switch for poor oversight over domesticated dogs and farm animals. I’ve run across countless examples, from Wisconsin, Michigan, and other states, where wolves take the blame when a farmer doesn’t provide proper use of non-lethal controls or shows off poor animal husbandry that puts cattle or sheep at risk. Wolves often get the blame for animals they didn’t kill too, because no agency bothers to verify livestock losses that farmers and ranchers claim.<br />
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An overwhelming majority of Americans – 90 percent according to a June 2015 poll – support the Endangered Species Act, and it is the most important law our nation has ever passed to protect species at risk of extinction. Michigan voters took up two wolf hunting referendums in 2014 – the only state to have popular votes on the issue – and <a data-stamped="true" href="http://blog.humanesociety.org/wayne/2014/11/wolves-gain-bears-suffer-a-loss.html?credit=blog_post_112216_id8583">voters rejected wolf hunting and trapping in landslide votes</a>.<br />
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Last year, more than 50 world-renowned wildlife biologists and scientists, many of whom have devoted their entire professional careers toward understanding the social and biological issues surrounding wolves in North America, <a data-stamped="true" href="http://blog.humanesociety.org/wayne/2015/02/scientists-letter-wolves-congress.html?credit=blog_post_112216_id8583">sent a letter to Congress </a>urging members to oppose any efforts to strip federal protections for wolves in the contiguous 48 states. If Congress were to take this adverse action, according to these scientists, it would upend two recent federal court rulings, which criticized the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for distorting the “plain meaning” of the standards of the ESA and admonished several state wildlife agencies for conducting overreaching and dangerous trophy-hunting and trapping programs upon federal delisting.<br />
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Sen. Baldwin, please reconsider your ill-advised recommendation to Congress to delist wolves and subject them not only to trophy hunting, but to being ensnared by steel-jawed leghold traps and being chased and savaged by packs of dogs. This is trophy hunting and trapping masquerading as wildlife management. It’s most definitely not proper stewardship of God’s creatures. And it’s not decent or humane.<br />
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Let Sen. Baldwin know you’re unhappy with her stance by calling her at 202-224-5653, and please <a data-stamped="true" href="http://action.humanesociety.org/site/PageServer?pagename=electedOfficials_federal&s_src=blog_post_112216_id8583">contact your members of Congress</a> at 202-224-3121 and ask them to oppose this plan.<br />
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Mountain Apache Tribe (WMAT).<br /><br />To view semi-monthly wolf telemetry flight location information please visit <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://email.robly.com/wf/click?upn%3DnTsR-2BDy-2BT-2FLGqwMrkQX0sMG4TfhsXbJuqz6uTVSJVr-2Fj-2FRflSijO6BJTqzTQrncW_J6J3UYrZzzHVKtBIXtOYtlznuIllCGAP18TuLkIEG2337nMDw5vFQ15p86Fl6RdVQoa9LNZr1Xb0s2VxjbkmPOA4K-2B7-2Fh2PmFslbjXadhaDXB3k-2Bwe94U6qGJ6aj0MZRw-2B3a-2B2gqqrh31FKtMhfl6kC0OQOwMCdnlRaVymHZAgPeGnXG-2BSCDZQqtVMW059VxqTONiTiLGjG8vfXrp95TPpNtMmgjcVNg9LIVMh2qP-2BRqNtGyzmQRLLpIlN2rPUbyeAqBeCFyF6-2F-2F9KLjwyyHyJBu7AE4P7vAH95ib6-2Bre5RpJZJV3Tjlx-2F-2FCznDwBYmbTvudJ9RggWl3y85bEBeAOtwG-2FgsGp8C1d6bfQbTVpB8eAQbmBs0rxh5OCq-2BElqZezBEaZzP1-2FqAcHp3RvT-2B27ka5qOYw5ftGQWyx2dujq3LKcitFRCAi94YFXOng-2B85aDn-2FUoeFlUC7WxIWizC9X7A-3D-3D&source=gmail&ust=1479763367612000&usg=AFQjCNFR1MrVi04fm67qaQNcktjbUX4GtQ" href="http://email.robly.com/wf/click?upn=nTsR-2BDy-2BT-2FLGqwMrkQX0sMG4TfhsXbJuqz6uTVSJVr-2Fj-2FRflSijO6BJTqzTQrncW_J6J3UYrZzzHVKtBIXtOYtlznuIllCGAP18TuLkIEG2337nMDw5vFQ15p86Fl6RdVQoa9LNZr1Xb0s2VxjbkmPOA4K-2B7-2Fh2PmFslbjXadhaDXB3k-2Bwe94U6qGJ6aj0MZRw-2B3a-2B2gqqrh31FKtMhfl6kC0OQOwMCdnlRaVymHZAgPeGnXG-2BSCDZQqtVMW059VxqTONiTiLGjG8vfXrp95TPpNtMmgjcVNg9LIVMh2qP-2BRqNtGyzmQRLLpIlN2rPUbyeAqBeCFyF6-2F-2F9KLjwyyHyJBu7AE4P7vAH95ib6-2Bre5RpJZJV3Tjlx-2F-2FCznDwBYmbTvudJ9RggWl3y85bEBeAOtwG-2FgsGp8C1d6bfQbTVpB8eAQbmBs0rxh5OCq-2BElqZezBEaZzP1-2FqAcHp3RvT-2B27ka5qOYw5ftGQWyx2dujq3LKcitFRCAi94YFXOng-2B85aDn-2FUoeFlUC7WxIWizC9X7A-3D-3D" target="_blank">http://bit.do/mexicanwolf</a><div style="cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; height: 16px; width: 16px;">
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.<br /><br /><strong>Please report any wolf sightings or suspected livestock depredations to:</strong> the Alpine wolf office <a href="tel:%28928%29%20339-4329" target="_blank" value="+19283394329">(928) 339-4329</a> or toll free at <a href="tel:%28888%29%20459-9653" target="_blank" value="+18884599653">(888) 459-9653</a>. To report incidents of take or harassment of wolves, please call the AGFD 24-hour dispatch (Operation Game Thief) at <a href="tel:%28800%29%20352-0700" target="_blank" value="+18003520700">(800) 352-0700</a>.<br /> </span></span></span></div>
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<br /><u><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>Overall Mexican Wolf Recovery Program Monthly Update</strong></span></span></span></u>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The USFWS assisted the Rio Grande Zoo with public education during Wolf Awareness Week on October 20, 2016.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><strong>Numbering System:</strong>
Mexican wolves are given an identification number recorded in an
official studbook that tracks their history. Capital letters (M = Male,
F = Female) preceding the number indicate adult animals 24 months or
older. Lower case letters (m = male, f = female) indicate wolves younger
than 24 months or pups. The capital letter “A” preceding the letter and
number indicate breeding wolves.<br /><br /><strong>Definitions:</strong> A “wolf pack” is defined as two or more wolves that maintain an<br />established
territory. In the event that one of the two alpha (dominant) wolves
dies, the remaining alpha wolf, regardless of pack size, retains the
pack status. The packs referenced in this update contain at least one
wolf with a radio telemetry collar attached to it. The Interagency Field
Team (IFT) recognizes that wolves without radio telemetry collars may
also form packs. If the IFT confirms that wolves are associating with
each other and are resident within the same home range, they will be
referenced as a pack.<br /> </span></span></span></div>
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<br /><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><u><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>CURRENT POPULATION STATUS</strong></span></u></span></span><br /><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Population
monitoring requires year round effort documenting births, deaths,
survival, total numbers, and distribution. Mortality occurs throughout
the year and is particularly high on young pups, so while the IFT has
documented reproduction this year, the IFT will not have a complete idea
of how many of these young pups and adults have died until the annual
population survey which is conducted in the winter. Annual surveys are
conducted in the winter because it is when the population is
experiencing the least amount of natural fluctuation (i.e. in the spring
the population increases dramatically with the birth of new pups and
declines throughout the summer and fall as mortality is particularly
high on young pups). Thus, the IFT summarizes the total number of
wolves in the winter at a fairly static or consistent time of year.
This allows for comparable year-to-year trends at a time of year that
accounts for most mortality and survival of young pups. At this time,
the IFT’s best estimate is that there was a minimum of 97 wolves in the
wild as of December 31, 2015. At the current time there are 53 wolves
with functioning radio collars that the IFT is actively monitoring. <br /> </span></span></span>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>IN ARIZONA:</strong></span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Bear Wallow Pack (collared AM1338 and AF1335)</span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In
October, the Bear Wallow Pack was located within their traditional
territory in the east central portion of the Apache-Sitgreaves National
Forest (ASNF).</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Bluestem Pack (collared M1382, F1443, and f1488)</span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In
October, the Bluestem Pack continued to use their traditional territory
in the east central portion of the ASNF. The pack continued to display
rendezvousing behavior through the month and periodically used a
diversionary food cache to prevent potential depredation issues in the
area.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Buckalou Pack (collared F1405) </span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In October, F1405 dispersed from Arizona and localized in the east central portion of the Gila National Forest in New Mexico. </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> . </span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Elk Horn Pack (collared AF1294, AM1342, mp1474, and mp1471) </span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In
October, the Elk Horn Pack was located within their traditional
territory in the north eastern portion of the ASNF. The IFT documented
rendezvous behavior by this pack during the month of October. The Elk
Horn Pack has periodically used a food cache set up by the IFT to
supplement the pack due to the cross-foster of two pups this spring. A
minimum of two uncollared pups were documented traveling with the Elk
Horn pack this month.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Hawks Nest Pack (collared AM1038) </span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In
October, the Hawks Nest Pack was typically located within their
traditional territory in the north central portion of the ASNF. The IFT
documented a dispersal movement by AM1038 west onto the FAIR. </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Hoodoo Pack (collared AM1290, AF1333, m1441, fp1549, and fp1550)</span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In
October, the Hoodoo Pack remained in the north central portion of the
ASNF. The IFT documented rendezvous behavior by the Hoodoo Pack this
month. The Hoodoo Pack has continued to utilize the food cache put in
place for them to prevent potential depredation issues in the area. A
minimum of three uncollared pups were documented traveling with the
Hoodoo Pack this month.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Marble Pack (collared AM1330)</span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">AM1330 was not heard or located during the month of October and is now considered fate unknown. </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Maverick Pack (collared AF1291)</span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In October, the Maverick Pack was located within their traditional territory both on the FAIR and ASNF. </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Panther Creek Pack (collared AF1339, AM1394, mp1483, fp1484, fp1485, and mp1486)</span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In
October, the Panther Creek Pack was located in the east central portion
of the ASNF. The Panther Creek Pack continued to show rendezvousing
behavior and utilize the food cache that the IFT has maintained for them
to supplement the pack due to the two pups cross-fostered into the
Panther Creek Pack in April. One male pup (mp1483) and two female pups
(fp1484 and fp1485) were captured, collared, and released in October.
These pups were wild-born and were not one of two pups cross-fostered
into the Panther Creek Pack. A minimum of six pups were documented
traveling with the pack this month, confirming that at least one
cross-fostered pup survived to October.</span></span></span></div>
<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><br /><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>ON THE FAIR:</strong></span></span></span><br /><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><div>
<strong><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Diamond Pack (collared m1447, f1557, mp1558, mp1559, and fp1560)</span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In
October, the Diamond Pack was located within their traditional
territory in the eastern portion of the FAIR and the northern portion of
the ASNF. One female (f1557), one female pup (fp1560), and two male
pups (mp1558 and mp1559) were captured, collared, and released in
October. The IFT confirmed AM1249 was traveling with the pack in
October.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Tsay-O-Ah Pack (collared AM1343 and AF1283)</span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In October, the Tsay-o-Ah Pack was located within their traditional territory in the eastern portion of the FAIR.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Baldy Pack (collared M1347 and f1445)</span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In October, the Baldy Pack was located in the eastern portion of the FAIR and northern portion of the ASNF.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><br /><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>IN NEW MEXICO:</strong></span></span></span>
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<strong><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Dark Canyon Pack (collared AM992 and f1444) </span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">During
October, the IFT located this pack within its traditional territory in
the west central portion of the Gila National Forest (GNF). </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Iron Creek Pack (collared AM1240, AF1278 and mp1556)</span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">During
October, the Iron Creek Pack continued to utilize their territory in
the northern portion of the Gila Wilderness and the southern portion of
the GNF. A diversionary food cache is being maintained for the Iron
Creek Pack to mitigate potential wolf-livestock conflicts. During
October, mp1555, a male pup that had been captured at the end of
September, slipped its collar.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Luna Pack (collared AF1487 and mp1554)</span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">During
October, the Luna Pack remained in their traditional territory in the
north central portion of the GNF. The IFT is maintaining a diversionary
and supplemental food cache in efforts to reduce potential for further
livestock depredations. </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Mangas Pack (collared M1296 and F1439)</span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">During
October, the Mangas Pack was located within their territory in north
western portions of the GNF in New Mexico. On October 24, a private
trapper captured F1439 and contacted the IFT. Members from the IFT
responded immediately, processed, recollared and released the female
wolf onsite.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Prieto Pack (collared M1386, m1455, f1456, M1552 and f1553)</span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">During
October, the Prieto Pack was located within their traditional territory
in the north central portion of the GNF. f1553 was documented
traveling apart from the Prieto Pack with single male wolf M1398 in the
west central portion of the GNF.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">San Mateo Pack (collared AF1399)</span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">During
October, the IFT documented AM1345 and AF1399 traveling together within
their territory in the north central portion of the GNF. The
diversionary food cache that had been established and maintained since
April was removed. No known wolf/livestock conflicts were documented
for the San Mateo pack during the 2016 denning season.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Sheepherders Baseball Park (SBP) Pack </span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">During
October, the SBP Pack continued to use their traditional territory in
the north central portion of the GNF. AM1284 was documented on trail
camera traveling with pups. The IFT began trapping efforts in October
to recollar AM1284 and collar any pups.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Willow Springs Pack (collared F1397)</span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">During
October, the IFT documented the Willow Springs Pack within their
traditional territory in the north central portion of the GNF. </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Single collared M1293</span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">During
October, M1293 was located within the Gila Wilderness in New Mexico.
Trapping efforts were initiated in October to recollar M1293, along with
any wolves traveling with him.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Single collared AM1155</span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">During October, AM1155 was documented traveling within New Mexico.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Single collared M1398 </span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">During October, M1398 was documented traveling with f1553 of the Prieto Pack in the west central portion of the GNF.</span></span></span></div>
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<br /><u><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>MORTALITIES</strong></span></span></span></u><br /><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">There were no mortalities documented in the month of October.<br /> </span></span></span>
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<br /><u><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>INCIDENTS</strong></span></span></span></u><br /><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">During
October, there were seven livestock depredation reports and no nuisance
reports. Six of the seven depredation reports were confirmed or
probable wolf kills. </span></span></span><div>
<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">On <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2126553644" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">October 5</span></span>,
Wildlife Services investigated a dead calf in Apache County, Arizona.
The investigation determined the calf was a confirmed wolf kill. </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">On <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2126553645" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">October 8</span></span>,
Wildlife Services investigated a dead calf in Catron County, New
Mexico. The investigation determined the calf was a confirmed wolf
kill.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">On <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2126553646" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">October 13</span></span>,
Wildlife Services investigated a dead cow in Catron County, New
Mexico. The investigation determined the cow was a probable wolf kill.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div>
<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">On <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2126553647" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">October 13</span></span>,
Wildlife Services investigated a dead cow in Catron County, New
Mexico. The investigation determined the cow was a confirmed wolf kill.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div>
<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">On <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2126553648" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">October 13</span></span>,
Wildlife Services investigated a dead calf in Apache County, Arizona.
The investigation determined the calf had been killed by coyotes.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">On <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2126553649" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">October 15</span></span>,
Wildlife Services investigated a dead calf in Apache County, Arizona.
The investigation determined the calf was a confirmed wolf kill.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div>
<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">On
October 22, Wildlife Services investigated a dead calf in Catron
County, New Mexico. The investigation determined the calf was a
confirmed wolf kill.</span></span></span></div>
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<br /><u><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>COMMUNICATION AND COORDINATION</strong></span></span></span></u>
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<div>
<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In
the end of September, USFWS personnel presented two informational talks
on Mexican wolf recovery to around 250 Phoenix Zoo staff and patrons.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In October, USFWS gave two presentations on Mexican wolf recovery at The Wildlife Society National Conference in Raleigh, NC.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><strong><u><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">PROJECT PERSONNEL</span></u></strong></span></span></div>
<div>
<span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="m_8636125349574662098span_font_wrapper"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In
October, USFWS volunteer Elizabeth Karslake completed her six month
position to pursue other professional endeavors. Thank you Elizabeth
for your hard work and dedication, and best wishes in your pursuits!<br /> </span></span></span></div>
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individual(s) responsible for the shooting deaths of Mexican wolves. A
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pledged an additional $46,000 for a total reward amount of up to
$58,000, depending on the information provided.<br /><br />Individuals with
information they believe may be helpful are urged to call one of the
following agencies: USFWS special agents in Mesa, Arizona, at <a href="tel:%28480%29%20967-7900" target="_blank" value="+14809677900">(480) 967-7900</a>, in Alpine, Arizona, at <a href="tel:%28928%29%20339-4232" target="_blank" value="+19283394232">(928) 339-4232</a>, or in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at <a href="tel:%28505%29%20346-7828" target="_blank" value="+15053467828">(505) 346-7828</a>; the WMAT at <a href="tel:%28928%29%20338-1023" target="_blank" value="+19283381023">(928) 338-1023</a> or <a href="tel:%28928%29%20338-4385" target="_blank" value="+19283384385">(928) 338-4385</a>; AGFD Operation Game Thief at <a href="tel:%28800%29%20352-0700" target="_blank" value="+18003520700">(800) 352-0700</a>; or NMDGF Operation Game Thief at <a href="tel:%28800%29%20432-4263" target="_blank" value="+18004324263">(800) 432-4263</a>.
Killing a Mexican wolf is a violation of the Federal Endangered Species
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<strong>Never have state wildlife officials registered so few predator attacks on Norway’s freely grazing livestock as in the past year. Hopes are rising that the new statistics may prompt reversal of a highly controversial order to kill off nearly two-thirds of the country’s recently re-built wolf population.</strong></div>
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Wolves like this one in Sweden have crossed the border into Norway and established themselves in zones set aside by governments obligated to restore the wolf population. Now as many as 47 may be shot, to appease farmers who claim their free-grazing sheep are threatened, but new statistics show that predator attacks have reached a new low. PHOTO: Wikipedia Commons</div>
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Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) reported on its nightly newscast <em>Dagsrevyen</em> Sunday that the number of registered attacks by wolves on sheep, for example, hasn’t been lower than for many years. The deadline for ranchers to report losses from predators during the summer’s open grazing season passed November 1, and state wildlife management officials at <em>Statens naturforvaltning</em> told NRK that the government will be handed another batch of numbers showing reductions in predator attacks.</div>
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<em>Statens naturoppsyn</em>, the state agency that actually carries out field work all over the country, reported last year as well that predators had killed just over 800 sheep in 2014 and 2015, down from 1,315 in 2009 and 1,279 in 2007. Wolves are far from the only predators involved, which also include wolverines, badgers, bears and eagles, for example. Just last week, a pack of dogs attacked and killed several sheep in Trøndelag.</div>
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It’s the wolves, however, that have been targeted for what environmentalists are calling a <a href="http://www.newsinenglish.no/2016/10/17/thousands-turned-out-to-save-the-wolves/" target="_blank">“mass slaughter” that has sparked criticism from all over the world</a>. Norway’s wolf population, which has been built up over the past two decades after bordering on extinction, currently amounts to around 65 wolves. State authorities have gone along with ranchers’ demands for a wolf hunt this winter that can allow for up to 24 wolves to be shot within Norway’s established wolf zones, and as many as 47 wolves including those found outside the zones.</div>
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The order has been <a href="http://www.newsinenglish.no/2016/10/31/wolves-fate-left-up-to-this-man/" target="_blank">appealed, however, to the government minister in charge of climate and the environment</a>. That post is currently held by Vidar Helgesen of the Conservative Party, who confirmed to Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) over the weekend that new statistics from wildlife experts show “historically low losses” of sheep to the wolves.</div>
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Helgesen told NRK that the overall reduction in predator attacks in Norway “shows that the government’s (wildlife management) policies are working.” He noted, however, that another reduction in livestock losses won’t necessarily affect how he evaluates the current case. Instead, he told NRK, he’ll mostly base his verdict on the Parliament’s decision on how large the wolf population should be and on Norway’s international obligations.</div>
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Silje Lundberg, leader of the national environmental organization <em>Naturvernforbundet</em>, told NRK that Helgesen must take “the reality of the situation” into account. She claimed the low numbers of attacks on sheep confirm that the wolves do not pose such a huge threat to Norwegian livestock as the farmers claim.</div>
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<span>torstai 10. marraskuuta 2016</span></h2>
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It's been a while since I last wrote, mainly since there isn't much to report.<br /><br />The final-final results of the management hunt from this spring came in few days ago.<br /><br />So the amount of wolves killed in this management hunt was 43 individuals. Out of them 25 were males and 18 females.<br />
<br />Adult:sub-adult:pup ratio was 23:1:19.<br />Confirmed alphas included 3 males and 8 females.<br />Males without confirmation/knowledge of status: 9<br />Males non-alpha 2<br />Females non-alpha 1<br />Female/Male pup ratio 9:10<br />1 sub-adult male<br />
<br />Including the confirmed alphas from other removals, the complete toll of alphas killed between 1.August 2015-31.July 2016 was 13 alphas. During this period total of killed wolves was 73.<br />
<br />This amount was way larger than anticipated. 30 wolves died outside of the management hunt. At least 10 of them were killed in the reindeer herding area, some of them died in vehicle collisions, one was shot to safeguard one's life (a collared wandering male redirected his aggression towards a man after hunting dog escaped him to his owner and owners friend). Several were ordered by the police to be lethally removed after deterring didn't work (these instances happened in and close proximity of either settlements or urban areas.)<br />
<br />The hunting will however continue, although different, since the unexpected amount of killed wolves during a year period. Details of future hunting legislation is still being prepared, but already it has been confirmed that there'll be a yearly cap for wolves killed and the permit process will be lighter.<br />
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One of the biggest problems of the test management hunt was the period of appeals. The permits had to be issued early, so that the hunt would be over before the breeding season. In future, it seems, the appeal period will not be used. (There was also a rush during the hunt, due fear of withdrawal of the permits by court of justice, which might be partially to blame for large amount of alphas felled during the hunt.)<br />
<br />The preliminary estimate of the wolf population shows decrease in number of packs, but since the observation period for this was only approx. 2 months long (1. August - around 15.October) and without any snow on the ground, it is highly uncertain. The amount of packs given in this preliminary estimate was 23-28. Last year the similar estimate was 22-43 packs. (Confirmed later to be 37-39 packs).<br />
<br />Information regarding whether there'll be a new, more certain estimate is contradicting, since the management plan states there'll be 2 estimates, one given in October-November containing amount of packs and a final estimate in February-March including amount of individuals.<br />
<br />But during the press conference it might have been said, that there will be a 3rd estimate, that will be given somewhere around November-December when snow cover reveals tracks made by packs and pairs. Unfortunately, the information regarding this is scarce and the Natural Resources Institute hasn't told anything in it's own web-page regarding this estimate. (only the press release was given through STT-news agency)<br />
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<b>Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry proposes: Wolf quota to be set at 40 individuals outside reindeer herding area</b><br />
<b><br /></b> Ministry is proposing a yearly quota of 40 individuals to be killed during 2016-2018 hunting years (2 year period). The amount will be put in to a new consideration in 2017.<br />
<br />The amount of killed wolves will include all known wolf mortality outside reindeer herding area.<br />
<br />The permits will be issued through derogation clauses b and c in Article 16 of Habitats Directive.<br />
(<i> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -40px;">(b)</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -40px; word-spacing: 18pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -40px;">to prevent serious damage, in particular to crops, livestock, forests, fisheries and water and other types of property;</span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -40px;"> When the permits are given gradually, it is also easier to keep track of hunted alpha females and effect the hunting has to the wolf population.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -40px;">The decree will be re-examined in the end of 2017.</span><br />
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Norway’s sheep farmers, fearing the loss of their traditional livelihoods to packs of wolves roaming the rugged outback, have embraced a controversial approach to preserving their rural professions: <a href="https://www.regjeringen.no/en/aktuelt/regional-management-authorities-decided-culling-of-wolves/id2511643/">killing</a> nearly two-thirds of the nation’s wolf population.<br />
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“Wolf attacks hit sheep herds hard and very extensively,” said Erica Fjærn, a spokesperson for the Norwegian Association of Sheep and Goat Farmers (NSG). “This has led to sheep farmers quitting.”<br />
Currently, wolves are only supposed to live in designated “wolf zones” — areas along the craggy Norwegian-Swedish border established to nurture the country’s <a href="https://brage.bibsys.no/xmlui/handle/11250/2390916">recovering wolf population</a>. But according to Fjærn, there are too many wolves and they’re spreading across the country.<br />
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“We have to manage the [wolf] population,” she said. “They will repopulate very quickly if given the chance and then we’ll have a national problem. They’re not supposed to be in all of Norway.”<br />
Fjærn said families that have allowed their sheep to roam freely for decades — if not centuries — have had to move to wolf-free areas, only to have the beasts follow them and continue killing. Others, she reiterates, have abandoned the time-honored occupation permanently.<br />
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To manage the population, the Norwegian government has <a href="https://www.regjeringen.no/en/aktuelt/regional-management-authorities-decided-culling-of-wolves/id2511643/">authorized hunters</a> to remove 47 of the nation’s 68 wolves. The hunt, which began this fall and will continue into 2017, is expected to help mitigate conflicts by reducing Norway’s growing wolf numbers to a government-approved population size.<br />
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In a nation often viewed as environmentally-friendly, the wolf cull reflects a deep-seated battle over the future of Norway’s conservation policy. The goal is to shrink an exploding wolf population in order to mitigate human-animal conflicts, but it raises a question: how wild are wilderness areas actually allowed to be?</div>
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In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the battle was <em>between</em> humans and animals. Today, the fight is between people <em>over</em> wolves.<br />
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“It’s pure politics,” said John Linnell, a biologist with the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA). “In many ways [the wolf cull] represents a total moral failure on Norway’s part to make any significant contribution to wolf conservation.”<br />
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This debate isn’t limited to Norway; in the United States, the reintroduction of wolves to the Rocky Mountains has ignited similar passions, and conflicts, between livestock producers, conservationists, and the federal government. For conservationists, the <a href="http://www.missionwolf.org/page/wild-wolf-history/">booming wolf population in the U.S.</a> is a cause for celebration; for livestock producers, a vicious example of government overreach.<br />
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In the 1970s, after being almost completely exterminated from all of Scandinavia, wolves gained legal protections in Norway. By the 1980s, a small group of wolves of Finnish/Russian origin had immigrated to the southern areas of Sweden and Norway, and by 1999, officials estimated that there were six wolf packs living in the two countries. Last year, that number had <a href="http://www.environment.no/goals/1.-biodiversity/target-1.2/status-of-specific-threatened-species/seven-wolf-litters/">mushroomed to 49 packs</a>, seven of which lived entirely in Norway, with another four traveling back and forth over the border.<div class="speed-bump-wrapper speed-bump-dfp_instream">
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To have a healthy number of wolves, grounded in science, Linnell says Norway’s wolf zone should have as many as 30 packs.<br />
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“The interesting thing here is of all the conflicts that wolves cause, the conflict with sheep is the one conflict that actually can be mitigated,” said Linnell. “It is actually possible to change the way we farm sheep.”<br />
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That change, he said, would essentially mean putting sheep behind fences. It’s not a change that can be done overnight, he added, but the option has been on the table for a while.<br />
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“The sheep farming lobby has refused to make concessions for 30 years, and for 30 years it seems that they’ve won this by being stubborn,” added Linnell. “They seem to have actually managed to water down conservation goals and the country’s commitment to make adjustments.”<br />
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Last month, thousands of Norwegians hit the streets in protest of the wolf cull, <a href="http://www.thepetitionsite.com/459/200/467/demand-norway-stop-mass-slaughter-of-its-endangered-wolf-population/">petitions circulating online</a> have garnered hundreds of thousands of signatures internationally, and green groups have filed appeals to stop the hunt. For the time being, the cull is still on and wolves outside the designated wolf zone can be hunted. Beginning in January, wolves<em> inside</em> the zone will be hunted too, much to the delight of hunters, the chagrin of conservationists, and the relief of Norway’s sheep farmers.<br />
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But of all the large predator species in Norway, wolves committed just over 7% of the total livestock crimes that occurred. From 2010 to 2015, wolverines wiped out over 51,000 sheep and lambs, while bears ate nearly 20,000, and lynxes drug off around 39,000. The only large predator that did less damage than wolves were golden eagles, which carried away just over 11,000 animals and most of them were lambs.<br />
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Espen Farstad of the Norwegian Association of Hunters and Anglers (NJFF) said wolves are also impacting the country’s moose population, with packs of wolves killing an average between 100 and 144 moose each year. “But that’s not the main issue for the hunters in Norway,” said Farstad. “It’s actually the dogs.”</div>
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Because hunters often allow their dogs to run free when tracking moose, many end up on the wrong side of territorial wolf packs. According to NJFF, nearly 130 hunting dogs – Gordon Setters, Norwegian Greyhounds, Pointers, and other working dogs – have been killed in the line of duty by wolves since 1995.<br />
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“I think everyone who is out hunting for wolves can feel the pressure in the debate,” lamented Farstad. “We’ve got members that have been threatened with murder. There is also a lot of hate in the debate on both sides. We try to say that wolf hunting isn’t a question of if you are against wolves just as moose hunting is not a matter of if you are for or against moose. We are a management tool and we are doing this job for the government.”<br />
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Ketil Skogen, a sociologist with NINA, said that wolf conservation is also about cultural issues and that it has “become a strong symbol of something else.”<br />
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“It has to do with a change in values for land management and resource use, tilting more towards restrictions on economic use of land and the conservation of problematic carnivores,” he said<br />
For many Norwegians, the outback can offer economic gain through constant harvesting. But for others, it represents a natural heritage in need of protection for future generations. Wolves only belong in one of these scenarios.<br />
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Wolves are said to mate for life, but it is a contentious claim, with some suggesting that while they are relatively loyal animals, it is also perfectly normal for an alpha male to mate with more than one female.<br />
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Finland's recent announcement that it is planning to continue its policy of a managed wolf cull, provoked outrage among conservationists who say we can live in harmony with the animals. But can we?<br />
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<i>"There once was a shepherd boy who was bored as he sat on the hillside watching the village sheep. To amuse himself he took a great breath and sang out, "Wolf! Wolf! The Wolf is chasing the sheep…"</i><br />
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Thus begins the Aesop's Fable that ends in tragedy for the sheep and a full stomach for the wolf. Penned as a warning not to tell lies, it may, over time, have stopped fibbers from twisting the truth, but it also - along with a catalogue of other stories, poems, songs and cartoons - almost doubtless played some role in condemning the grey wolf to decades, indeed centuries of loathing and persecution.<br />
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Hunted to extinction in central Europe more than a century ago, it is only in more recent years that they have begun to make their way back to countries such as Germany, France and Switzerland. But in many places, that return has been decidedly unwelcome.<br />
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Gabriel Schwaderer of the <a class="icon external" href="https://www.euronatur.org/" target="_blank">EuroNatur</a> Stiftung says there is an unnecessary degree of hysteria surrounding the reappearance of the reviled grey wolf, a fact he attributes to the trappings of contemporary existence.<br />
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"We have completely lost knowledge of the behavior of these animals, and most people think they are terribly dangerous," he told DW, adding that despite the scaremongering about wolves attacking people, he does not regard them as a "real threat." Less so, in fact than their cousins, domestic canines.<br />
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"Every year children in Germany are killed by dogs, but nobody says there should be a dog cull because of it."<br />
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The counter argument is that there are a great many more dogs than wolves in the country, and that the situation might be very different if their numbers were on a par. Not that it is a scenario we are likely to see, for although Canis lupus is making a comeback, it's population growth is closely monitored.<br />
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Perhaps nowhere more than in Finland, which has just announced its intention to continue with a controlled killing of the country's 200 plus wolves. Unsurprisingly, the decision met with harsh criticism from conservation circles, who point out that the grey wolf is protected under European Union legislation.<br />
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But Sami Niemi, Advisor to Finland's <a class="icon external" href="http://mmm.fi/en/frontpage" target="_blank">Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry,</a> says it has thus far proved to be the most effective way of helping the population to recover from the "collapse" it suffered in light of a 2006 ruling to tighten hunting regulations.<br />
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However illogical that might sound, he explains that prior to the passing of the new law, Finland boasted some 30 wolf packs. "By 2010, we only had ten packs left," Niemi said. That amounted to 120 animals, which for a country that lives in harmony with 1,500 bears and a 3,000 strong lynx population, is strikingly low.<br />
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The problem, he believes, can be related back to the same negative perception found elsewhere in Europe. Indeed in Finland, the wolf is seen as a pest, and a dangerous one at that. So when, in 2006, people were told they would no longer be able to hunt with the same abandon, they felt they had lost control over their own safety.<br />
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"The frustration among people in rural Finland caused an increase in illegal killing," the advisor said. "And that caused the collapse of the population."<br />
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The government responded to the development with several measures, including slapping unlawful hunters with fines of up to 9,000 euros and criminalizing the practice. "If someone gets caught killing a large carnivore illegally, they can be put in prison for between four months and four years."<br />
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"We had a two year experiment of issuing more licenses to hunt young individuals," Niemi continued. "We did not aim to kill alpha individuals because we want to secure the livelihood of the pack, while taking into consideration fear and concerns of rural people." Fear both for themselves and their livestock.<br />
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He says giving back some degree of sanctioned control has led to a drop in illegal killings, and therefore sees the cull as a solution to the "social conflict" that prevents the growth of the Nordic country's wolf population - which is what the ministry is ultimately striving for.<br />
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Yet even if the strategy is successful, there are serious question marks over the concept of allowing the slaughter of an animal that is protected and whose<a class="icon external" href="https://www.euronatur.org/ueber-uns/kernthemen/?gclid=CjwKEAiA0pDBBRCFtoPyguTh8AUSJADNWeuxvWg8ZjyYN-TjfV_diy84XT5mqyjBkFn99zbb9Y_aeRoC5Nbw_wcB" target="_blank">numbers</a> in many European countries are still so low.<br />
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Schwaderer of EuroNatur says societies and their farmers need to rethink the way they look at and deal with wolves as opposed to simply going out and shooting them.<br />
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"There is no scientific evidence that hunting wolves has an impact on damage reduction," he said, adding that it makes more sense to take a preventative approach to living with the predators. "They are opportunistic animals and if they can have a free lunch, they will take it."<br />
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By that, he refers to the modern methods of sheep farming, in which owners leave their flocks unattended for several days at time, and as such, the door wide open for wolves to take their pick.<br />
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He advocates the use of electric fences and guard dogs, for which farmers could apply for state-supported funding, and a return to the days of old, in which it was commonplace for a shepherd to sit with animals. Rather more diligently than Aesop's protagonist.<br />
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Wolves have been depicted over time as ferocious animals that prey on people, and children in particular. Conservationists say there is no reason man can't live in peace alongside wolves.<br />
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Legend has it that wolves howl at the moon, but scientists refute this claim, saying they actually just lift their heads because it enables the sound to carry better. The animals are known to howl in order to assemble their pack, attract a mate, mark territory, scare off enemies, signal alarm, or communicate their position.<br />
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Wolves don't only live in packs, they also hunt as a team. While a single wolf can catch and kill smaller deer or mammals by itself, if they work together, they can prey upon larger animals such as moose or elks.<br />
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A wolf that has been driven from the pack - maybe as a result of sickness or weakness - or decides to leave by itself, is known as a lone wolf. These animals are said to howl less as a means of keeping themselves off the radar of other nearby packs.<br />
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Wolves are travelers, covering areas of between 30 to 50 km per day, and more if they don't find food. Their territories range in size, depending on the size of the pack and the density of prey within it, but average between 150 and 300 square km.<br />
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On average, wolves give birth to litters of between 6 and eight pups. They are born in dens which the pack's alpha female chooses during the 63-day gestation period. The babies are weaned after eight weeks, when they begin eating solids in the form of regurgitated food from the adults. <br />
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Wolves live in packs of between six and ten animals. The hierarchy is strict, with each pack headed by dominant alpha male. He, and his mate, the alpha female, are the only animals in the pack that breed, but all the adults help to take care of the pups.<br />
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