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Wolf News


12-2011 Alberta Man harvests 4 wolves and provides tips to Idaho hunters

10-12-2011 Idaho Grandmother Becomes The Hunted In Idaho Wolf Attack (Video)

11-10-2011 KXLX Wolf video discusses wolf trapping beginning 11-15-2011 (See article here)

8-3-2011- Malloy upholds delisting of wolves in Montana and Idaho

6-8-2011 Bruce Babbitt blasts decision to delist wolves in Idaho

6-5-2011 USDA wolf survey raises some concerns, 4,437 head of cattle were lost to wolves across Wyoming, Montana and Idaho in 2010.

6-5-2011 Has twilight come for America's wolves?

6-3-2011 Washington Revises Wolf Plan For Public Review; Goal Is 15 Successful Breeding Pairs -(Plan)

6-3-2011 Alarmed WA hunters doing the math on wolf program, claiming state staffers are "wolf lovers", intent on getting as many of the predators in this state as possible. 

6-3-2011 Wolves Face Open Season After Protections Stripped by Budget Bill

5-25-2011 Wolves recovered, myths persist

5-23-2011-Wolves killing fewer cattle in Wyoming than in Montana, Idaho

6-25-2011-Elk City, ID, Attempts to kill wolves are showing few results

5-17-2011-Elk City, ID, Party's over for Elk City wolves as kill permits are issued!

5-9-2011 Dr. Valerius Geist Addresses Boone & Crocket on Hydatid Disease

1-2011 Elk City, ID wolves moving into town after elk, citizens worried, dogs killed

5-10-2011-How many wolves are just right in Idaho? Virgil Moore claims we need 518 to 732!

5-4-2011 Obama administration takes wolves off endangered species list1

1-22-2011 Stevensville, MT landowners say wolves driving elk herd onto properties

1-19-2011 Siberian hunters chase 400-strong wolf pack

1-6-2011 Group tries to force national wolf recovery

1-5-2011 Wildlife Services Wolf Management Plan for Idaho

1-4-2011 The Source of the Harmless Wolf Myth..By Dr. Valerius Geist

1-3-2011 Living with Wolves and No Right of Protection

12-29-2010 Considerations for Developing Wolf Harvesting Regulations in the Contiguous United States by David Mech

12-29-2010- Why Hunting-Trapping is Best Plan to Manage Gray Wolf Populations, Jim Hammill -- International Wolf Magazine

12-14-2010 Study to use thermal imaging cameras to study mange in park wolves

12-11-2010 Feds want to turn species management over to the states

12-9-2010 Wolves kill 27 sheep near Ulm, MT

12-9-2010 Video: Interview With Idaho Woman Who Encountered Wolves In Her Yard

11-26-2010 The myth of the harmless wolf, Dr. Valerius Geist

11-18-2010 U.S. District Judge Johnson:  USFWS rejection of Wyoming Wolf Management plan was arbitrary and capricious ----------------(Click here for PDF of decision.

9-8-2010 Idaho Governor Otter tells Feds he is ready to walk away from Wolf managment

Alaska Wolf Control does Work

Message from our frustrated Montana Ranchers!

According to Suzanne Stone, wolf expert from Defender of Wildlife, on 8-17-2005 she quoted that the wolf "success has produced a genetically strong, healthy wolf population-"The population is amazing," Stone says. "It's turned around so much, you can find wolves all over the wilderness areas and government land."

Defenders of Wildlife admits that predators limit game populations in the recent article, "The Lost Frontier In Alaska's war on predators, politics trumps science". ----Dr. Charles Kay writes a preface to this.

8-18-2010 Idaho Fish And Game Commission’s Bark With No Bite!

8-12-2010: Montana sportsmen group asks state to control wolves with the 10j rule.

8-6-2010: U.S. judge's decision overrules Utah's wolf management plan

8-6-2010: Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Calls on Congress to Reform Endangered Species Act

8-5-2010: Arizona-based Center for Biological Diversity wants wolves on every doorstep!

8-5-2010-Judge orders wolves back on Endangered Species List (See Ruling here)

2-27-2010: Lolo Zone elk herd dwindling fast due to wolves

2-26-2010 Sun Valley residents concerned about wolves entering town

2-17-2010 Living With Wolves: The Cost for Ranchers

IDFG Commissoner Randy Budge admits wolves have had a devastating impact on elk numbers!

Gray wolves killed 1 stock animal per day in MT during 2009!

1-21-2010 Utah lawmaker puts wolves in his crosshairs

12-2009 Wolves decline in Yellowstone, due to canibalism and loss of prey base (USA Today)

Montana 2009 wolf season recap

12-10-2009: George Dovel's newest "Outdoorsman", Provides the most comprehensive wolf information to date. Dr Val Geist provides new information.

9-24-2009 Alaska: Predator reduction increasing moose, caribou populations

9-23-2009; Great Lakes Wolves placed back on the Endangered Species act once again!

 Who’s Eating Alaska’s Moose?

9-14-2009: Sarah Palin was right: Herds rebound under predator control

9-3-2009: Hunter badmouthed and harrassed over legal wolf harvest

9-1-2009: Judge weighs wolf decision as Idaho hunters head out

8-28-2009: Wolves sport kill 120 sheep near Dillon, MT!........(Click here for Photos)

8-17-2009: Idaho announces a Fall Wolf hunt to harvest 220 wolves

8-2009: Dr. Valerius Geist, "When ignorance is bliss".

8-10-2009: 20 plus states have rejected the offer of taking any Idaho wolves!

The Wildland Project: What is it and how does it effect us??

Did Teddy Roosevelt See Different Wolves Than Historians Claim Existed Once In N. Rockies?

7-15-2009 Greater Yellowstone elk suffer worse nutrition and lower birth rates due to wolves

6-30-2009: Wolves, Wyoming, and Where We Go From Here, by Harriet Hageman & Kara Brighton

6-2-2009: Defenders of Wildlife and 12 other conservation groups file  lawsuit to reverse wolf delisting

YouTube video “North Yellowstone Wolf vs. Rocky Mountain Elk”

4-25-2009  “Big Bad Wolves”,  We’ve been taught that wolves are harmless to humans, What does Will Graves think?

4-24-2009; Oregon wolves kill 23 lambs in 2 nights!

4-14-2009: YouTube Video on Surplus Killing

Big game drop attributed to wolf pack increase 

Elk Survival Research Update 

Wolves Reducing Elk Populations in Montana 

The High Costs of Wolves 

Wolves, An Outfitters View (ESPN Story

Fish and Game: Number of domestic animals killed by wolves has increased 

Wolf impact on ungulate herds grows critical in Lolo-Selway country 

Winter Severity and Wolf Predation on a Formerly Wolf-free Elk Herd 

Yellowstone National Park's gray wolves impact elk 

Elk in Yellowstone are in trouble 

Indisputable Evidence that ELK are in TROUBLE!  

Relative risks of predation on livestock posed by individual wolves, black bears, mountain lions and coyotes in Idaho

Wolf Pack slaughters nearly 50 birds

Wolves kill 52 sheep near Burgdorf in 9-2003!