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A new podcast wants to create a mutual understanding between both sides of the working lands and wildlife conservation debate in the West. The first season focuses on wolves.
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A new podcast from Montana State University Extension and the Western Landowners Alliance digs into the controversy of wolves. Co-host Alex Few said “Working Wild University” is for those who are passionate about open spaces and wildlife in the West and the healthy communities that sustain people and wildlife in the West. She told Wyoming Public Radio’s Kamila Kudelska that those values are not understood everywhere.
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Colorado officials say that three wolves recently shot and killed in Wyoming may be a part of the North Park wolf pack. The pack made headlines last winter after giving birth to Colorado’s first known litter of pups in 80 years.
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Warmer falls have made hunting harder, especially elk. This is affecting the Wyoming Game and Fish Department managing elk.
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A new study looked at livestock deaths in states like Wyoming, Montana and Idaho that were presumed to be from wolves. It found that the data was woefully inadequate.
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The decades-long debate continues regarding whether wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains should be federally protected.According to several conservation groups, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) was supposed to decide whether wolves in the Northern Rockies should have endangered species protections or not by May 2022, due to a petition the groups filed. The groups are now suing the agency to force a decision.
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This week the Wyoming Game and Fish Department released a report on the status of gray wolves in the state. While conservation groups have expressed concern about how aggressive hunting practices may be threatening wolf populations in Idaho and Montana, Wyoming's numbers are well above required population numbers. Game and Fish said that the state has a minimum population of 314 wolves, well above the 100 wolves and ten breeding pairs required by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Ken Mills is the lead wolf biologist for Game and Fish and he joined Bob Beck to discuss the numbers and their accuracy.
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Across the West, women are changing the ways land and livestock are managed. Ashley Ahearn saddled up for the Mountain West News Bureau to chronicle their big dreams – and daily challenges. This is the first story of a three-part series.
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Gray wolves across nation are under federal protections again but not Wyoming, Idaho, Montana wolvesIn 2020, the Trump administration delisted all of the gray wolves in the U.S. that were not already delisted. That included wolves in the Great Lakes and the western portions of Washington, California and Oregon. But in a new ruling on Feb. 10, the judge said that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service failed to show that wolf populations were sustainable without protection under the Endangered Species Act.
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After an Associated Press article reported that hunters have killed 20 Yellowstone National Park wolves that wandered from the park's boundary this season, environmental organizations are calling on the federal government to relist gray wolves in the northern Rockies on an emergency basis.