Sentences with phrase «gray wolf»

Federal wildlife managers are investigating the deaths of two endangered Mexican gray wolves.

And eastern wolves and red wolves are just as closely related to gray wolves as they are to other members of their species.

That's a region where gray wolves no longer exist.

In contrast, the eastern wolf is mostly gray wolf, with about 50 % to 75 % of its genome assigned to that species.

Elsewhere, it's legal for hunters to kill gray wolves.

That protection has helped gray wolves to bounce back.

The counted number of adult gray wolves remaining in the wild in 2016 was 113.

Written into the genome of modern domestic dogs are the genetic footprints of the demographic and selective forces underlying their transition from ancestral gray wolves.

Washington, Oregon and Utah only have small populations of gray wolves.

February 17, 2017 — The Fish and Wildlife Service reported that the number of Mexican gray wolves in Arizona and New Mexico had increased by 16 animals, up to 113 wolves from 97 in the previous count.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has removed Endangered Species Act protection from gray wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains, including Idaho, Montana, eastern Oregon and Washington, and northern Utah.

With gray wolves of the USA about to be de-listed from endangered species act, the unethical hunters will have a field day.

November 28, 2012 — The Center filed suit challenging the Service's failure to respond to our 2004 petition calling for implementation of sweeping reforms in the management of the Mexican gray wolf population, which had by then grown by only three animals, leaving just 58 wolves in the wild.

Finally in 2015, following two federal court rulings, the Fish and Wildlife Service officially reinstated Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in Wyoming and the western Great Lakes, including Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and surrounding states.

«The Mexican gray wolf recovery program has been hamstrung from the start, and this new management rule doesn't go nearly far enough to fix the problem,» said Michael Robinson, a conservation advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity in Tucson, Arizona, in a press release.

In exchange for a vote on the energy bill, Dems gave up on a few of their other bills and allowed a bill delisting gray wolves from the endangered species list to go forward.

Now, a study of the complete genomes of 28 canids reveals that despite differences in body size and behavior, North American gray wolves and coyotes are far more closely related than previously believed, and only recently split into two lineages.

That's the contention of a new study that disputes the notion that Rocky Mountain gray wolves, which were reintroduced into the region in 1995, have turned the once peaceful area into a «landscape of fear.»

The news comes a few days after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced plans to remove gray wolves from the protected species list in the Western Great Lakes area, which includes Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin.

April 23, 1990 — The Center initiated the return of the Mexican gray wolf into portions of its historic range in the Southwest by suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Department of Defense.

Like modern gray wolves, dire wolves — which «are not made - up beasts for «Game of Thrones,»» Brown said — were predators that caught and killed prey with their jaws.

But what happens when a recouping pack of gray wolves make a meal of some livestock on public land?

November 22, 2013 — Numerous wolf supporters showed up in force in Sacramento at a hearing — one of only five scheduled nationwide — held by the Obama administration to take public comments on its proposal to remove Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves across most of the lower 48 states.

The endangered female gray wolf seen on the north rim of the Grand Canyon in the fall of 2014 is the same animal a hunter killed in Utah later that year, a new genetic analysis reveals.

The same story is at play in Europe and Australia, where the researchers examined the relationship between gray wolves and golden jackals, and dingoes and red foxes, respectively.

After years of political controversy, bureaucratic turmoil, and fluctuating populations, around eighty Mexican gray wolves roam the Southwest today, more than at any time since the government reintroduced them to the wild in 1998.

Domesticating dogs from gray wolves more than 15,000 years ago involved artificial selection and inbreeding, but the effects of these processes on dog genomes have been little - studied.

They and their collaborators began to study black and gray wolves living in Yellowstone National Park, first looking for differences in genes known to influence color in birds, mice, cattle, and other animals.

But when one female gray wolf wandered into Kentucky for the first time in 150 years, its return wasn't heralded as a welcome sign of the species» recovery.

December 26, 2012 — After Mexico released nine Mexican gray wolves near the U.S. border in the Sierra Madre — and since wolves from the northern Rocky Mountains could make their way south at any time — the Center filed a formal notice of intent to sue the Service over its decision to grant itself a «recovery permit» to live - capture endangered wolves that may enter New Mexico and Arizona from Mexico or the Rocky Mountains.

With a smaller number of males than females being involved in the formation of most breeds, this drastically differs from the breeding patterns in wild gray wolf populations where both sexes have similar contributions.

When a single gray wolf crossed into California in late 2011, four environmental organizations took leave of their senses.

Taylor Ranch lies at the heart of what its Web site describes as «a large intact ecosystem» bearing «a full complement of native large carnivores, including gray wolf, cougar, black bear, lynx, bobcat, coyote, wolverine, fisher, and otter.»

December 14, 2006 — The Center sued the Service for refusing to implement the recommendations of a scientific panel convened to assess the Mexican gray wolf reintroduction program two years earlier.

September 23, 2008 — Eastern Arizona's Apache - Sitgreaves National Forest, key Mexican gray wolf habitat, proposed a new policy requiring livestock owners to dispose of their own animals» carcasses when those animals died from causes unrelated to wolves.

November 20, 2009 — The Center filed a 60 - day notice of intent to sue the Service to compel a response to our August 2009 petition to list the Mexican wolf separately from other gray wolves.

They battle injuries, the elements — oh, and a pack of gray wolves stalking them as they try to keep warm and find shelter.

Under the new agreement gray wolves will be delisted in those states that have protection plans — where limited hunting will be allowed.

-- Peggy Marshall, Boise, Idaho This past March, a coalition of 10 conservation groups finally reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Interior regarding gray wolf recovery and management in the Northern Rockies.

The courtroom battle had raged since the Bush administration had announced in January 2009 its decision to take gray wolves — 66 of which were reintroduced to the region in 1995 after their forebears were wiped out by hunters and ranchers a century earlier — off of the Endangered Species List.

16 A team led by UCLA biologists concluded that small dogs descended from Middle Eastern gray wolves more than 12,000 years ago.

Wolf lovers and conservationists might shudder at the story of a man hunting down what we now know was one of the few remaining individuals of the Mexican gray wolf species in the wild.

This difference reflects the more recent arrival of coyotes to the Great Lakes area about 100 years ago, and that unlike in the American South, pure gray wolves still persist in the Great Lakes area.

The researchers found similarities in the genetic sequences that suggest that «ancient American and Eurasian domestic dogs share a common origin from Old World gray wolves.»

Since gray wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in the mid-1990s, they have been very successful — perhaps too successful.

But last March, amid considerable outcry from area ranchers, biologists loosed 14 Canadian gray wolves in three packs into the park as part of a larger plan to reintroduce the animal to the northern Rocky Mountains.

(Sec. 116) Requires Interior to reissue two final rules removing recovered gray wolves in Wyoming and the Great Lakes from the endangered species list.

Over the past 200 years, coyotes have dramatically expanded their range into eastern North America, probably as a result of the eradication of competing gray wolves and creation of suitable habitat for both coyotes and white - tailed deer by agriculture and rural landscape changes (Gompper 2002).

«The wolf part of their genome might actually represent the last of the southeastern gray wolf,» she says.