Sentences with phrase «wolves in»

Federal officials in 2017 killed 56 wolves in Idaho due to attacks on livestock.

But the reintroduction of wolves in the American West in the 1990s has led to questions about whether those breeds are up to the task.

January 1, 1999 — After livestock - industry groups sued the Service in 1998, demanding the removal of all wolves in the wild, the Center soon intervened on the side of the government and the industry suit was dismissed the following year.

January 12, 1998 — The Service published a final rule declaring the Mexican gray wolf a nonessential, experimental population, allowing for the take of wolves in the wild.

February 6, 2013 — A census conducted by federal, state and tribal agencies showed that pup births boosted the number of Mexican gray wolves in the wild for the third year in a row, up from 58 wolves in 2011 to to 75 wolves, including 38 in New Mexico and 37 in Arizona.

June 30, 2010 — A Center settlement with the Fish and Wildlife Service required the agency to respond by July 31, 2010 to our August 2009 petition asking for recognition of the Mexican gray wolf as an endangered species separate from gray wolves in the rest of the country.

February 2016 — A census by federal and state biologists announced that the number of endangered Mexican gray wolves in the wild in Arizona and New Mexico had dropped to 97 in 2015 from 110 in 2014.

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.

Unfortunately this means there's little genetic diversity flowing into the fledgling wild wolf population, which compromises the ability of the 58 wolves in Arizona and New Mexico to grow healthily and sustainably.

Mexican wolves were reintroduced in Arizona and New Mexico in 1998 and were projected to increase to 102 wolves in the wild, including 18 breeding pairs, by the end of 2006.

SILVER CITY, N.M. — Pup births boosted the number of endangered Mexican gray wolves in the wild in the Southwest for the third year in a row, according to a new census conducted by federal, state and tribal agencies.

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.

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 latest science shows that wolves in the Great Lakes suffer from hybridization with coyotes, disease, illegal shootings and vehicle kills.

In September and December 2014, two federal court rulings prompted by lawsuits filed by the Center and other allies restored federal protections to wolves in Wyoming and in the western Great Lakes states, with the judges in each case finding that in stripping protections for wolves the Fish and Wildlife Service violated the Endangered Species Act.

A year later members of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced a bill that would strip federal protections from wolves in the Great Lakes region and Wyoming with language preventing any further judicial review — overruling two court decisions finding that the Fish and Wildlife Service had wrongly removed Endangered Species Act protections for the wolf.

We have also stood up for protection of the growing but still vulnerable population of wolves in Washington, Oregon and California.

Since then we have helped publicize the slaughter of northern Rockies wolves, as part of a long - term strategy to pressure Congress to rescind the harmful rider, and filed a lawsuit that was successful in restoring «endangered» protections to wolves in Wyoming, where the 2011 rider does not apply.

A snow leopard will not defend its food but will give it up to wolves in the same way a cat will usually give up to a dog.

«We found that while hybridisation has not compromised the genetic distinctiveness of wolf populations, a large number of wild wolves in Eurasia carry a small proportion of gene variants derived from dogs, leading to the ambiguity of how we define genetically «pure wolves».

Nearly 15 years after Mexican wolves were first reintroduced to the Southwest, there are only 58 wolves in the wild; it has been four years since a new wolf was released from captive - breeding facilities.

California is now home to its first confirmed family of wolves in nearly 100 years: The Shasta pack, so named because this wolf family was identified and confirmed in August 2015 to be establishing territory in Siskiyou County, home to majestic Mount Shasta.

Mexican wolves are currently protected as endangered along with all other wolves in the lower 48 states, with the exception of those in the northern Rocky Mountains and Great Lakes region.

The presence of grey wolves in German forests has little influence on the parasite burden of hunting dogs.

Red wolves and eastern wolves probably first appeared when early settlers hunted gray wolves in the eastern United States, says Doug Smith.

Wolves in the United States are protected by different laws depending on where they live.

SILVER CITY, N.M. — Pup births boosted the number of endangered Mexican gray wolves in the wild in the Southwest for the second year in a row, according to a new census conducted by federal, state and tribal agencies.

Reintroducing species into areas where they were extirpated is decades - old science (examples include wolves in Yellowstone, Elk in Kentucky, Beaver in Scotland).

Michael holds a master's degree in literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a bachelor's from the University of Texas at Austin; he is also the author of a well - reviewed book on the history of wolves in the United States called Predatory Bureaucracy: The Extermination of Wolves and the Transformation of the West (University Press of Colorado, 2005).

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

Posted June 4 at arXiv.org, the new study finds that interbreeding between dogs and wolves after domestication has made wolves in certain locations seem more closely related to dogs than they actually are.

Other scientists are disguising themselves, like wolves in sheep's clothing, and learning what it takes to cheat all sorts of animals.

«The survival of red wolves in the wild is threatened by interbreeding with coyotes, and we found that the howling behaviour of the two species is very similar.

There is a widespread misunderstanding that I would like to clear up — «consultants are lone wolves in a dog - eat - dog society.»

Her results show that the wolves in these states are now genetically distinct from the grey wolves which populated the area before humans cleared the forests (Biology Letters, DOI: 10.1098 / rsbl.2007.0354).

FWS released the first Mexican wolves in 1998, designating the animals as an «experimental population» under the ESA in order to give the agency more legal latitude in managing the animals.

The federal government wiped out Yellowstone's wolves in the 1920s, and elk soon browsed trees and shrubs down to short, stubby forms.

Besides providing meat for their ecological neighbors, wolves in Yellowstone are credited with bringing back aspen to sites where elk, which typically browse saplings down to ground level, now feel vulnerable, says Elbroch.

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.

State employees will trap and shoot up to 75 per cent of the wolves in a region southwest of Fairbanks, and then keep wolf numbers at that low level for the next few years.

For 60 years there had been no wolves in Yellowstone National Park.

Opponents, however, are calling the bills wolves in sheep's clothing.

(Reuters)- A U.S. judge restored federal protections to wolves in Wyoming, at least temporarily, in a victory for wildlife conservationists that was sure to draw criticism from ranchers and hunters who see wolves as a threat to livestock and big - game animals.

Jennifer A. Leonard of the Smithsonian Institution and her colleagues investigated the origins of dogs in the New World to try to determine whether they arose independently from wolves in the area or if they were tied to their Old World counterparts.

A controversial plan to kill Alaska's wolves in an attempt to rebuild the state's dwindling herds of caribou has been revived.

The reintroduction of wolves in Yellowstone National Park had an unanticipated, positive effect on the bear population by making more berries available.

A doe burst out of the forest and tore across the meadow, two wolves in close pursuit.

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game plans to have more than half the wolves in this area trapped and shot this year, and to keep the number of wolves at this level for the next three years.

Sharon Levy wrote that before 2001, wolves in Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada, «would seldom take down a moose»,...

The center houses about 15 mongrel dogs and seven small packs of timber wolves, with two to three wolves in each pack.