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A prediction, several years in the making, came true on Monday when an alliance of nearly a dozen conservation groups filed suit against the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Land Management, seeking to restore protections for gray wolves in Montana and Idaho, arguing that both states’ aggressive hunting policies imperils […] The post Groups go to court to get wolves relisted in Montana and Idaho appeared first on Daily Montanan.

Long-distance dispersal events help prevent genetic isolation and inbreeding

FIRST ON FOX: House Republicans on the Natural Resources Committee are probing the Biden administration over its efforts to protect the gray wolf species.

Wolves have long been a divisive species, particularly in rural areas where they can be a risk to both humans and livestock.

The endangered red wolf can survive in the wild, but only with “significant additional management intervention,” according to a long-awaited population viability analysis released Friday. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service also released an updated recovery plan Friday for “Canis rufus” — the only wolf species unique to the United States. It calls for spending nearly $328 million over the next 50 years to get the red wolf off the endangered species list.

Lawmakers Thursday afternoon considered a bill that would require the DNR to set a population goal for wolves despite a differing plan from the agency

Using a powerful torch, Aliki Buhayer-Mach momentarily drenches a nearby mountain top in light, straining to see if wolves are lurking in the shadows.She and her 60-year-old husband Francois Mach-Buhayer -- a leading Swiss cardiologist -- have settled in to spend the night watching over some 480 sheep grazing in the remote mountains near the Italian border.

In Germany, officials have issued a shoot-to-kill order for hybrid wold-dog pups, the product of a wold mating with a domestic dog. Officials say this is to protect local wolf populations.

The new study found that dog ancestry originated from at least two wolf populations. Dog ancestry has been a mystery for the scientific community, especially when it comes to specific genetic origin and manner of domestication.